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afonjadie:
Why then are you crying to him instead of quoting me, Afonja scratched face.

Justiceleague1:
be a gud citizen,love ur kwantiri.... Hausa+youbars=one coital love,one naijiriya 4eva.

Sarrki: be a patriot



seriously,you must have read that news headlong haahahahahahahahahahahaaaaaaa......

yarabbas are the most EDUCATED indeed...

GoldNiagara:
They might start with another narrative that they have bought over 70% of threads on naira land declare it a no man thread.

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has overtaken Bill Gates and is now the richest person in the world, with a fortune topping $90 billion for the first time ever.

When markets opened on Thursday, Bezos had a net worth of $90.6 billion, putting him more than $500 million ahead of Microsoft founder Bill Gates. Amazon stock opened up 1.6% on Thursday, adding $1.3 billion to Bezos’ net worth. That was enough to put him ahead of Gates, who was last surpassed on Forbes’ real-time rankings for just two days nearly a year ago by Spanish retail giant Amancio Ortega.

Forbes started tracking billionaires around the globe in 1987. Bezos is now the seventh person to hold the title of the world’s richest person and the third American to top the global ranks besides Gates and Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett.

While Gates and Buffett both appeared on Forbes’ first ranking of America’s 400 Richest people in 1982, Bezos is a newer addition to Forbes’ wealth rankings. He first appeared on the Forbes 400 in 1998, a year after Amazon went public, with a $1.6 billion fortune. Bezos ranked third richest in the world on Forbes 2017 list of the World’s Billionaires, published in March, with a fortune of $72.8 billion.

Bezos would be nowhere close to being the world’s wealthiest person had Gates not given so much of his fortune to philanthropy. Gates, who created the Giving Pledge with Buffett to encourage billionaires to give at least half of their wealth to charitable causes, had given away $32.9 billion over the course of his lifetime through end of 2016. Forbes estimates that Bezos, who has not signed the pledge, had given approximately $100 million to charity through the end of 2015. In June, Bezos tweeted out a request for ideas for his philanthropy, garnering thousands of responses.

Bezos attended Princeton and then worked at a hedge fund before starting his online bookseller in a garage in Seattle in 1994. Amazon has since grown into an online retail behemoth selling a wide range of products. It also offers cloud services through its Amazon Web Services division, known as AWS. Outside of his day job, Jeff Bezos owns aerospace company Blue Origin and the Washington Post.

Gates fortune is built on software firm Microsoft, which he founded in 1975 with his friend Paul Allen. Gates has sold off much of his Microsoft stake but still owns about 2% of the company’s shares, worth about $12.4 billion – just under 14% of his fortune. His investment firm Cascade Investments has ploughed Gates’ money into a wide variety of assets, including public stocks, real estate, private equity and venture capital. Gates owns stakes in companies as diverse as Canadian National Railway, hygiene technologies firm Ecolab and Mexican Coke bottler Femsa.

Bifwoli:
Then why is there so much poverty ,vast slums and very poor quality of plus poor life expectancy in the south west if they're so industrious?

Are you mentally weak also not to see the huge poverty stricken areas like Makoko ,Ijeshatedo,Agege Bodija etc...?

OkoYibo:
LIST OF NIGERIANS WHO HAVE WON THE GRAMMYS


Lekan Babalola: Won 2 Grammys. 2006 and 2009)

Seal [Olusegun Olumide Adeola Samuel) Won 4 Grammy's)

Sade Ade[Helen Folashade Adu]: 1 Grammy's

Chamillionaire [ Hakeem Seriki] 1 Grammy's

Sikiru Adepoju; 2 Grammy's: 1991, 2008.
 
Kevin Olusola: 3 Grammy's in 2015, 2016, 2017.


All the 13 Grammys won by Nigerians were won by Yorubas.

Yorubas Alone = 13 Grammys
Others = Nothing to show.

raker300:
yet your people are posting tshirt writers and ice cream sellers as successful yorubas.

You guys are funny

chibuzorAbia:
I am extremely annoyed!!!!

It must NOT happen again. Flatinoes piss me off big time. We can retain their ladies though!

kikake:
As if it is truly from your heart to ask us go to form our own country different from Nigeria.

Insincerity, na him full una head.

deomelo:
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Copy and paste Internet write up doesn't meant it exist and his name means nothing.


You posted some man's biography, not an actual company and what they do in form of product and or services.

All you people do is look for ibo name next to any company and just cut and paste\ without reading.

Fake Fake Fake.

deomelo:
FAKE FAKE FAKE.


Doesn't EXIST.

Kase Lukman Lawal (born June 30, 1954)is a Nigerian-born businessman who lives and works in the United States.

Lawal was born June 30, 1954 in Ibadan. He obtained his Bachelor of Science in chemistry from Texas Southern University in 1976, and his MBA from Prairie View A&M University, Texas in 1978. He is the chairman and chief executive officer of CAMAC International Corporation, chairman and chief executive officer of Erin Energy Corporation, and chairman of Allied Energy Corporation in Houston, Texas, Chairman/Chief Executive Officer, CAMAC HOLDINGS; vice chairman, Port of Houston Authority Commission. He also serves as a member of the board of directors and is a significant shareholder in Unity National Bank, the only federally insured and licensed African-American-owned bank in Texas. Lawal was a member of the National Republican Congressional Committee's Business Advisory Council and, in 1994, he was a finalist for the United States Business Entrepreneur of the Year. Lawal is a member of Phi Beta Sigma fraternity.

CNN: Nigerian-born entrepreneur Kase Lawal is the epitome of the American dream. Arriving to the US a young, idealistic student, Lawal has carved a name for himself in one of the most competitive industries in the world: Oil.
Now head of a multi-billion dollar empire, his Houston-based company, CAMAC, is one of the largest black-owned businesses in the U.S., generating over $2 billion dollars a year.
Founded nearly 25 years ago, Lawal built CAMAC from a small agriculture business into a global oil company. But it's taken a lot of hard work, determination and guts to get him to the top.
Born and raised in Ibadan, Nigeria in 1954, Lawal became interested in America and its civil rights movement during his teens. After finally persuading his father, a local politician, to send him to university in America, Lawal headed to Georgia and then Houston, where he attended the Texas Southern University.
After graduating with a Bachelor of Science in chemical engineering in 1976, Lawal, like many of his classmates, started out as a graduate in the energy industry. First as a chemist for Dresser Industries (now Halliburton) and then as a chemical engineer with Shell Oil Refining Co.

During this time he met his wife, Eileen through a mutual friend and had his three children.
Now married and settled, it wasn't long before the innovative young Nigerian started to implement his business ideas.
In 1986 he established CAMAC, a company trading agricultural commodities such as sugar, tobacco and rice. In the early 90s he made the leap into the energy sector after the Nigerian government started to develop its energy market.
With his knowledge of Nigeria and his Houston address, Lawal was ideally positioned to attract major oil companies. In 1991 CAMAC made a deal with the oil giant Conoco, agreeing to jointly operate and share production from any Nigerian discoveries.
This turned out to be Lawal's big break.
With his political contacts, local market knowledge and now with the backing of a major oil firm, Lawal's Houston-based company became an instant player in the energy industry.
As Lawal told CNN: "That partnership I believe was the cornerstone of the CAMAC that you know today. Subsequently with that credibility and the advantage of partnering with Conoco, we were also able to partner with BP and also with Statoil of Norway and currently we have made a partnership with Eni, the largest Italian company, which is one of the top five oil companies in the world."
Now CAMAC has offices in London, Johannesburg, Lagos and Port Harcourt, Nigeria and is involved in oil exploration, refining and trading.
He was awarded the USAfrica Business Person of the Year in 1997 and in 2002 CAMAC was named the largest African-American owned company on the Black Enterprise 100s list.

kikake:
Another good one for Igbo Lagosians. Even the intelligence of Igbo persons living in Russia can't be insulted this far...

seguno2:
Point out where I said "substantial" if you are not a bloody liar.
Otherwise apologise.

seguno2:
You don't know what you are talking about.
Get knowledge and stop being proud with ignorance.

seguno2:
Because they have the numbers and pay taxes.
That should be obvious to anyone who is not blinded by tribalism.
By the way, do you pay your taxes fully or you are still being fed by your parents?

Bifwoli:
But the Igbos are better businessmen overall ,these folks here might have 2 billionaires and the rest are 35m beggars but the Igbo are more level overall with lesser inequalities.

Lloydfather:
you people are good at celebrating mediocrity.
No be some body dey sell ride to Floyd maywealther?

tonio2wo:
this your hate will eventually lead you to where ur ancestors are right now.

facelessangel:
All na Yoruba muslim

Duro Olowu is a Nigerian-born, London-based fashion designer. He is best known for his innovative combinations of patterns and textiles that draw inspiration from his international background. His empire waist patchwork "Duro" dress was named "dress of the year" by both American and British Vogue in 2005. Some of Olowu's notable clients include Michelle Obama, Solange Knowles, and Iris Apfel. In 2005 he won "New Designer of the Year" at the British Fashion awards, the first designer to win without ever showing a runway presentation.

Olowu was born in Lagos, Nigeria, to a Nigerian father and Jamaican mother. He grew up living in both Nigeria and London and spent summers in Geneva, immersing him in multiple cultures. Olowu began sketching fashion designs at six years old and continued throughout his childhood, but still chose to pursue a career in law and follow in his father's footsteps. He moved to the United Kingdom for school, earning a law degree at the University of Canterbury, and practicing in Nigeria.

Michelle Obama wearing Olowu on Air Force One flight to South Africa, September 19, 2011.

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In 2004, Olowu launched a women's wear label under his own name, beginning with the Spring/Summer 2005 collection. A high-waisted patchwork skirt from that collection, later dubbed the "Duro," developed a cult following after being discovered and publicized by American Vogue editor Sally Singer and Julie Gilhart of Barneys New York, leading to it being hailed the dress of the year by both British and American Vogue.

In 2005, he was named London Fashion Week's New Designer of the Year, the only designer to do so without having a catwalk show.

In 2009, he was named the Best International Designer by the African Fashion Awards and received one of six nominations for the Swiss Textile Federation's coveted prize of €100,000.

In October 2012, Olowu announced a partnership with J. C. Penney. Under the label "Duro Olowu for jcp," consumers could purchase clothing, accessories, and paper and home goods with his signature bold prints.

Duro Olowu has enjoyed support from former American First Lady Michelle Obama, who frequently wears his designs. “Michelle Obama was a real supporter and I felt very honoured because she wore very few non-American designers” Olowu said in an interview. Michelle Obama also engaged Olowu in decorating the White House for Christmas 2015, where he decorated the Vermeil Room with ornate trappings and teddy bears made of vintage African fabrics. The designer said, "My idea [was] to create a beautiful feast for the eyes reminiscent of a warm and joyful season filled with international treasures and signature fabrics