Showing posts with label Defeats. Show all posts
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Wednesday, October 9, 2013

Nigerian Female Billionaire Defeats Oprah Winfrey hands down To Become Richest African Woman In The World




Move over Oprah, Nigerian oil tycoon Folorunsho Alakija is currently the richest African woman on earth by having an estimated fortune of $7.3 billion.
Africa boasts 55 billionaires – far significantly more than previously thought – and they're worth a staggering $143.88 billion as a whole, according to pan-African magazine Ventures Africa.

Starting her career as a secretary in a bank in the mid 1970s, Alakija, 62, then studied fashion in London and returned to Nigeria to take up a label, Supreme Stitches. But her biggest break came in oil.

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