Nigeria’s business mogul, Alhaji Aliko Dangote, is the 43rd richest man on earth today, according to the 2013 list of world’s billionaires, compiled by Forbes Magazine. He is worth $16.1 billion, with assets from his cement, sugar, flour and other businesses. He is number one in Nigeria and Africa. LEADERSHIP recalls that Dangote was number [...]
Oprah, Diddy Atop Richest African-Americans List
January 16, 2013 | Posted by
The queen of television, Oprah Winfrey is the richest African-American and one of the most lucrative brands in the world. Winfrey tops the inaugural Forbes list of the wealthiest black Americans. She is the only African-American billionaire on the Forbes 2012 billionaires list. Black Entertainment Television founder Robert Johnson was the first African-American billionaire in 2000 [...]
Meet Aliko Dangote: The Richest Man in Africa.
December 31, 2012 | Posted by
If there is any one Nigerian who has been decorated extensively in the country and across the globe, it certainly has to be Aliko Dangote, the first non-politician or soldier to have achieved the nation’s high honour as Grand Commander of the Order of the Niger. Since Forbes named him the richest man in Africa [...]
Hillary Clinton, Michelle Obama Named Most Talked About Women in 2012
December 16, 2012 | Posted by
Content curator News360 ran the numbers to track the news-making women of 2012—from celebrities to politicians, what ladies dominated the news cycle this year? “We collect news stories all year long from more than 40,000 sources,” says News360 chief executive Roman Karachinsky. “Between the start of 2012 today that’s more than 50 million pieces of [...]
Brad Pitt: The Big Paydays are Over for Hollywood Stars
September 12, 2012 | Posted by
The days of the multimillion-dollar paycheck are over for Hollywood’s elite actors, according to none other than Brad Pitt. Pitt said the global economic recession has meant that studios aren’t raking in the same big bucks that they used to. So actors are having to take drastic pay cuts in order for movies to get [...]
Dr. Dre Leads List of Top Hip-Hop Money Earners
September 6, 2012 | Posted by
Atlanta Black Star reported last week that Dr. Dre was the top money earner in hip hop because of the sale of his headphones, according to the Forbes magazine annual list of the top-earning celebrities, but who else is on the list of the top 20 money earners in hip hop? The website Hypebot put [...]
Forbes: Oprah Winfrey Highest Paid Celeb for 4th Year in Row
August 28, 2012 | Posted by
For the fourth year in a row, Oprah Winfrey sits atop the Forbes list of the highest paid celebrities. All the cogs in the Oprah machine came out to $165 million of income between May 2011 and May 2012. Winfrey beat out super director Michael Bay by just $5 million, as Bay realized quite a [...]
Beyonce Makes Forbes List of World’s Most Powerful Women
August 24, 2012 | Posted by
Beyonce – She is undeniably talented, beautiful and sexy, but now you can add “powerful” to the list of adjectives used to describe Beyonce. The singer and new mom has earned a spot on the Forbes list of World’s 100 Most Powerful Women, coming in at number 32—primarily for all the work she does offstage [...]
Beyonce, Jay-Z Crowned Highest-Paid Couple by Forbes
August 7, 2012 | Posted by
Forbes released its annual list of highest-paid celebrity couples and Beyonce and Jay-Z were crowned as the highest paid dynamic duo. Albums released by both of R&B/hip-hop’s number one couple last year certainly helped bolster those numbers, with Jay-Z’s international tour also providing a substantial boost. The pair took home about $78 million last year, [...]
Top-Paid Athletes: Rivals Floyd Mayweather, Manny Pacquiao
June 19, 2012 | Posted by
In the last year, Floyd Mayweather Jr. has fought twice and made $85 million. Imagine if he took to the ring more — he’d be even farther ahead on the Forbes list of top-paid athletes. As it stands, Mayweather, who is serving an 87-day stint in a Las Vegas jail for a domestic charge, is [...]
