Nigerian oil baroness Folorunsho Alakija is now the World's richest black woman.
According reports, Alakija is worth at least $3.3 billion taking of the position from Oprah Winfrey as the world’s richest black woman.
The 62-year-old started her career as a secretary at a Bank in Nigeria, but moved to England in the early 1980s to study fashion design. She then returned to her native country and set up a high-end label called Supreme Stitches.
Although she amassed some wealth from the label, a significant proportion of Alakija’s fortune comes from an oil-exploration license granted to her company Famfa Ltd. in 1993. The 617,000-acre oil block would go on to become the highly lucrative OML 127, in which Alakija’s family retains a 60% stake.
According to Ventures Africa, her assets include a real estate portfolio worth over $100 million and a $46 million private jet.
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Oprah is my number one role model in the whole wide world but OMG! Am loving this story!
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