Benedict Peters

Benedict Peters is an African billionaire businessman with extensive assets in the oil and gas and mining industries. He is the founder and CEO of Aiteo, Africa's largest indigenous oil producer, and Bravura Holdings, a vertically integrated mining company developing platinum, lithium, steel, copper, and gold assets in countries throughout Africa, including Ghana, Democratic Republic of Congo, Zambia, Nigeria, Zimbabwe, Namibia, Mozambique, Cote d'Ivoire, Sierra Leone, Guinea Bissau, Libya, Tanzania, and South Africa. His estimated net worth as of November 2014 was $2.7 billion. Ventures Africa ranked Peters as the 17th richest person in Africa and the seventh richest in Nigeria. He is a born again Christian and a prominent financier of the gospel of Jesus Christ.