World’s Billionaires 2017: Dangote, Adenuga Soar, Amazon CEO Reigns

Forbes 2017 world’s billionaires list has been released which briefly had Amazon CEO as the richest man with a fortune of over $90 billion, overtaking Bill Gates.

In the list, President of the Dangote Group, Alhaji Aliko Dangote, saw his net worth increase by $162m to $16.2bn while the net worth of the Chairman of Globacom, Dr. Mike Adenuga, rose by $7m to $6.2bn.

However, Africa’s richest woman, Folorunsho Alakija, who is the founder and Executive Chairman of Famfa Oil Limited, had her net worth unchanged at $1.6bn.

The new king, Amazon CEO, who started selling books from his garage 22 years ago, had a net worth of over $89 billion as of the close of markets Wednesday, while Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates had a net worth of just over $90 billion.

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 $500 million ahead of Microsoft founder Bill Gates. Amazon stock opened up 1.6% on Thursday, adding $1.4 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.

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos 

JAMB says no more speedy release of UTME results

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) says it would henceforth ensure the resolution of all exam issues before releasing results of its Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME), to avoid cancellation.

Fabian Benjamin, JAMB spokesperson, said this in an interview with NAN in Bwari, FCT, while speaking on the outcome of the mop-up examination results.
He disclosed that the results of supplementary examination conducted by the Board on July 1 in 170 centres for 85, 000 candidates across the country had been released.
He explained that the result was delayed to ascertain there were no hitches all the centres that the supplementary exam was conducted.