Aliko Dangote Named Among World's 50 Most Influential People

                              

President of Dangote Group, Aliko Dangote has been named among world most influential people in the world by Bloomberg, a US news media that report on finance and Business.
Those that made the list are world leaders CEOs and religious leader as well,Pope Francis ,Barack  Obama, Angela Merkel are among world leaders that made the list,while Dangote ranked 41st in the list.


Bloomberg reports says, those who made the list   “build companies and assemble fortunes. They run banks, or hope to disrupt them. They shape economies and spread ideas. They manage money and wield the clout that goes with the billions of dollars they invest.”
On Dangote Bloomberg wrote  “Africa’s most successful businessman built his fortune in sugar, textiles and cement in his native Nigeria, where today he’s a political as well as a financial power broker. He’s expanding in other countries and may list his cement company in London.”

“Dangote is feted like royalty. He has businesses ranging from cement to sugar to energy in a dozen sub-Saharan countries. He’s a fixture at elite gatherings such as the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. No African has ridden the continent’s halting march out of poverty toward potential prosperity as spectacularly as its richest person, the Nigerian industrialist, Aliko Dangote.Paul wallace of Bloomberg wrote.