Economy

Dangote named among 50 most influential people globally

Date: Dec 6, 2017

The President of Dangote Group, Aliko Dangote, has been recognised as one of the people who defined global business in 2017.

The Bloomberg 50 is a new, annual, multi-platform initiative that honours 50 icons and innovators who have changed the global business landscape in measurable ways over the past year.

Aliko Dangote was born on April 10, 1957. He is a Nigerian billionaire and owner of the Dangote Group, which has interests in commodities in Nigeria and other African countries, including Benin, Ethiopia, Senegal, Cameroon, Ghana, South Africa, Togo, Tanzania and Zambia. 

The first Bloomberg 50 honourees were selected by the Bloomberg Businessweek team after months of input from many of Bloomberg’s 2 700 journalists and analysts around the globe, leveraging the resources of the Bloomberg Terminal and represent the most influential thought leaders in business, finance, technology and science, politics and entertainment.

A statement on Tuesday quoted Dangote as saying, “I am very delighted with this selection and I see the recognition as a call to do more towards youth empowerment, job creation, better health for the people and economic emancipation of the African continent.”

As of February 2017, Dangote, according to Forbes Magazine, had an estimated net worth of $12.5bn, ranked as the 67th richest person in the world and the richest in Africa.

Bloomberg, in the preface written by Paul Wallace, said, “Dubbed ‘the quiet billionaire’ for his relatively frugal lifestyle, Dangote fast-tracked plans to help his country of 180 million people import less of what it eats. Dangote, who made his fortune in the cement industry, is turning his attention to dairy and sugar farming. He’s earmarked $800 million to buy 50 000 cattle in the hope of producing 500 million litres of milk annually by 2019.

“He’s also racing to finish a 650 000-barrel-a-day oil refinery near Lagos, set to be one of the world’s biggest, and says he intends to spend as much as $50 billion in the next decade on renewable energy and petrochemical refineries, including investments in the US and Europe. Which is all fine, but not quite his grand ambition: buying Arsenal, his favourite soccer team.”

--Punchng.com--

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