China’s president, Xi Jinping tops the list of this year’s most powerful people in the world with Russia’s President Vladimir Putin coming at number 2.
Trumps follows closely with Pope Francis coming at number 6 and bill Gates number 7 with Nigeria’s Aliko Dangote coming as the number 66th.
See full list below…
| #1 | Xi Jinping | China | 64 | |
| #2 | Vladimir Putin | Russia | 65 | |
| #3 | Donald Trump | United States | 71 | |
| #4 | Angela Merkel | Germany | 63 | |
| #5 | Jeff Bezos | Amazon.com | 54 | |
| #6 | Pope Francis | Roman Catholic Church | 81 | |
| #7 | Bill Gates | Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation | 62 | |
| #8 | Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud | Saudi Arabia | 32 | |
| #9 | Narendra Modi | India | 67 | |
| #10 | Larry Page | 45 | ||
| #11 | Jerome H. Powell | United States | 65 | |
| #12 | Emmanuel Macron | France | 40 | |
| #13 | Mark Zuckerberg | 33 | ||
| #14 | Theresa May | United Kingdom | 61 | |
| #15 | Li Keqiang | China | 62 | |
| #16 | Warren Buffett | Berkshire Hathaway | 87 | |
| #17 | Ali Hoseini-Khamenei | Iran | 78 | |
| #18 | Mario Draghi | European Central Bank | 70 | |
| #19 | Jamie Dimon | JPMorgan Chase | 62 | |
| #20 | Carlos Slim Helu | America Movil SAB de CV (ADR) | 78 | |
| #21 | Jack Ma | Alibaba Group | 53 | |
| #22 | Christine Lagarde | International Monetary Fund | 62 | |
| #23 | Doug McMillon | Wal-Mart Stores | 51 | |
| #24 | Tim Cook | Apple | 57 | |
| #25 | Elon Musk | Tesla | 46 | |
| #26 | Benjamin Netanyahu | Israel | 68 | |
| #27 | Ma Huateng | Tencent Holdings | 46 | |
| #28 | Larry Fink | BlackRock | 65 | |
| #29 | Akio Toyoda | Toyota Motor | 62 | |
| #30 | John L. Flannery | General Electric | 56 | |
| #31 | Antonio Guterres | United Nations | 69 | |
| #32 | Mukesh Ambani | Reliance Industries Ltd. | 61 | |
| #33 | Jean-Claude Juncker | European Union | 63 | |
| #34 | Darren Woods | ExxonMobil | 53 | |
| #35 | Sergey Brin | Alphabet | 44 | |
| #36 | Kim Jong-un | North Korea | 34 | |
| #37 | Charles Koch | Koch Industries | 82 | |
| #38 | Shinzo Abe | Japan | 63 | |
| #39 | Rupert Murdoch | News Corp | 87 | |
| #40 | Satya Nadella | Microsoft | 50 | |
| #41 | Jim Yong Kim | World Bank | 58 | |
| #42 | Stephen Schwarzman | Blackstone Group | 71 | |
| #43 | Khalifa bin Zayed Al-Nahyan | United Arab Emirates | 70 | |
| #44 | Haruhiko Kuroda | Japan | 73 | |
| #45 | Abdel Fattah el-Sisi | Egypt | 63 | |
| #46 | Li Ka-shing | CK Hutchison Holdings | 89 | |
| #47 | Lloyd Blankfein | Goldman Sachs Group | 63 | |
| #48 | Recep Tayyip Erdogan | Turkey | 64 | |
| #49 | Bob Iger | Walt Disney | 67 | |
| #50 | Michel Temer | Brazil | 77 | |
| #51 | Michael Bloomberg | Bloomberg | 76 | |
| #52 | Wang Jianlin | Dalian Wanda Group | 63 | |
| #53 | Mary Barra | General Motors | 56 | |
| #54 | Moon Jae-in | South Korea | 65 | |
| #55 | Masayoshi Son | Softbank Corp. | 60 | |
| #56 | Bernard Arnault | LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton | 69 | |
| #57 | Justin Trudeau | Canada | 46 | |
| #58 | Robin Li | Baidu | 49 | |
| #59 | Michael Dell | Dell | 53 | |
| #60 | Hui Ka Yan | Evergrande Real Estate Group | 59 | |
| #61 | Lee Hsien Loong | Singapore | 66 | |
| #62 | Bashar al-Assad | Syria | 52 | |
| #63 | John Roberts | United States | 63 | |
| #64 | Enrique Pena Nieto | Mexico | 51 | |
| #65 | Ken Griffin | Citadel LLC | 49 | |
| #66 | Aliko Dangote | Dangote Group | 61 | |
| #67 | Mike Pence | United States | 58 | |
| #68 | Qamar Javed Bajwa | Pakistan | 57 | |
| #69 | Rodrigo Duterte | Philippines | 73 | |
| #70 | Abigail Johnson | Fidelity Investments | 56 | |
| #71 | Reed Hastings | Netflix | 57 | |
| #72 | Robert Mueller | United States | 73 | |
| #73 | Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi | Islamic State | 46 | |
| #74 | Joko Widodo | Indonesia | 56 | |
| #75 | Gianni Infantino | FIFA | ||
In a video making waves on social media platforms, Nigerians have reacted with mixed feelings…
A popular Nigerian TikToker identified simply as Seaking has been arrested by operatives of the…
Throughout history, some individuals have endured extraordinarily long prison sentences, with their stories reflecting the…
There is growing tension in Modakeke, Osun State, following the alleged arrest of two lovers,…
A victim of the stampede that occurred in Ibadan, Oyo State capital, which has claimed…
The vibrant Osun State is no stranger to captivating events and headlines that draw attention…
This website uses cookies.