Fancy TV Channel have just rated and compiled up a countdown
of ten richest men and women in Nigeria as of the year 2015. The rating was set
based on the Real-time Forbes estimates of the richest personalities in Nigeria
and other credible net worth raters. some people's rating might have been
judged based on 2014's most recent rating due to the fact they have not
declared their assets and they haven't been looked into since then.
TOP 10 RICHEST PERSONALITIES IN NIGERIA 2015.
10] MOHAMMED INDIMI
AGE: 66
OCCUPATION: Oil Business
NET WORTH: $670 Million (2014).
Mohammed Indimi is the founder and chairman of Oriental
Energy Resources, Limited. This
company has interest in the oil sector, especially in the
Nigerian Upstream Oil and Gas sector. Mohammed Indimi founded his company in
1990 and has expanded the company’s portfolio that it now has assets in
Offshore Nigeria. These assets include the Ebok Field (OML 67), Okwok Field
(OML 67, and OML 115).
In the year 2014, Forbes listed Mohammed Indimi as the
Africa's number 37th richest man.
9] JIM OVIA.
AGE: 61
OCCUPATION: Banking Sector
NET WORTH: $850 Million (2014).
Jim Ovia is the founder of Zenith Bank Group, a bank he is
the largest individual shareholder with about 9.3% stake. He is also an
investor in real estate across Nigeria. His other assets include Visafone, a
mobile telecommunication outfit.
In August 2014, Jim Ovia commenced the construction of $1.5
billion petrochemical complex in Akwa-Ibom State Nigeria.Forbes listed Jim Ovia
as the 30th richest man in Africa in the year 2014.
8] ORJI UZOR KALU.
AGE: 55
OCCUPATION: Diversified
NET WORTH: $1 Billion (2014).
Orji Uzor Kalu is the chairman of SLOK Holding and the Daily
Sun and New Telegraph newspapers in Nigeria, who served as the governor of Abia
State, Nigeria from May 29, 1999, to May 29, 2007. Prior to his election, he
served as the chairman of the Borno Water Board and the chairman of the
Cooperative and Commerce Bank Limited. Kalu was also a member of the
Progressive Peoples Alliance (PPA) and the chairman of the PPA Board of
Trustees. He was the party's candidate for President in the April 2007 general election.
7] TONY O ELUMELU.
AGE: 52
OCCUPATION: Business Tycoon-Investment
NET WORTH: $1 Billion (2014).
Tony O. Elumelu is an economist by training, a visionary
entrepreneur and a philanthropist. Tony is the Chairman of Heirs Holdings, the United Bank for Africa, Transcorp and founder of The Tony
Elumelu Foundation. Elumelu holds the Nigerian national honours, the Commander
of the Order of Nigeria (CON) and Member of the Order of the Federal Republic
(MFR). In 2011
AGE: 55
OCCUPATION: Business Tycoon-cement, sugar, flour
NET WORTH: $1 Billion (2014).
AbdulSamad Isyaku Rabiu CON is a Nigerian businessman. His
father, Khalifah Isyaku Rabiu was one of Nigeria's foremost industrialists in
the 1970s and 1980s. Abdul Samad is the founder and chairman of BUA Group, a
Nigerian conglomerate with interests in manufacturing, infrastructure and
agriculture with a revenue in excess of $2.5 billion. He is also the chairman
of Nigerian Bank of Industry.
In 2013, Forbes estimated Abdul Samad's wealth at $1.2
billion, bringing him to the global billionaire's club.
5] FEMI OTEDOLA
OCCUPATION: Chairman of Forte Oil Plc
NET WORTH: $1.06 Billion (June 2015).
Femi Otedola is a Nigerian businessman. He is Chairman of
Forte Oil Plc, and appeared as one of only two Nigerians (alongside Aliko
Dangote) to appear on the 2009 Forbes list of 793 dollar-denominated
billionaires in the world, with an estimated net worth of over US$1.2 billion.
Femi Otedola is the Nigerian President and Chief Executive Officer of Zenon
Petroleum and Gas limited.
OCCUPATION: Bussiness Tycoon: Oil
NET WORTH: $1.1 Billion (June 2015).
General Theophilus Yakubu Danjuma GCON FSS psc is a Nigerian
Jukun soldier, politician and multi-millionaire businessman and philanthropist.
He was Nigerian Army Chief of Army Staff from July 1975 to October 1979. He was
also Minister of Defence under Olusegun Obasanjo. Danjuma is chairman of South
Atlantic Petroleum (SAPETRO).
3] FOLORUNSHO ALAKIJA
OCCUPATION: Business Tycoon: Oil and Printing industries
NET WORTH: $2.2 billion (June 2015).
Folorunsho Alakija is a Nigerian businesswoman who has
replaced Isabel dos Santos as the richest African woman, and also is the
richest woman of African descent in the world. She is a business tycoon
involved in the fashion, oil and printing industries. She is the group managing
director of the Rose of Sharon Group which consists of the Rose of Sharon
Prints & Promotions Limited and Digital Reality Prints Limited and the Executive Vice-Chairman of Famfa Oil Limited. Alakija is ranked by Forbes as
the richest woman in Nigeria with an estimated net worth of $2.6 billion as of
2015.
2] MIKE ADENUGA
OCCUPATION:Oil and Telecommunication
NET WORTH: $4.1 billion (June 2015)
Mike is a Nigerian business tycoon, and one of the richest
black people in the world. His company Globacom controls Nigeria's
second-largest telecom operator, he also owns stakes in the Equitorial Trust
Bank and oil exploration firm Conoil (formerly Consolidated Oil Company).
Forbes has estimated his net worth at $4.6 billion as of March 2013 which makes
him second wealthiest Nigerian behind Aliko Dangote.
1] ALIKO DANGOTE
AGE: 58
OCCUPATION: Food processing, cement
manufacturing, and freight.
NET WORTH: US$17.7 billion (June 2015)
Dangote is a Nigerian billionaire businessman, who owns the
Dangote Group, which has interests in commodities. The company operates in
Nigeria and other African countries, including Benin, Cameroon, Ghana, South
Africa, Togo and Zambia. As of January 2015, he had an estimated net worth of
US$18.6 billion.
Dangote is ranked by Forbes magazine as the 67th richest
person in the world and the richest in Africa. [ He surpassed Saudi-Ethiopian
billionaire Mohammed Hussein Al Amoudi in 2013 by over $2.6 billion to become
the world's richest person of African descent.
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