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NAMES OF RICHEST OF ALL TIMES
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NET
WORTH
$
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COMPANY
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NAMES OF RICHEST OF TODAY
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NET
WORTH
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COMPANY
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VARIANCE
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Mansa Musa
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400 billion
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emperor of the Mali empire
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Bill Gate
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85.9 billion
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Microsoft
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314.1
billion
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John D.
Rockefeller
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340 billion
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Standard Oil
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Amancia Ortega
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75.8 billion
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Inditex fashion group
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264.2 billion
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Andrew Carnegie
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310 billion
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U.S. Steel Corp.
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Warren Buffett
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68.2 billion`
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Berkshire Hathway
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241.8 billion
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Nikolai Alexandrovich Romanov
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300 billion
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emperor of Russia
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Jeff Bezos
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63.1 billion
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Amazon
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236.9 billion
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Mir Osman Ali Khan
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230
billion
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ruler of the Hyderabad State in India
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Charles Koch
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55.2 billion
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Koch Industries
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174.8 billion
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Jakob Fugger
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221 billion
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textile
trading, mining of silver and gold, merchant and
banking activities
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David Koch
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55.2 billion
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Koch Industries
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165.8 billion
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William the Conqueror
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209 billion to $229 billion
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Carlos Slim
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51.4 billion
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extensive holdings in a
considerable number of Mexican companies
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157.6 billion
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Muammar
Gaddafi
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200 billion
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ruler of the northern African country of Libya
for 42 years
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Mark Zuckerberg
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49.7 billion
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Facebook
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150.3 billion
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Henry Ford
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199 billion
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Ford
Motor Co.
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Larry Ellison
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43.4 billion
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Oracle Corporation
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155.6 billion
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Cornelius Vanderbilt
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185 billion
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Vanderbilt
University, the building of railroads and shipping lines during the 1800s
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Ingvar Kamprad
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42.5 billion
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IKEA
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142.5 billion
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This year’s Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination [UTME] will commence on Monday, February 29. It will be the second year since the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) started the full-blown Computer-Based Test (CBT) as against the pencil-based test that had been used over the years. JAMB experimented with CBT in select centres in 2013 and 2014 and beginning from last year, it made CBT compulsory for all candidates sitting for its exam. As it were, JAMB sold the CBT idea to Nigerians with what it considers to be the advantages of this test-system over the previous PBT. First, CBT can be better supervised. Secondly, JAMB claimed that CBT would eliminate the high cost of producing written materials and of transporting them to various locations across the country. The test software would now be sent electronically to internet portals at designated examination centres. Also, CBT is expected to reduce examinati...
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