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Olamijuwonlo Alao-Akala, the son of the former governor of Oyo State, Adebayo Alao-Akala, has been reinstated as the chairman of Ogbomosho North local government area hours after his father formed an alliance with the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).

The elder Alao-Akala had
announced his decision to dump his ambition for the APC candidate, Adebayo Adelabu ahead of the March 9th election.
Olamijuwonlo was suspended by four councillors in the council over alleged anti-party activities in February.

The ruling party in the state, the APC, also claimed it suspended Mr Alao-Akala’s son because he had dumped the party.
But barely 12 hours after his father decided to form an alliance with the APC and its candidate to work together in the election, the suspended chairman has been reinstated.

His reinstatement by the state government under the leadership of Abiola Ajimobi, the governor, was contained in a letter obtained by PREMIUM TIMES Saturday afternoon.
His reinstatement by the state government under the leadership of Abiola Ajimobi, the governor, was contained in a letter obtained by PREMIUM TIMES Saturday afternoon.
In the letter signed on behalf of the state government by the commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs in Oyo State, Bimbo Kolade, Olamijuwonlo is expected to resume office on March 4.

Source: https://afrilensnews.com/2019/03/02/alao-akalas-son-reinstated-as-council-boss-hours-after-father-joined-apc/

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Rextizzle:
When village people finally get you.

And decide to rename your file to the first one on the list

IdreamOfUnicorn:
Some of them are still young enough to have kids.

Yeah, you're right. But many on this same list are way more than young enough to have kids. In the ghetto, we say 'e don red for them'

ShawttySoFyne:
No hope for that 84year old man tho.(Giorgio Armani)

Exactly. There are still others who are way past the age of giving birth. I have only referenced the 'least' 15 by fortune ranking. Still up to 30 people on the list!

soberdrunk:
I have always felt I was adopted, i have a very strong feeling my daddy is on this list......

Hahaha..... I think I know who your dad is on the list.

The heirless super-rich ranked

Some lucky descendents of the richest people on Earth stand to inherit millions or even billions, but not all of the super-rich have heirs to pass their money onto. Here are the world's wealthiest billionaires who don't have children, according to analysis by Forbes and Bloomberg.

1. David Geffen: $7.9 billion
College dropout David Geffen made his money through Geffen Records, which signed top artists from Elton John to Nirvana. He co-founded film studio DreamWorks SKG and has also reportedly made hundreds of millions selling artworks. The 75-year-old, who came out in the 1990s, has donated to many causes linked to gay rights and AIDS. His property empire has been valued at $450 million and he owns a 453-foot yacht.

2. Ma Jianrong: $7.9 billion
The Shenzhou International Group is not widely known outside Asia, but its products are worn by people all over the world. Ma Jianrong is chair of the sportswear and casual clothing manufacturer, a major supplier for Nike, Adidas, Uniqlo and others. The 55-year-old started out on the factory floor, but took over from his father as chair at 33, before they bought the company. The business is now publicly traded and employs more than 70,000 workers. While he is married, Ma has no children.

3. Giorgio Armani: $8.6 billion
Fashion legend Giorgio Armani has said his nephews and nieces will probably inherit his company, though he has no plans to retire himself. The 84-year-old started out as a window dresser in a Milan department store, before launching his own line in the 1970s. His big break came when he designed Richard Gere’s outfits for the 1980 film American Gigolo , and his clothing ranges are now sold in 46 countries worldwide.

4. Carl Cook: $8.6 billion
Carl Cook’s parents started a small medical supplies business in their apartment in Bloomington, Indiana in 1963. Today the Cook Group is a manufacturing colossus, producing around 16,000 different devices that are sold worldwide, from catheters to dilators. Carl, 56, became chief executive after his father’s death in 2011 and owns the company, but does not have children himself to bequeath the family fortune.

5. Pang Kang: $9.5 billion
Pang Kang, 63, has no son or daughter to inherit his stake in China’s largest soy sauce manufacturer. He joined Foshan Haitian Flavouring & Food as a graduate, working his way up to chairman. Thousands of employees and now smart robots produce more than 200 different condiments at its factories, from oyster sauce to oil.

6. Eduardo Saverin: $9.5 billion
Eduardo Saverin is one of the founders of Facebook, though he had to fight a legal battle to be officially credited on its website. The Brazil-born 36-year-old has gained huge wealth through his 2% stake in the social media giant. But he actually left the company in 2004 amid disagreements about the early Facebook’s direction. He is now a venture capitalist in the tech sector, lives in Singapore, and so far has no children.

7. Jan Koum: $9.6 billion
Former Yahoo employee Jan Koum is one of the leading brains behind WhatsApp, which he co-founded in 2009. He was born in a Ukrainian village, but moved as a teenager with his late mother to California, where he still lives. Facebook bought WhatsApp for cash and stock worth $22 billion in 2014. Koum, 42, is now on Facebook’s board but has donated $555 million of his shares to the Silicon Valley Community Foundation.

8. Karl Albrecht Jr: $9.96 billion
Karl Albrecht Sr (pictured) founded supermarket Aldi with his brother in Germany in 1946. They split the business and his half, ALDI SÜD, passed into the hands of his children Karl Jr and Beate Keister. Son Karl Jr, 70, has spent much of his career working at the firm he owns half of, while his sister has not. Yet while she has children, Karl Jr does not and so the future of his stake is somewhat up in the air.

9. Walter P.J. Droege: $10.2 billion
Walter P.J. Droege is far from a global household name, but his vast fortune has made him the 146th richest person in the world. The 65-year-old from Dusseldorf, Germany, launched an investment firm called Droege Group with his wife Hedda in the 1980s. The company now works across 30 countries and makes around $12 billion a year in revenue. He does not have children, and has spent some of his wealth on contemporary art – both for himself and to inspire his staff.

10. Charles Butt: $10.7 billion
Charles Butt holds 85% of H-E-B, a grocery chain that has become a Texas institution since its launch in 1905. Founded by his grandmother Florence when his grandfather fell sick, it has more than 100,000 workers at hundreds of stores in the U.S.A. and Mexico. Butt, now 81, became CEO in the 1970s, and is the majority shareholder. He has donated to children’s museums and teacher training, and even received honours from Mexico’s government for his work and philanthropy in the country.

11. Alexander Otto: $10.7 billion
Much of Alexander Otto’s wealth stems from his share of the Otto Group, a mail order firm his father Werner built in postwar Germany. The family built up an empire of more than 40 firms in the worlds of retail, finance and property. Alexander has been CEO of their real estate firm ECE since 2000, managing around 200 shopping centers across Europe. He is married to wife Dorit but the couple do not have children.

12. Dustin Moskovitz: $11 billion
Dustin Moskovitz is one of the lesser-known faces behind Facebook, which he helped create with Mark Zuckerberg at Harvard University in 2004. He was the social networking site’s chief technology officer, but left in 2008 and has since launched workflow software company Asana. The Florida-born 34-year-old and his former Wall Street Journal reporter wife Cari Tuna have a foundation called Good Ventures, donating to help tackle malaria and other global issues.

13. Udo and Harald Tschira: $11.4 billion
Brothers Udo and Harald Tschira may have a huge combined wealth, but neither have children. They inherited their money in turn from their father Klaus Tschira, an ex-ITM employee who co-founded German software giant SAP in the 1970s. SAP became the biggest producer of business management software on the planet, and Klaus set up a foundation to inspire a love of science and IT. His less high-profile sons, whose ages are not even widely known, continue his foundation's work.

14. Wang Wenyin: $12 billion
Few people outside China know Wang Wenyin or his company Amer International Group, but inside the country it's an economic giant. The copper and cable supplier has more than 17,000 staff, and generated revenue of around $70 billion in 2017 alone. Married but childless Wenyin, 51, is chairman of the company, which he founded in 1994.

15. Alisher Usmanov: $12.7 billion
Born in Uzbekistan, investor Alisher Usmanov started out producing plastic bags before taking over a subsidiary of Russian state gas giant Gazprom. He has held stakes in digital companies including Airbnb, Spotify and Facebook, but his largest holdings are in Metalloinvest, Russia’s largest iron ore producer. The 65-year-old bought Russia’s biggest private jet in 2012, and until recently held shares in English football club Arsenal.

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Artistree:
The guy beans don done

Over-done and burnt join sef

Shibaraba:
Na so

Abi nah.

Mexican drugs kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzmán was once the leader of the world’s most powerful cartel. He escaped from jail twice in spectacular fashion before being caught in 2016 and extradited to the US, where he has been on trial.
Who is he?

Born in 1957 to a family of farmers, Guzmán’s first exposure to drug trafficking came while working in marijuana and opium poppy fields.

After that, he served an apprenticeship of sorts under Miguel Angel Félix Gallardo (or The Godfather), the chief of the all-powerful Guadalajara cartel.

His rise was swift, setting up his own cartel, the Sinaloa, in north-west Mexico in the late 1980s. Over time, it became one of the biggest traffickers of drugs to the US and, in 2009, Guzmán entered Forbes’ list of the world’s richest men at number 701, with an estimated worth of $1bn.

El Chapo (or “Shorty” – he is only 5ft6, or 1.64m) narrowly escaped assassination by a rival gang in 1993 but was arrested by Mexican authorities and sentenced to 20 years in jail.

The Mexican attorney general’s office described him as “egocentric, narcissistic, shrewd, persistent, tenacious, meticulous, discriminating and secretive”, according to the New Yorker magazine.
How did he break out of jail twice?

Guzmán’s first escape came in 2001, from the Puente Grande maximum security prison, reportedly hidden in a laundry basket. He did so with the help of corrupt prison guards.

He then stayed on the run for 13 years, and used this time to consolidate his empire. He was caught for a second time in February 2014 in Sinaloa state, and sent to Altiplano prison in central Mexico.

But in July 2015, he fled, again, this time through a 1.5km-long (one mile-long) tunnel that led directly underneath his cell.

The escape was elaborate and carefully planned. The tunnel had ventilation, lighting and stairs and the exit was hidden by a construction site.

Mexican TV stations later aired footage that showed that guards failed to act when loud hammering was heard from inside Guzmán’s cell, much to the humiliation of the Mexican government.

His freedom was short lived. In January 2016, Guzmán was tracked down to a house in an affluent part of Los Mochis, in Sinaloa. He had only just moved there, having been hiding out in the country before then.

Five of Guzmán’s guards were killed in the raid by Mexican marines and he managed to flee, but was caught in a car while leaving town.

One year later, he was extradited to the US, where he has been tried on charges that include drug trafficking with the intent to distribute and homicide.
What is his reputation?

Even for a country that produced numerous drugs lords, Guzmán has a fearsome reputation for violence, with his gang’s rivalries with others leaving thousands dead in Mexico’s drugs war.

But among some in his home state, Guzmán is a folk hero, a popular subject of “narcocorridos” – musical tributes to drugs barons.

He was said to be a gourmand, walking into a restaurant with his bodyguards while still at large, asking other diners to give up their mobile phones, then paying everyone’s bill as he left.

In October 2015, while on the run, he gave an interview to Hollywood actor Sean Penn at a jungle hideout. “I have a fleet of submarines, airplanes, trucks and boats,” he said in a story published in Rolling Stone magazine.

Guzmán defended his entry into the narcotics trade, saying there “was no other way to work in our economy, to be able to make a living”.

After his capture it was reported – though never formally confirmed – that Mexican authorities found Guzmán by tracking Penn.
What did we learn at his trial?

His trial in New York started in November 2018, under intense security and jurors, for example, remained anonymous.

Disturbing testimony revealed how a trusted hitman kept a “murder room” in Guzmán’s mansion on the US border, which featured a drain so it was easier to clean up after killings.

Another witness described seeing “El Chapo” brutally beat at least three men before shooting them. One was later buried alive.

Source: https://afrilensnews.com/2019/02/21/meet-the-man-el-chapo-guzman-the-most-notorious-drug-lord-and-leader-of-the-most-powerful-cartel-in-the-world/


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A woman has shared on Facebook how a man she met at the car park racially abused her using derogatory words and actions, only for him to meet her at the interview he was heading to.

Narrating the story on Facebook, the woman, Brandi Boyer, wrote “The man who drove into the parking space I was waiting for today and told me to F*** off N***a and shot me a bird… Arrived for his interview with me!! #KarmaWinsAgain!! #Surprise!!! I’m the HNIC!!”, and ended it with a happy picture of herself smiling at the camera, in a gesture to determine what would be the fate of the young racist.

Many on her timeline had praised her for holding on to wait till the man had come for the interview before unleashing the untold mayhem to him, with someone writing “Thank you for pinching his dumb a** right there, Brandi.”

Source: https://afrilensnews.com/2019/03/01/man-calls-woman-na-told-her-to-tuck-off-and-shot-her-a-bird-turns-out-hed-be-meeting-her-in-an-interview-hes-going-for-shes-the-hr/

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Afrilens News is a subsidiary of Syrabuk Internet Media and Technology (SIMTECH) Services Ltd. It is Africa’s news media/agency dedicated to telling the African story like no other. Our news reportage feature a rich list of news stories covered by our reporters spread across the country. And in our bid to become the news media of choice among Nigerians, we seek to employ the right candidates to fill these rewarding roles in our organization.

1. Special services reporters: Special-services reporters are placed in strategic positions in the country to collect and gather news stories from reputable sources. The special-services reporters we seek to employ would work mostly with top politicians in the country’s capital, with some others attached to state capitals to collect news information as soon as they break. For this position, you should have an ear for information and be ready to prepare those information for publication at the slightest time possible. And as such, this role is only opened to persons who have at least two (2) years experience in news gathering and reporting.
Available Positions: 15
2. Statistician: As our news items are based on factual reportage, we seek to employ the services of an experienced statistician who would analyze news items with their corresponding figures and be sure to provide a backing with his claim. This role is quite different from the role of the Historian, but we expect both individuals that fill these roles/positions to work together towards providing ground-breaking statistics as prove to our news stories, and be ready to project the statistics using the most relevant charts available at his/her disposal. A 5 year experience in this role or similar role is expected for any candidate wishing to apply, although we may give a chance to anyone willing to impress us with data and facts towards why we should employ him/her for this position.
Available Position: 1
3. Graphics Designer (Asst): The role of the Asst. Graphics Designer is well set-out. You are to work directly with the Chief Graphics Designer towards designing powerful and insightful images to captivate our audience with our news items. And since we work with data extensively, the role of representing information on charts may be assigned to you by your Graphics Head. Should this be the case, you would also need to work closely with the Historian and the Statistician to collect their data for further representation on graphics. For this role, no prior experience is required, although basic knowledge of Adobe Suite and Corel Packages would give you an edge over others, but we prioritize right character to growth over experience, or previous knowledge.
Available Positions: 3
4. Historian (Asst): The role of the historian is to connect the dots around current news items with their previous encounters. See this role as one who tells the story of how one thing leads to the other. The essence of this is to make sure our news stories go down memory lane; often called reality check, to provide proper and adequate reporting for our audience. As an assistant historian, you would work closely with the Head, Historian and partly with the Statistician to give us the perfect combination of news items our audiences yearn for. No prior experience is needed for this role. Ability to learn and knowledge about Africa’s politics and economy is key towards been the right candidate for this role.
Available Positions: 1
5. State-based reporters (Asst): Unlike our special services reporters who are majorly based at the centre of power in the country; Abuja, or in their respective state’s centre of power, our state based reporters are free to work anywhere within their states of residence gathering news information and preparing them for publication as soon as they happen. This role is ideal for people looking to start a career in journalism or news reporting, and as such, no previous knowledge or experience is required. You will be asked to work closely with your state’s reporter during your first three months of field work gathering and collecting data before you are left on your own, although still under the tutelage of your head in the state. Available Positions: 35
6. Digital marketers: At Afrilens News, we use digital platforms to publish and interact with our audience, hence, we seek the services of digital marketers to interact with our audience on all digital platforms and help us generate the much needed buzz/leads we require to push our brand as a true African brand utilising the powers of the digital media to leverage growth. Although all our digital marketers would go through a 3 months’ training by our digital agency to understand the right way to interact with our audience in order to achieve growth, we would only employ candidates with prior knowledge of digital media platforms who have a presence on at least, three social media platforms vis: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, Pinterest, and/or Nairaland.
Available Positions: 15

To apply, you are expected to submit electronic copies(PDF/Word documents) of your CV and cover letter, stating the job position you are applying for and why you are best fit for that position.

Read more and apply here:-> https://afrilensnews.com/2019/02/09/work-with-us/

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