Dangote places number 51 on the richest person in the world and number one in Africa.
Dangote's networth according to Forbes rose from $14.7 billion in 2015 to $15.4 in 2016.
Forbes 2016 list contains 1,810 billionaires in dollars and four other Nigerians apart from Dangote made the list. These include, Dr. Mike Adenuga, Chairman of Glo; Femi Otedola, Chairman of Forte Oil; Mrs Folorunsho Alakija, Founder and Executive Chairman of Famfa Oil Limited; Abdulsamad Rabiu, Chairman/Chief Executive Officer of BUA Group.
Adenuga's networth was put at $10billion and he ranked 103rd in the global list.
Otedola was ranked 1,011th in the world and his networth stood at $1.8billion.
Alakija ranked 1,121th in the global list and her networth stood at $1.6 billion while
Rabiu ranked 1,577th billionaire in the world with a networth of $1.1 billion.
The Nigerian five billionaires had a total networth of $22.9 billion in 2015 but have increased it by $7billion to a total of $29.9 billion despite the economic crises in Nigeria.
Bill Gates remains the world's richest man in the world for three consecutive years in a row with a networth of $75billion in 2016, a decline by $4.2 billion as against 2015.
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