The Nigeria’s Minister of Agriculture,
Dr Akinwunmi Adesina has been nominated alongside Aliko Dangote, President of Dangote Group
and Jim Ovia, Chairman of Visafone Communications for the 2013 Africa Forbes
awards billed to take place in Nairobi, Kenya in December this year.
The Managing
Editor of Forbes Africa Magazine,
Chris Bishop in a public statement made available to DigitalSENSE Business News stated that the awardees comprises of three Nigerians, one South African and one Zimbabwean.
The
Nigeria’s Minister of Agriculture, Dr Akinwunmi
Adesina was nominated for his vision to make Nigeria a self-sustaining, food-producing
nation and to register 20 million
farmers by 2015; Aliko
Dangote, the Africa’s richest man
nominated for his net worth that
has significantly increased on the back of his continued business success,
allowing him to better the lives of millions;
while Jim Ovia who established
Zenith Bank Group in 1990 – now West Africa’s second largest financial services
provider, nominated for his focus that has
turned to helping grow Africa’s budding ‘techpreneurs’.
Others are South
African mining magnate, Patrice Motsepe, who was nominated for the plans on
giving away more than half his fortune over the next five years and Strive Masiyiwa who is the founder of global
telecoms group, Econet Wireless, nominated for his Capernaum Trust that educates tens of thousands of Zimbabwean
orphans.
DigitaSENSE
Business News gathered from the statement issued that “following
suggestions from Forbes Africa’s readers and social media audience, official
voting in the form of a poll on http://forbesafrica.com/
“Every year, we are excited to decide the Forbes Africa Person
of the Year. We want to honour the big hitters of the continent who are making
a difference in people’s lives and we hope that in doing so, it will inspire
others,” commented Chris Bishop.
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