Check out Top 10 Richest People in Africa 2013 - Ventures

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Ventures Africa magazine has released their list of the top 10 Richest People in Africa 2013.

The combined fortune of Africa’s 55 billionaires is $143.88 billion. The average net worth of the members of this exclusive club is $2.6 billion, while the median age of the richest people in Africa is 65 years. The oldest billionaires are Kenyan industrialist, Manu Chandaria, and Egyptian property tycoon, Mohammed Al-Fayed, both aged 84. The youngest billionaires are Mohammed Dewji of Tanzania and Igho Sanomi, a Nigerian oil trader. They are both 38 years old.

Nigeria, South Africa and Egypt lead the pack with the highest number of billionaires at 20, nine and eight respectively. Algeria, Angola, Zimbabwe and Swaziland only have one billionaire each. In all, there are 10 African countries represented on the list.

Three women made it into the rankings. The richest of them is Folorunsho Alakija, a Nigerian fashion designer and oil tycoon worth some $7.3 billion by our estimates.

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Who made the US the policeman of the world? ('Notions of exceptionalism almost always end in tragedy' - analyst)

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"History shows that notions of exceptionalism almost always end in tragedy. But I think that is also a function of empire because how you’re going to justify the kinds of actions that the US takes around the world unless it can be couched within the rhetoric of freedom, within the rhetoric of liberty and within the context of so-called deep-promoting democracy. This is how the US does it," Eric Draitser, an independent geopolitical analyst based in New York City and the founder of StopImperialism.com, told The VOR

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"The only good migrant is a dead migrant" as Italy grants citizenship to Lampedusa dead. survivors remains illegal

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Letta meeting with Pope Francis on Friday (Photo: Palazzochigi)

"The only good migrant is a dead migrant", is that what they're saying? Italy grants citizenship to Lampedusa dead 

BERLIN - The death toll of the shipwreck near the Italian island of Lampedusa reached 194 over the weekend, as divers recovered more bodies from the sea.
The search continues, with about 200 migrants still missing, while 155 were rescued after their boat, which was carrying people mostly from Somalia and Eritrea, caught fire and capsized on Thursday (3 October).

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Nigeria set To Experience A Lunar Eclipse On October 19 & Solar Eclipse On November

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According to International Time U.T.C, A Lunar Eclipse will occur On October 19 and a solar eclipse will occur on November 3 2013 which will be visible in some parts of the World. It will be visble in some cities in Nigeria eg. Abuja, Ilorin, Kaduna, Lagos and other cities mostly in north central and west.  

Kindly send Photo(s) or Video(s) of the captured Eclipse to omooduarere@gmail.com
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Police Aggression: Nigerian Police kill 2 at Makinde area of Oshodi

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LAGOS—Angry youths at Makinde area of Oshodi, Lagos, yesterday, staged a protest over the death of one of them, Rafiu Adeniji, who was allegedly shot dead by a policeman attached to Agege area on Sunday.

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Dangote to chair World Economic Forum

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President, Dangote Group, Aliko Dangote, has been appointed a co-chair of next year’s annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos-Kloster, Switzerland.

The Executive Chairman, World Economic Forum, Prof. Klaus Schwab, in a letter inviting the business mogul to co-chair the sitting, said the WEF was of the belief that Dangote’s participation would contribute significantly to the substance of the discussions.

Schwab said in the letter, “The discussions aim to stimulate an unparalleled global dialogue among the relevant leaders from the government, business, academia, civil society and the media.

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How To Get A Woman To Sleép With You

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Wanting her in your béd doesn't have to wait until you two have serious relationship. Whenever she's ready, that's the most appropriate time to make it happen.

The key to understanding how to get women into béd lays in your ability to notice and decode her body language. Know that all women are different; a woman’s flirty attitude may be identical to another woman's normal behavior and you should learn to differentiate it.

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Photo: Man Sends a Note to Neighbours Who Get Really Loud During $-éx

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Men, be cautious: if you get it on like animals in the zoo with your maté and are inconsiderate of your neighbours, you may be labeled a wife béater. Just like in the note below: PHOTO: Man Sends a Note to Neigbours Who Get Really Loud During S-ex Do you think the neigbour chose the right way to explain?

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62 Reasons Why "ASUU is on strike" - Must Read

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For those who do not understand "Why ASUU is on strike" - Please read this and share widely.....

1. Less than 10% of the universities have Video Conferencing facility.

2. Less than 20% of the universities use Interactive Boards

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Vdeo: Aviation Minister Says Plane Crash Is An Act Of God

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PHOTOS: Female Fan Goes haywire At CokoBar Concert, Expóses thick Prívate Parts On Stage

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Fans certainly had a crank at the CokoBar Music Festival which happened on Sunday, 6th of October at London's o2 Indigo.  One fan specifically appears to be extremely taken with Flavour's music when she was picked from the crowd in the future show her stuff on stage. She got on stage, began to shake her goodíes to the music and buóyed by the cheering crowd, she went a little crazy.

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Thinking the Recolonization of Africa: US, UK Counter-terrorism Forces Storm Nigeria.

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A Nigerian news portal, 'Abusidiqu' once reported a wikileaks revelation on how an Algerian-based CIA-sponsored agency gave $40 million to members of the Boko Haram sect promising them more if they continue in their acts. This claim cannot be dismissed considering the act of the CIA in Syria too. The French military also was also financing the rebels in Mali before they grew out of hand.

French forces also airlifted and dropped sophisticated weapons for rebels in Libya, especially in Misrata, during the no-fly-zone turned regime-change war. These weapons were unaccounted for but today as always and usual, terrorists roving West Africa are said to get their weapons from Gaddafi and as an aftermath of his fall. Boko Haram also began kidnapping after France paid it N500 million to free some French nationals held hostage.

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Three rebel govs to meet Jonathan today

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Governors Rotimi Amaechi (Rivers), Babangida Aliyu (Niger) and Rabiu Kwankwanso (Kano) are to meet with President Goodluck Jonathan on Monday (today) at the Presidential Villa, Abuja to seek the postponement of their peace meeting.

The meeting was originally scheduled for today but the New Peoples Democratic Party, through its National Publicity Secretary, Chief Chukwuemeka Eze, announced in a statement last week, that it had been cancelled because most of the seven aggrieved governors were billed for the 2013 Hajj in Saudi Arabia.

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20 killed in fresh B’Haram attack

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At least 20 people were killed when Islamist group Boko Haram attacked a town in northeast Nigeria, triggering clashes with troops stationed there, the military said on Sunday.

Reuters reported that a spokesman for Nigerian forces in northeastern Borno State, which lies at the heart of a four-year-old Islamist insurgency, said the Islamists crept into the town of Damboa in the early hours of Saturday.

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We Did Not Hire Crashed Plane – Agagu’s Family

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The family of late former Governor of Ondo State, Dr. Olusegun Agagu, whose remains, while being conveyed to Akure in an aircarft chartered from Associated Airlines, crashed last Thursday in Lagos said, yesterday, that the choice of the ill-fated plane was not that of the family.
  
Thirteen of the twenty passengers and crew on board the aircraft died in the crash. The Agagu family in a statement by Femi Agagu to clear the air on the controversy surrounding the choice of the airline said:
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‘Federal, State Governments In N9tn Debt’

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Nigeria’s total public debt rose from N6.25tn ($40.1bn) in 2010 to N9.04tn ($58.04bn) by the end of December 2012, according to the Debt Management Office.

In its 2013 Report of the Annual National Debt Sustainability Analysis, released in Abuja on Sunday, the DMO said it would issue $100m Diaspora bond in 2014.

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Over 100 nak*éd women Pour to the street to protest heavy military presence in Delta community

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Dozens of nak*éd Kokori women, on Sunday afternoon took to the streets to protest the siege on the Ethiope East Local Government Area of Delta State community by troops of the Joint Task Force (JTF).

Reports from the community indicated that the about 100 nak*éd protesters were unhappy that their husbands have fled the community due to the military operation launched in the wake of the arrest of notorious criminal, Kelvin Oniarah.

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The death of Mostly Eritrean and Somali Migrants In Italian sea - Comments

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This is so wicked..

It's not a blame game these are facts...
FROM SISTER M . R

"Totally agree with you. I live in Italy and this choreographed "line of honour" only came about after the Pope described what took place as disgusting. The Catholic Church rules." Racism is very overt here and sadly, I am not surprised or doubt that these "migrants" were treated like animals. I'm more than angry about what happened and I'm also angry at those greedy, sinful individuals in Africa who make a business out of selling tickets on such vessels containing people who are desperate - the conditions that they travel in are horrific. These traffickers are also well aware that as black migrants, they will not be treated in a humane way when they arrive at the South Italian coast.

COMMENT MADE BY A SISTER LIVING IN ITALY JANE G .
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JTF captures bunkering vessels, nabs 26

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The Joint (Military) Task Force in the Niger Delta, code named Operation Pulo Shield, said on Sunday that it intercepted two bunkering vessels and arrested 26 suspected oil thieves, including a Ghanain, in the region.  According to the JTF spokesman, Lt.-Col. Onyema Nwachukwu, the feat was achieved after a week-long operations in Bayelsa, Rivers, Delta and Edo states.  He said the suspects were arrested over alleged illegal lifting of crude oil and illegally distilled Automated Gas Oil (diesel).  In Bayelsa State, Nwachukwu said troops of 343 Artillery Regiment deployed in the state’s creeks, uncovered a hose illegally connected from Nigerian Agip Oil Company’s pipeline to an illegal oil dump.

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FG bars Associated Airlines

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Culled From Punch Nigeria.

The Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority has suspended the operations of Associated Aviation Limited, owners of Associated Airlines, following Thursday’s crash, which killed 13 out of the 20 people on board.

The EMB 120 2ER 5N-BJY aircraft with 30 passenger capacity, which was manufactured by Embraer S.A Brazil and registered in Nigeria on  May 22, 2007 crashed  shortly after take-off from the Murtala Muhammed Airport, Ikeja, Lagos.

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