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. AKON Akon has over 35 million albums sold worldwide and also a popular musician in Africa and also in the world. He has won numerous awards including five Grammy Award nominations and has 45 Billboard Hot 100 songs under his belt. He tops the list according to Forbes Africa. Akon net worth is estimated at $80 million currently this 2018 2. BLACK COFFEE The multi-award-winning artist’s real name is Nkosinathi Maphumulo. He was born in South Africa’s house music province, KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) and raised in the Eastern Cape province, where Nelson Mandela hailed from, before moving back to KZN to study music. He is second richest artist in Africa but first in South-Africa with a current net worth of $60 million this 2018. 3. HUGH MASEKELA Hugh was born in Witbank, east of Johannesburg. He has released more than 43 albums and performed with Marvin Gaye, Dizzy Gillespie, The Byrds, Fela Kuti, Paul Simon, Stevie Wonder and Miriam Makeba. He is also one of the richest Afric...

HOME   >  NEWS   >  POLITICS   >  ALL THE DRAMA WHEN DINO ‘DECAMPED FROM APC TO PDP' Melaye All the drama when Dino ‘decamped from APC to PDP' Goodness Adaoyiche | 16:18 | 30.05.2018 Dino Melaye opted to seat with PDP senators at plenary. Is this a pointer to his defection from the    Subscribe » more Is Senator Dino Melaye on his way to the PDP?  (Instagram/dinomelaye) A mild drama ensued on the floor of the Senate as embattled Kogi lawmaker,  Dino Melaye , changed his sitting position from the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) side. Melaye arrived for plenary on cervical collar after weeks of absence due to injuries sustained when he allegedly jumped down a moving Police vehicle. The Kogi lawmaker was  arrested   after two suspects linked him to a case of gun running. » more Dino Melaye says Po...

Justice Adebukola Banjoko of the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory in Gudu, Abuja, on Wednesday sentenced a former governor of Taraba State, Jolly Nyame, to 14 years’ imprisonment for his acts of criminal breach of trust and misappropriation of the sum of N1.64bn belonging to the state. The judgment marked the end of about 11 years’ trial which would be the first full-blown criminal proceedings to be conducted in a Nigerian court and ended in a guilty verdict sending a former governor to jail for a period as long as 14 years for corruption. Nyame, whose name goes with the appellation of a church title of “Reverend.” was convicted on a total of 27 out of the 41 counts preferred against him. He was convicted and sentenced to various terms of imprisonment with the highest being 14 years for offences bordering on criminal breach of trust, criminal misappropriation, and taking valuable thing without consideration and receiving gratification as a public...