Wealthy business woman, Mrs. Folorunsho Alakija, is now the
richest black woman in the world with an estimated fortune of $7.3 billion. The
62-year-old Alakija, unseats Oprah Winfrey as the richest black woman in the
world.
According to Forbes, Oprah Winfrey is worth $2.9 billion.
Africa boasts 55 billionaires and they’re worth a staggering $143.88 billion in
total, according to pan-African magazine Ventures Africa. Alakija started her
career as a secretary in a bank in the mid 1970s. She then studied fashion in
London and returned to Nigeria to start a label, Supreme Stitches, but her
biggest break came in oil.
In 1993, her company, Famfa Oil, was awarded an oil
prospecting licence, which later became OML 127, one of Nigeria’s most prolific
oil blocks. The company owns a 60-per-cent stake in the block, valued at around
$7.3 billion, Ventures Africa has reported.
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That's very cool
ReplyDeleteWow! Naija peeps are hustlers
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