Bloomberg,
the renowned United States-based news media with bias for business and
financial news reporting has listed the President, Dangote Group, Aliko
Dangote, among the 50 world’s most influential personalities, ITRealms reports.
Others considered as primus inter pares in the world, ITRealms gathered, include CEOs, world
leaders as well as religious leaders. Expectedly, US President, Barack Obama;
German Chancellor, Angela Merkel; and Pope Francis made the list, with Dangote
ranked 41st.
According to information from Nairaland, Bloomberg stated that those on the list “build companies and assemble fortunes. They run banks, or hope to disrupt them. They shape economies and spread ideas. They manage money and wield the clout that goes with the billions of dollars they invest.”
On Dangote, Bloomberg stated, “Africa’s most successful businessman built his fortune in sugar, textiles and cement in his native Nigeria, where today he’s a political as well as a financial power broker. He’s expanding in other countries and may list his cement company in London.”
Paul Wallace of the media outfit wrote, “Dangote is feted like royalty. He has businesses ranging from cement to sugar to energy in a dozen sub-Saharan countries. He’s a fixture at elite gatherings such as the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. No African has ridden the continent’s halting march out of poverty toward potential prosperity as spectacularly as its richest person, the Nigerian industrialist, Aliko Dangote.
“Dangote’s clout extends beyond the boardroom and the high-flier dinner circuit. In March, as votes were tallied in Nigeria’s presidential election, Dangote, 58, served as an intermediary between the camps of the incumbent, Goodluck Jonathan, and the ultimate winner of the election, Muhammadu Buhari.”
Addressing a global audience at a Financial Times Africa Summit in London on Sunday, ITRealms also reports, Dangote had expressed confidence that Nigeria would weather the oil shock that had decimated government revenues if it stepped up the fight against corruption.
According to information from Nairaland, Bloomberg stated that those on the list “build companies and assemble fortunes. They run banks, or hope to disrupt them. They shape economies and spread ideas. They manage money and wield the clout that goes with the billions of dollars they invest.”
On Dangote, Bloomberg stated, “Africa’s most successful businessman built his fortune in sugar, textiles and cement in his native Nigeria, where today he’s a political as well as a financial power broker. He’s expanding in other countries and may list his cement company in London.”
Paul Wallace of the media outfit wrote, “Dangote is feted like royalty. He has businesses ranging from cement to sugar to energy in a dozen sub-Saharan countries. He’s a fixture at elite gatherings such as the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. No African has ridden the continent’s halting march out of poverty toward potential prosperity as spectacularly as its richest person, the Nigerian industrialist, Aliko Dangote.
“Dangote’s clout extends beyond the boardroom and the high-flier dinner circuit. In March, as votes were tallied in Nigeria’s presidential election, Dangote, 58, served as an intermediary between the camps of the incumbent, Goodluck Jonathan, and the ultimate winner of the election, Muhammadu Buhari.”
Addressing a global audience at a Financial Times Africa Summit in London on Sunday, ITRealms also reports, Dangote had expressed confidence that Nigeria would weather the oil shock that had decimated government revenues if it stepped up the fight against corruption.
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