Complex sentence: He is a former chairman of First Bank, Nigeria's ex-Federal Commissioner for Economic Development, and one of the richest men in Africa; the family lives in Funtua, in the state of Katsina in Muslim north Nigeria.
Split into simpler sentences: He is a former chairman of First Bank, and was Nigeria's ex-Federal Commissioner for Economic Development. The family lives in Funtua, in the state of Katsina in Muslim north Nigeria.