Nigeria’s first female minister of finance and the prime candidate for the office of the director-general of the World Trade Organisation, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has been named Forbes Africa Person of the Year 2020. She joins a list of eminent Africans to have received the award. Recall that In 2019, Akinwumi Adesina, president of the African […]
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Rihanna, who is just 31-year-old has officially been named the world’s richest female musician by Forbes. According to a new Forbes report published on Tuesday, the singer’s estimated assets is worth about $600 million, thereby placing her ahead of fellow music superstars as Madonna ($570 million), Celine Dion ($450 million) and Beyoncé ($400 million). This […]
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U.S. tennis star Serena Williams, has made history as the first athlete to make Forbes’ list of the World’s Richest Self-Made Women. According to the publication, the 23-time Grand Slam champion made the list as a result of her estimated fortune of $224m (£177m). The majority of William’s fortune has been made as a result […]
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Forbes Magazine has ranked American tennis Superstar, Serena Williams, as 79th world’s most powerful woman. It was the first time the former world number one would make the list. The magazine stated that the 23-time Grand Slam winner’s singles trophies and $18.1 million earnings in 2017, qualified her as one of the 20 new entrants […]
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U.S. Reality TV star Kylie Jenner is on track to become the youngest self-made billionaire in the United States thanks to the booming cosmetics company she launched two years ago, Forbes magazine reported on Wednesday. Jenner, 20, half-sister of Kim, Khloe and Kourtney Kardashian, debuted Kylie Cosmetics in 2016 with $29 lip kits containing matching […]
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Ace Nigerian entertainers, Davido, Wizkid and Falz have made the list of the 2018 Forbes Africa under-30 individuals that are making waves in their industries across the continent. Other celebrities across Africa that made the list are Sarkodie, Nasty C, Cassper Nyovest, Yemi Alade, Beverly Naya, Sonia Irabor, amongst others. The 2018 Forbes Africa under-30 […]
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The president of Dangote Group, Aliko Dangote, has been ranked by Forbes as the 66th most powerful person on earth, ahead of Mike Pence, US Vice-President. In the American business magazine’s 75-person list, Dangote clinched the second position in Africa, trailing President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi of Egypt, who was ranked 45th. Both men are the […]
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The Forbes magazine has named the Amazon founder and chief executive, Jeff Bezos, as the world’s richest man with 112bn dollar fortune. Bezos replaced the Microsoft co-founder, Bill Gates, who fell back into second place with $90bn. Forbes calculated that Bezos’s fortune, which is mostly held in Amazon shares, increased by 39.2bn dollars over the past year. The […]
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