Aliko Dangote, Mike Adenuga And 3 Other Nigerians Make 2015 Forbes World Billionaires List

According to 2015 Forbes list, Bill Gates remains the richest man in the world with a net worth of $79.2 billion and according to Forbes estimates, the following five Nigerians made the 2015 list of the world billionaires.

Aliko Dangote, with a net worth of $14.7 billion is Africa's richest man and 67th in the world. He made his fortune in cement, sugar and flour. 

In April 2014, months before oil prices plunged, he announced $9 billion in financing from a consortium of local and international lenders to construct a private oil refinery and fertilizer and petrochemical complex in the country. In August 2014 he said he would invest $1 billion in commercial rice farming and modern rice mills. His publicly traded Dangote Cement is also grabbing new markets in Africa, with $750 million in new plants planned for Kenya and Niger. 

His net worth tumbled from $25 billion in February 2014 as a result of a weaker Nigerian currency and a drop in demand for cement. He made his first fortune more than thirty years ago when he started trading commodities with a loan from his powerful uncle.

Mike Adenuga, with a net worth of $4.2 billion is Nigeria's second richest man and 393rd in the world through investments in mobile telecom and oil production. In 2003, he founded Globacom, which has more than 27 million subscribers in Nigeria, making it the second largest mobile phone network in the country after South African giant MTN. It also serves customers in Ghana and Republic of Bhenin. Adenuga is the founder of oil exploration firm Conoil Producing, which operates 6 oil blocks in the Niger Delta; about half of which produce oil. Adenuga made his first fortune trading lace and Coca-Cola after returning from his studies in the United States. He made key friendships with top Nigerian military personnel and earned lucrative state contracts along the way.

Folorunsho Alakija's first company was an upscale fashion label that catered to Nigeria's elite including the wife of the former military president, Ibrahim Babangida. This connection paid off: the president later gave Alakija's company a prospecting license for one of the most lucrative oil fields in Nigeria. The drop in oil prices dented the fortune of Alakija, one of just two women billionaires in Africa. Her current net worth is $2 billion and she's the 949th richest person in the world.

 Femi Otedola with a current net worth of $1 billion returns to Forbes' list of billionaires, as number 1741, for the first time since 2009 following a sharp rise in the share price of petroleum marketing company Forte Oil, despite the drop in oil prices in 2014. Otedola is the controlling shareholder of Forte Oil, with a 78% stake. The company owns gas stations and fuel storage depots and manufactures its own line of engine oils. Forte said its shares rose in 2014 due to new investments in power generation and distribution.

Abdulsamad Rabiu, a recent Nigerian billionaire who has a net worth of $1 billion runs BUA Group, a conglomerate active in flour milling, pasta manufacturing, ports and terminals management and sugar refining. The group stopped operations at its BUA Cement unit --a floating terminal that distributes cement - in 2013 because of what it calls "unfavorable government policy on imported bulk cement." In other words, high import duties. The group still operates two cement plants in Nigeria and reportedly spent $500 million for a new cement plant in Nigeria's Edo State that is expected to open in early 2015. Rabiu, the son of a businessman, set up his own business in 1988, importing rice, sugar and edible oils as well as iron and steel rods. He's also the 1741st richest man in the world, sharing a tie with Femi Otedola. 

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