{"id":91082,"date":"2022-01-23T16:20:48","date_gmt":"2022-01-23T15:20:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=91082"},"modified":"2022-01-23T16:20:48","modified_gmt":"2022-01-23T15:20:48","slug":"dangote-now-richer-than-11-african-countries-gains-n748bn-in-three-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/dangote-now-richer-than-11-african-countries-gains-n748bn-in-three-weeks\/","title":{"rendered":"Dangote Now Richer Than 11 African Countries, Gains N748bn In Three Weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"m31639\" class=\"mail-message expanded\">\n<div class=\"mail-message-header spacer\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Aliko Dangote recorded a surge of 1.3billion dollars (748billion naira) in his fortune in the last three weeks, in a period that was a blessing to investment for shareholders of his cement firm, Dangote Cement Plc.<\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-content collapsible zoom-normal  \" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<div class=\"clear\">\nThis new dispensation for the Africa richest man made him richer than 11 African countries combined, the table below shows the Africa countries and their GDP according to Wikipedia<\/p>\n<p>Mauritania 9.16<br \/>\n38\u00a0 Togo 8.49 1,000.44<br \/>\n9\u00a0 Somalia 5.42 350.36<br \/>\n40\u00a0 Eswatini 4.52 3,965.43<br \/>\n41\u00a0 Sierra Leone 4.41 541.06<br \/>\n42\u00a0 Djibouti 3.65 3,654.5<br \/>\n43\u00a0 Liberia 3.38 703.41<br \/>\n44\u00a0 South Sudan 3.26 230.13<br \/>\n45\u00a0 Burundi 3.19 261.05<br \/>\n46\u00a0 Central African Republic 2.59 525.91<br \/>\n47\u00a0 Lesotho 2.48 1,187.51<br \/>\n48\u00a0 Eritrea 2.25 625.97<br \/>\n49\u00a0 The Gambia 2.04 746.33<br \/>\n50\u00a0 Cape Verde 1.89 3,346.55<br \/>\n51\u00a0 Guinea-Bissau 1.59 858.04<br \/>\n52\u00a0 Seychelles 1.29 13,140.37<br \/>\n53\u00a0 Comoros 1.28 1,390.06<br \/>\n54\u00a0 S\u00e3o Tom\u00e9 and Pr\u00edncipe 0.53<br \/>\nJoin any of these WhatsApp Groups to receive Prompt News Update on WhatsApp<\/p>\n<p>iR News Room 1<br \/>\niR News Room 2<br \/>\niR News Room 3<br \/>\nThe 11 African countries with the lowest GDP combined, are not as wealthy as the Africa Richest man Dangote. At $20.4 billion according to Bloomberg\u2019s Billionaires Index on Friday<\/p>\n<p>Dangote owes the latest rise in its fortune to the execution of the second tranche of the share buyback of his cement firm this week, which investors are betting will lift the valuation of the company further.<\/p>\n<p>Dangote Cement has so far yielded 11 per cent since the turn of the year, firming up its reputation as Nigeria\u2019s biggest company by market value at a market capitalisation of N4.9 trillion as of Friday.<\/p>\n<p>It contributes roughly half of Dangote\u2019s wealth, reaching its peak level of N265.7 per share since 2010 on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The mogul, Bloomberg reported, is among the 35 billionaires of the top 100 in the world that recorded an increase in their wealth in January. The most phenomenal advance was the jump by $13 billion to $89.5 billion in the riches of India\u2019s most affluent man, Gautam Adani.<\/p>\n<p>Dangote\u2019s wealth is on course to see a much greater boost later in 2022 when his $19 billion petroleum refinery project is expected to be delivered.<\/p>\n<p>The 650,000 barrels per day capacity refinery is said to be the largest single-train refinery in the world and is located on a vast expanse of land, about six times the size of Victoria Island.<\/p>\n<p>Dangote\u2019s investment ambition knows no bounds, and the industrialist has told the Financial Times his intention to buy an English football club when his refinery project is done and dusted. David Pilling, the Financial Times journalist who interviewed him on the subject in 2018, said Dangote talked of buying Arsenal \u201cas though discussing (buying) the latest model of iPhone.\u201d<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-footer spacer collapsible\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aliko Dangote recorded a surge of 1.3billion dollars (748billion naira) in his fortune in the last three weeks, in a period that was a blessing to investment for shareholders of&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":72862,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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