View Full Forbes List: Aliko Dangote, 64th Most Powerful In The World

[Shola Sholaz]

Forbes has named Nigerian billionaire, Aliko Dangote as the 64th most powerful person in the world. As of March 2013, Dangote has an estimated NET worth of $16.1 billion. He is owner of multibillion Naira company Dangote Group.
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The list which highlights 72 people was chosen with four main criteria:
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(1) How many people they have power over (2) The financial resources they control (3) If they have influence in more than one sphere and (4) How actively they wield their power to change the world.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin ranks at the top of the list displacing US President Barack Obama who fell in second place.
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Read below the full list...
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1. Vladimir Putin
2. Barack Obama
3. Xi Jinping
4. Pope Francis
5. Angela Merkel
6. Bill Gates
7. Ben Bernanke
8. Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud
9. Mario Draghi
10. Michael Duke
11. David Cameron
12. Carlos Slim Helu & family
13. Warren Buffett
14. Li Keqiang
15. Jeff Bezos
16. Rex Tillerson
17. Sergey Brin
17. Larry Page
18. Francois Hollande
19. Timothy Cook
20. Dilma Rousseff
21. Sonia Gandhi
22. Jamie Dimon
23. Ali Hoseini-Khamenei
24. Mark Zuckerberg
25. Jeffrey Immelt
26. Benjamin Netanyahu
27. Lloyd Blankfein
28. Manmohan Singh
29. Michael Bloomberg
30. Li Ka-shing
31. Charles Koch
31. David Koch
32. Ban Ki-moon
33. Rupert Murdoch & family
34. Khalifa bin Zayed Al-Nahyan
35. Christine Lagarde
36. Xuedong Ding
37. Enrique Pena Nieto
38. Mukesh Ambani
39. Haruhiko Kuroda
40. Ali Al-Naimi
41. Lee Kun-Hee
42. Larry Fink
43. Bill Clinton
44. Akio Toyoda
45. Masayoshi Son
46. Kim Jong-un
47. Elon Musk
48. Terry Gou
49. Martin Winterkorn
50. Jim Yong Kim
51. Lakshmi Mittal
52. Geun-hye Park
53. Dmitry Medvedev
54. Bernard Arnault & family
55. Bill Gross
56. Virginia Rometty
57. Shinzo Abe
58. Larry Ellison
59. Margaret Chan
60. Igor Sechin
61. Robin Li
62. John Roberts
63. Alisher Usmanov
64. Aliko Dangote
65. Reid Hoffman
66. John Boehner
67. Joaquin Guzman Loera
68. Jill Abramson
69. Joseph Blatter
70. Yngve Slyngstad
71. Mohammed Ibrahim
72. Janet Yellen

[Shola Sholaz]

[Folami David]

Congratulations to Aliko Dangote! This is a wonderful achievement....

[Folami David]