RussNeft Chairman of the Board of Directors Mikhail Gutseriev Sergei Savostyanov The 10 richest families in Russia each earned more than $2 billion in the past year to amass a collective fortune of $27 billion, Forbes Russia said in its latest ranking published Wednesday, with Russia's top three clans retaining their spots from last year. Oligarch Mikhail Gutseriev's family topped the list with $9.91 billion shared between five family members, including new business partners, Said Gutseriev and Bilan Uzhakhov, who are his son and nephew. Gutseriev's Safmar Group has in recent months purchased household goods store Eldorado and a majority stake in consumer electronics retailer M.video, with plans to merge the two chains. Arkady and Igor Rotenberg took the second spot in the Forbes ranking, boasting a $4.2 billion fortune that they share with their sons Igor and Roman. Last year, the publication estimated the Rotenberg brothers earned $2.8 billion. Forbes attributes their suc...
BREAKING: Rivers state commissioner of police is dead Mr Odesanya was said to have died this morning Tuesday, January 31 Rivers state commissioner of police Francis Bolaji Odesanya died outside Nigeria's shores. The Rivers State Police Commissioner, Mr. Francis Bolaji Odesanya has died in an Indian hospital after an assumed kidney failure. He was the 37th Rivers State Commissioner of Police, having succeeded Mr. Foluso Adebanjo on July 12, 2016. Odesanya joined the force on February 2, 1986, as a Cadet Assistant Superintendent of Police and rose through the ranks to his current position of Commissioner of Police.
I warned Nigerians about Buhari, he has no direction – PDP chieftain, Kaze A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and a former member of the House of Representatives Hon Bitrus Kaze has stated that he warned Nigerians against voting for Muhammadu Buhari in 2015 AND SAID Buhari had succeeded in taking Nigeria back to zero level and that it would only take time for the country to recover. Kaze said anyone advising Buhari to run for second term was only being deceptive as the president was unfit to govern the country beyond 2019. “Before I left the National Assembly,I warned our successors that they will be dealing with somebody who finds legislative institution strange which he has never agreed to deal with and with due respect, I think I am being vindicated". “The President does not seems to agree or believe in anybody,the President does not understand the difficulty his policies if any have put Nigerians into,even though up to this moment, I do n...
Masaba, dies at 93 leaving behind 86 wives and over 170 children The controversial super-polygamist and Islamic preacher, Alhaji Mohammed Abubakar Bello Masaba is dead. He died yesterday afternoon after a brief illness in his Bida residence. He was 93 years. His personal assistant, Alhaji Mutairu Salawudeen Bello, confirmed the development in an interview with our correspondent. “The Janiza prayer and interment is slated for today by 10am,” Bello said. He said the late octogenarian had fore-told his death and was prepared for it. “Baba had told us that his time was up. He told me personally during his last moment that he had completed his divine assignment and was ready to meet his creator. “He told us to remain dedicated to the cause of Islam and urged us all not to deviate from all his teachings on righteousness, piety and total submission to the will of Allah. He warned us to shun adultery because it is ‘Hallal’ before Allah,” Bello said....
HO NEWS POLITICS METRO SPORT ENTERTAINMENT MUSIC OPINION EDUCATION HEALTH INTERVIEW DAILY POST GHANA Miyyeti Allah Cattle Breeders have standing army that can destroy national peace – Group A non-governmental Organisation, Advocacy for Advancement of Peace & Harmony in Africa Initiative (ADAPHAI) has described the activities and utterances of members of the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria(MACBAN) as a serious threat to National Security, calling for urgent action to avert imminent danger. The statement was made on Monday through the Executive Director of the organisation, Mr Olaniyi Owolabi while speaking on the recent clashes between herdsmen and farmers. Owolabi said the recent killings of farmers in the North Central, and gruesome murder of villagers in Kaduna State portend serious threat to National Security, and a recipe to internal uprising. He recalled the Ekiti saga, where Miyetti Allah Cattle breede...
A 45-year-old suspected ritualist who was arrested by the Police in Lagos with a human skull, has disclosed that he sold fresh human skull for N1 million. The suspect, Lucien Tusume, was arrested at Iraye village in Sagamu area of Ogun State, following intelligence report. Explaining the circumstance that led to the arrest of the suspected ritualist, the Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer, Olarinde Famous-Cole, said some policemen, who disguised as buyers, contacted the suspect for a human skull. The suspect reportedly agreed to sell a dried skull for N150,000 to the undercover operatives, but the officers bargained for N81,000 which he accepted.The suspect later took the dried human skull to the 'buyers', and he was subsequently arrested after payment was made to him. During interrogation, the suspect disclosed that the dried skulls were sold between N80,000 and N120,000, adding that fresh human skulls were more expensive. He said: "I sell fresh skull for N1 mil...
Houses Belonging To Nigerians Burnt In South Africa By Nationals February 14,2017 Some South African nationals in Rosettenville, south of Johannesburg, have burned down about 15 houses belonging to immigrants, especially Nigerians residing there. The locals, who were apparently peeved, have accused the non-indigenes of turning their neighbourhood into a drug den. According to Africa Review, some shops belonging to foreign nationals in the area were also looted on Sunday, February 12, 2017. The South African residents in the area are of the opinion that Nigerians had illegally taken over most property and turned them into drug and prostitution dens, thereby calling for their sack from the neighbourhood. Confirming the attacks when contacted, Marc Gbaffou, African Diaspora Forum (ADM) chairperson, blamed Herman Mashaba, Johannesburg mayor, for his inflammatory comments. In December 2016, Mashaba had told a media conference that illegal immigrants got there crim...
How Jonathan's defeat By Buhari caused PDP's crisis 25th Feb 2017, The leadership crisis in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is now being linked to the failure of the party to field a Northerner as its presidential flag bearer in the 2015 elections. This follows assertions from former national chairman, Dr. Mohammed Haliru, The Nation reports. According to Haliru, the story would have been different today for the PDP if it had given its ticket to a Northerner in the 2011 and 2015 elections. PDP chieftain says the party failed to win 2015 presidential election because it fielded a Northerner as its presidential flag bearer He said the party lost because it abandoned its zoning arrangement and adopted the then incumbent Dr. Goodluck Jonathan. Haliru said the North felt shortchanged in 2015 when the party put Jonathan forward as its candidate for the election. Haliru said that the unfinished first term of the late President Umaru Yar’Adua was rightl...
THE LATE BELOVED SENATOR ISIAKA ADELEKE Ogun State Governor, Ibikunle Amosun, rescued an aide to Osun State Governor, Ms Idiat Babalola, from mob attack at the premises of the late Senator Isiaka Adeleke, on Monday. According to the Senior Special Assistant (Media) to Amosun, Mr. Adejuwon Soyinka, the crowd of sympathisers demanded that Babalola be made to leave the premises of the Ede,Osun State country home of the Adelekes. The irate youths said Babalola was being touted to become the running mate of the anointed candidate of the APC. Problem started when Babalola was sighted by the mourners who demanded that she should be sent out. Despite pleas from family members of the deceased , the youths insisted and started shouting and raining curses on her. see photos; SENATOR AMOSUN LEFT
Voters went to the polls yesterday to elect a brand new figurehead for Greater Manchester Greater Manchester will today find out who is to become its first-ever elected mayor. Voters across the region went to the polls yesterday to elect a brand new figurehead – in charge of just under £1bn in public spending and with considerable influence over a range of issues. Last night each town hall in the region checked and verified all the votes cast, ahead of a count today at Manchester Central conference centre. That starts at midday and is likely to continue until late afternoon or early evening, when a final result will be declared. Eight candidates went for the role of elected mayor in a race prompted by the wave of devolution granted by the government three years ago. Conservative Sean Anstee, Liberal Democrat Jane Brophy, Labour’s Andy Burnham, English Democrat Stephen Morris, Ukip’s Shneur Odze, the Green Party’s Will Patterson and independent candidates Mohammed Aslam and ...
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