World’s Billionaires 2017: Dangote, Adenuga Soar, Amazon CEO Reigns
Forbes 2017 world’s billionaires list has been released which briefly had Amazon CEO as the richest man with a fortune of over $90 billion, overtaking Bill Gates. In the list, President of the Dangote Group, Alhaji Aliko Dangote , saw his net worth increase by $162m to $16.2bn while the net worth of the Chairman of Globacom , Dr. Mike Adenuga , rose by $7m to $6.2bn. However, Africa’s richest woman, Folorunsho Alakija, who is the founder and Executive Chairman of Famfa Oil Limited, had her net worth unchanged at $1.6bn. The new king, Amazon CEO, who started selling books from his garage 22 years ago, had a net worth of over $89 billion as of the close of markets Wednesday, while Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates had a net worth of just over $90 billion. But on Thursday, Amazon’s stock slipped, in response to the company’s second-quarter earnings miss, and Bezos lost his top spot. However, the Amazon CEO remains fantast...