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Dangote, Adenuga gain as Bezos overtakes Bill Gates as world’s richest person

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By Boluwatife Ezekiel Olaleye
Africa’s richest, Alhaji Aliko Dangote saw his net worth increase by $162m to $16.2bn on Thursday as Amazon’s Jeff. Bezos overtook Microsoft’s Bill Gates to become the World’s richest man.
According to a real-time billionaires’ index compiled by Forbes, the net worth of the Chairman of Globacom, Dr. Mike Adenuga, also rose by $7m to $6.2bn.
The net worth of the Founder and Executive Chairman, Famfa Oil Limited, Mrs. Folorunsho Alakija, was unchanged at $1.6bn.
Bezos leapfrogged Gates, who has been the richest man on the planet since 2013, after a rise in the share price of Amazon ahead of its latest results due later on Thursday.
According to the Forbes’ index, the rise pushed the value of Bezos’s fortune to $91bn, compared with Gates’ wealth of $90bn.
But as Amazon shares fell back, Gates regained the top spot.

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