Billionaire Aliko Dangote, 70th richest person on earth, was born April 10, 1957 in Kano, to a wealthy Hausa Muslim family. He is the son of Mohammed Dangote and Mariya Sanusi Dantata, the daughter of Sanusi Dantata [circ 1919-15 April 1997]. Sanusi was the second son of the famous Alhassan Dantata [1877-August 17 1955]. Alhassan Dantata born in Bebeji, Kano, was a Hausa trader in kolanuts and ground nut and he was a major distributor of European goods. He supplied large British companies with raw materials and also had business interests in the Gold Coast. At the time of his…

Russian forces fully occupied the eastern Ukrainian city of Sievierodonetsk on Saturday, both sides said, confirming Kyiv's biggest battlefield setback for more than a month following weeks of some of the war's bloodiest fighting. Ukraine called its retreat from the city a "tactical withdrawal" to fight from higher ground in Lysychansk on the opposite bank of the Siverskyi Donets river. Pro-Russian separatists said Moscow's forces were now attacking Lysychansk. The fall of Sievierodonetsk - once home to more than 100,000 people but now a wasteland - was Russia's biggest victory since capturing the port of Mariupol last month. It transforms…