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Emmanuel Nwude Odinigwe is a Nigerian businessman known for defrauding a Brazilian bank of US$242 million to build a ficticious airport. Nwude formerly served as Director of Union Bank of Nigeria . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] He defrauded Nelson Sakaguchi, a Director at Brazil's Banco Noroeste based in São Paulo , [ 3 ] of $242 million: $191 million in cash ...
Cosmas Maduka CON // ⓘ (born December 24, 1958) is a Nigerian businessman and philanthropist, the founder, president, and chairman of the Coscharis Group.. In 2015, Maduka was featured in Forbes Africa TV Series “Worst Day with Peace Hyde” and was estimated to be worth $500million USD and was also reported to have been swindled the sum of N21 billion by Ifeanyi Ubah of Capital Oil and ...
Black billionaires are individuals who are of predominantly African ancestry with a net worth of at least US$1 billion. According to the 2024 Forbes ranking of the world's billionaires, Nigerian business magnate Aliko Dangote had a net worth of $13.9 billion and was the world's richest black man. [1]
$8.0 billion 75 South Africa: De Beers: 4: Johann Rupert: $7.2 billion 70 South Africa: Richemont, Remgro: 4: Mike Adenuga: $6.3 billion 67 Nigeria: Globacom, Conoil: 6: Abdul Samad Rabiu: $5.5 billion 60 Nigeria: BUA Group: 7: Issad Rebrab: $4.4 billion 77 Algeria: Cevital: 9: Naguib Sawiris: $3.2 billion 66 Egypt: Orascom: 9: Patrice Motsepe ...
Chief Michael Adeniyi Agbolade Ishola Adenuga Jr CSG GCON [3] (born 29 April 1953) is a Nigerian billionaire businessman, and the fifth richest person in Africa according to Forbes. [4] His company Globacom is Nigeria's second-largest telecom operator [ 5 ] and also has a presence in Ghana and Benin .
A Nigerian man in Texas has been arrested in connection with what federal authorities say was a romance fraud scheme that netted more than $3.3 million.. Agents with the Federal Bureau of ...
Aliko Dangote (born 10 April 1957) is a Nigerian businessman and industrialist. He is the first man to build a private refinery in Nigeria. Forbes estimates his net worth at US$10.7 billion and Bloomberg Billionaires Index at $27.1 billion, and ranked 225th and 70th richest individual in the world respectively in 2025.
A Nigerian man who has spent 10 years on death row for stealing some hens and eggs has been promised a pardon by the governor of the south-western Osun state. Segun Olowookere was 17 years old in ...