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Nigeria`s female billionaire, Folorunsho Alakija has made her Forbes Billionaire’s list debut.
Alakija who was already born into a family of wealthystudied fashion in London before going into the oil business in 1993.
Famfa Oil provides majority of her estimated $2.5bn fortune.
In 2013, the oil tycoon became the world’s richest black woman, knocking Oprah off the top spot.
This year, a total of 172 women made it on to the Forbes’ 28th annual billionaires’ list – 25 per cent more than last year.
As International Women’s Day will be celebrated on Saturday (Mar 8), it’s a timely triumph to announce that women now makes 10 per cent of the global super-rich.
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