Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote has been named by Forbes as one of the most influential and powerful persons in the world.
Dangote, the only Nigerian on the exclusive list, was 66th position on the list.
President of China, Xi Jinping clinched the first spot as number 1, while Donald Trump came third with Pope Francis ranked 6th.
The full list contains the following names:
1. Xi Jinping 2. Vladimir Putin 3. Donald Trump 4. Angela Merkel 5. Jeff Bezos 6. Pope Francis 7. Bill Gates 8. Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud 9. Narendra Modi 10. Larry Page 11. rome H. Powell 12. Emmanuel Macron 13.Mark Zuckerberg 14.Theresa May 15.Li Keqiang 16.Warren Buffet 17. Ali Hoseini-Khamenei 18. Mario Draghi 19. Jamie Dimon 20.Carlos Slim Helu 21. Jack Ma 22. Christine Lagarde 23. Doug McMillon 24. Tim Cook 25. Elon Musk 26. Benjamin Netanyahu 27. Ma Huateng 28.Larry Fink 29. Akio Toyoda 30.John L. Flannery 31. Antonio Guterres 32. Mukesh Ambani 33. Jean-Claude Juncker 34. Darren Woods 35. Sergey Brin 36.Kim Jong-un 37. Charles Koch 38. Shinzo Abe 39. Rupert Murdoch 40. Satya Nadella 41. Jim Yong Kim 42. Stephen Schwarzman 43. Khalifa bin Zayed Al-Nahyan 44. Haruhiko Kuroda 45. Abdel Fattah el-Sisi 46. Li Ka-shing 47.Lloyd Blankfein 48. Recep Tayyip Erdogan 49. Bob Iger 50. Michel Temer 51. Michael Bloomberg 52. Wang Jianlin 53. Mary Barra 54. Moon Jae-in 55. Masayoshi Son 56. Bernard Arnault 57. Justin Trudeau 58. Robin Li 59. Michael Dell 60.Hui Ka Yan 61. Lee Hsien Loong 62. Bashar al-Assad 63. John Roberts 64. Enrique Pena Nieto 65. Ken Griffin 66. Aliko Dangote 67. Mike Pence 68. Qamar Javed Bajwa 69. Rodrigo Duterte 70. Abigail Johnson 71. Reed Hastings 72. Robert Mueller 73. Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi 74. Joko Widodo 75. Gianni Infantino
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