{"id":251892,"date":"2016-09-25T18:09:27","date_gmt":"2016-09-25T18:09:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=251892"},"modified":"2016-09-25T18:09:27","modified_gmt":"2016-09-25T18:09:27","slug":"dangote-dismisses-malicious-reports-of-his-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=251892","title":{"rendered":"Dangote dismisses &#8216;malicious&#8217; reports of his death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Africa\u2019s richest man, Nigeria\u2019s Aliko Dangote has dismissed the reports of his death making the rounds on social media.<\/p>\n<p>A story by a German web portal, Dw-tv3.com, carried news of\u00a0Mr. Dangote\u2019s demise saying the 59-year-old had died\u00a0in Germany after a short illness\u00a0which was confirmed by his family.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday however, Mr. Dangote responded to this story and the numerous posts of shock on social media tweeting: \u201cI am hale, hearty and alive.\u00a0Please disregard malicious report saying otherwise. Thank you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/1626776779173_9438527495031.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-251893\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/1626776779173_9438527495031.png\" alt=\"1626776779173_9438527495031\" width=\"617\" height=\"280\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to Forbes, Aliko Dangote is the 67th richest person in the world and the richest in Africa with an estimated net worth of US$12.9 billion.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa\u2019s richest man, Nigeria\u2019s Aliko Dangote has dismissed the reports of his death making the rounds on social media. A story by a German web portal, Dw-tv3.com, carried news of\u00a0Mr. Dangote\u2019s demise saying the 59-year-old had died\u00a0in Germany after a short illness\u00a0which was confirmed by his family. On Sunday however, Mr. Dangote responded to this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":125814,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[107],"tags":[12037,3],"class_list":["post-251892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international","tag-aliko-dangote-death","tag-ghana-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=251892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251892\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/125814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=251892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=251892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=251892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}