Dangote ranked among 100 most powerful people in the world

President of Dangote Group, Mr. Aliko Dangote, was at the weekend rated among the 100 most powerful people in the world by Forbes Magazine.

Dangote who was the only black person that made the list apart from president of the United States, Barack Obama,  was listed at number 71 just above the top Republican party contender for the US presidency, Donald Trump, who was listed at number 72.

Top of the list are:

Russian President, Vladimir Putin, placed at number -  1
Chancellor of Germany, Angela Merkel - 2
US President, Obama - 3
Pope Francis - 4
Chinese Prime Minister, Xi Jinping - 5
Bill Gates - 6
Warren Buffet - 13
Christine Lagarde of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 23
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un - 46
 Igor Sechin of Rosneft - 47
Ma Huateng - 48
President of Egypt, Abdel el-Sisi - 49

Last month, Dangote was named among the 50 world most influential personalities by Bloomberg.

The group of personalities chosen by the Bloomberg Market, consisted of CEOs, world leaders as well as religious leaders. As expected, Obama, Angela Merkel and Pope Francis made the list with Dangote at number 41.

According to Bloomberg, those on the list ''build companies and assemble fortunes.''