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Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Thursday, stormed the Lagos Head Office of the Dangote Group.

The anti-graft agency’s operatives were carrying out a search on forex allocations to the company during the tenure of Godwin Emefiele as Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN.

EFCC spokesperson, Dele Oyewale, declined comments on the development.

However, a Dangote employee confirmed that EFCC operatives were at the company’s head office.

“They asked for documents on forex transactions with the CBN,” the employee said.

This is coming moments after the Kano billionaire’s status has dropped as Africa’s richest man by Forbes Magazine’s  Daily Billionaires Ranking platform.

Nigerian Billionaire, Aliko Dangote, has dropped as Africa’s richest man as his   wealth decreases by $4bn…thereby bequeathing the status to a South African billionaire, Johann Rupert and family.

Dangote’s wealth, it was gathered, decreased from $13.5bn in 2023 to $9.5bn at the start of the new year 2024 while Rupert and family also suffered dwindling wealth, but not as much as the Nigerian billionaire./PLEASE SHARE

*Tags: Aliko Dangote, Godwin Emefiele, EFCC