Nigerian oil tycoon Folorunsho Alakija 62, is now the world's richest black woman. Her estimated fortune is $7.3billion. According to Forbes Oprah Winfrey is worth $2.9 billion.
The Mother of four started her career as a secretary in a bank in the mid 1970's, she mentioned in one of her talk videos that she expected a promotion after she had done a banking course which she came 5th in, and moved in as a Treasury officer. She left the bank when university graduates were put above her.
She moved to England to study fashion design, following the completion she moved back to Nigeria and started her own fashion label, Supreme Stitches. But her biggest break came in oil.
In 1993, her company, Famfa Oil, was awarded an oil prospecting license, which later became OML, It's one of Nigeria's most prolific oil blocks, by persident Ibrahim Babangida.
The company owned 60 percent stake in the block until 2000 when the Nigerian government unconstitutionally acquired a 50 percent interest without duly compensating Alakija or Famda Oil.
In May 2012, Alakija challenged the acquisition and the Nigerian Supreme Court reinstated the 50 percent stake back to her company.
She also runs a charity called the Rose of Sharon that helps widows and orphans by empowering them through scholarships and business grants.
More power to your elbow, May your growth never run dry.
I am really indeed inspired by this and i pray we will all be great and rich in all areas of our different life's not necessarily pockets but wisdom is needed to do the right things in life. God will grant us the grace to take the right steps.
BE INSPIRED!!!
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Lovely...but video is incomplete :-(
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