{"id":13814,"date":"2024-01-10T09:37:58","date_gmt":"2024-01-10T09:37:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=13814"},"modified":"2024-01-10T09:37:58","modified_gmt":"2024-01-10T09:37:58","slug":"dangote-reclaims-top-position-on-forbes-as-africas-richest-person","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/01\/10\/dangote-reclaims-top-position-on-forbes-as-africas-richest-person\/","title":{"rendered":"Dangote Reclaims Top Position On Forbes As Africa\u2019s Richest Person"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;\">Nigerian businessman and philanthropist, Aliko Dangote, has reclaimed his position as the richest person in Africa, according to Forbes Real-Time Billionaires.<\/span><\/strong><\/h1>\n<p style=\"font-style: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14.0pt;\">Last week, South African business tycoon, Johann Ruper, took over the position from Dangote as African richest.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-style: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14.0pt;\">According to the ranking as of January 8, Dangote\u2019s net worth improved by $10 million to $10.1 billion while Rupert\u2019s net worth as of January 8 was $10 billion, down from $10.7 billion as of January 30, 2023.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-style: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14.0pt;\">Dangote, who is the head of Dangote Group, is ranked 191st on the Forbes list of rich people, while Rupert is ranked 197th worldwide.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-style: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14.0pt;\">The Nigerian businessman became Nigeria\u2019s first billionaire in 2007.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14.0pt;\">He reportedly added $9.2 billion to his personal wealth in 2013, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, making him the 30th-richest person in the world at the time and the richest person in Africa.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-style: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14.0pt;\">As of June 2022, he was the wealthiest person in Africa, with an estimated net worth of US$20 billion.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigerian businessman and philanthropist, Aliko Dangote, has reclaimed his position as the richest person in Africa, according to Forbes Real-Time Billionaires. Last week, South African business tycoon, Johann Ruper, took over the position from Dangote as African richest. According to the ranking as of January 8, Dangote\u2019s net worth improved by $10 million to $10.1 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":13818,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[529,528],"class_list":["post-13814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-dangote","tag-forbes"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13814"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13841,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13814\/revisions\/13841"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}