Richest Countries in Africa
Rank Country GDP - per capita
1 Equatorial Guinea $ 50,200
2 Mauritius $ 13,500
3 South Africa $ 13,000
4 Libya $ 12,700
5 Botswana $ 11,400
6 Tunisia $ 8,600
7 Seychelles $ 7,800
8 Algeria $ 7,700
9 Namibia $ 7,400
10 Gabon $ 7,200
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Richest Countries in Asia
Rank Country GDP - per capita
1 Japan $ 33,100
2 Singapore $ 30,900
3 Brunei $ 25,600
4 Korea, South $ 24,200
5 Malaysia $ 12,700
6 Kazakhstan $ 9,100
7 Thailand $ 9,100
8 Turkey $ 8,900
9 Turkmenistan $ 8,900
10 China $ 7,600
33 East Timor $ 800
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Richest Countries in the Caribbean
Rank Country GDP - per capita
1 Bahamas, The $ 21,300
2 Trinidad and Tobago $ 19,700
3 Barbados $ 18,200
4 Antigua and Barbuda $ 10,900
5 Saint Kitts and Nevis $ 8,200
6 Dominican Republic $ 8,000
7 Saint Lucia $ 4,800
8 Jamaica $ 4,600
9 Cuba $ 3,900
10 Grenada $ 3,900
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Richest Countries in Europe
Rank Country GDP - per capita
1 Luxembourg $ 68,800
2 Norway $ 47,800
3 Ireland $ 43,600
4 Andorra $ 38,800
5 Iceland $ 38,100
6 Denmark $ 37,000
7 Austria $ 35,500
8 San Marino $ 34,100
9 Switzerland $ 33,600
10 Finland $ 32,800
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This is the richest man in Africa
On the ninth floor of the Dangote Group headquarters in Lagos, Nigeria's most successful businessman has a panoramic view of the sprawling urban mass, which makes up Nigeria's commercial capital.
His visitor, Mr Otedola has made a fortune from trading fuel and petroleum products in Nigeria, but Mr Dangote is in another league.
His business empire spans the economy. He dominates the markets for sugar, cement, rice, pasta, textiles and salt, and he is big in transport, oil and gas.
"I think I have to be rated by Forbes magazine first before I can be [called] the richest man in Africa," says Mr Dangote modestly. "But, you know, I'm comfortable."
New investments
Mr Dangote has come along way from his early days of trading commodities in his home town of Kano in the north.
We have had a generational change in business and this is now going to happen in government
Aliko Dangote, Dangote Group
He recently turned 50 and has listed two of his 13 companies on the Nigerian stock market. His stake in those two alone is worth more than $4bn (£2bn).
In politics, as in business, he is also a powerful player. He is not ashamed to be financially supporting President Olusegun Obasanjo's ruling People's Democratic Party and he is confident that its candidate Umaru Musa Yar'Adua will become Nigeria's next president.
"I am close to people in government because I am one of the big businessmen in Nigeria," he explains. "If we don't have the right people there then [all the] money I have is useless. If the country turns into another Zimbabwe, for example, then I will become a poor person."
For now, Mr Dangote is confident about the future and he lists some of the $9bn of investments in Nigeria he is currently planning, including the world's biggest sugar refinery, a 300,000 barrels a day oil refinery and a massive 5,000 megawatt power project।
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Thursday, October 18, 2007
WAEC withholds Ogun public schools’ results
The West African Examinations Council has withheld the results of the May/June 2007 Senior School Certificate Examination of public schools in Ogun State.
Investigations on Tuesday by our correspondent in Abeokuta, the state capital, showed that all efforts by the candidates to access their results on the internet were fruitless.
Findings revealed the results were being withheld because of the failure of the state government to fully pay the students’ examination fees.
The examination body had released the results in other parts of the country about three weeks ago. While in Ogun State, the results have been released to private schools.
The Controller of WAEC in the state, Mrs. Anike Alli, confirmed that the results of public schools in the state had not been released.
Urging parents and students to be patient, Alli said the results would be released as soon as the fees were fully paid.
She said, “The council and government are talking. The government has promised that before the end of this week, they will pay in full. Thereafter the result will be made available and parents and students will be happy.”
The Chief Press Secretary to the state Governor, Mr. Wale Adedayo, attributed the delay in paying the fees to technical hitches.
He said, “I can assure you that it is not only the SSCE fees of students that have been paid. Tai Solarin University graduates that were sent back from the National Youth Service Corps scheme have been recalled.
“The first instalment of the SSCE fees was paid some time back. The second one has equally been paid.
“If you go to the WAEC office as I’m talking to you, it will be confirmed that it has been paid.
“There were some technical hitches here and there in the last one week and the fees were not credited into their account (WAEC).” If you go through the system of how money is being paid, you will discover that the money has left our treasury about a week ago.”
Sources at the WAEC office said the council had been warning officials of the state against default.
The sources said that WAEC allowed the students to sit for the examination despite the failure of the government to fully pay the fees.
They added, “The fees should have been fully paid at the point of registration, but the council was magnanimous enough to allow the students to write the exam. Even after the release of the result the fees had not been paid.”
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