President of World Bank, Jim Yong Kim, commends D'banj

D'banj has been commended by the president of World Bank,  Korean-American physician and anthropologist Jim Yong Kim for his devotion to the African Union's year of Women's empowerment, where he is encouraging global artists to raise awareness about poverty and other related issues. What Kim wrote on his Facebook page about D'banj above...

Michael Schumacher's wife sells off his $40m private jet and holiday mansion as 'he won't use them again'

Michael Schumacher was left disabled after a ski accident in December 2013 that caused major brain injuries which doctors say he will never fully recover from. According to new reports, Schumacher's wife Corina has sold his $40million private jet and a holiday mansion in Norway after accepting the formula legend won't be able to use them again. Insiders say his rehabilitation is not progressing.

Michael was worth over $600m before the devastating accident left him unable to function. He still can't speak and is immobile. Corina, who manages his empire, is reportedly also planning to sell another family home in France, where Michael and his children were staying before the ski accident.

The family currently lives in their mansion in Switzerland which has been specially adapted for the 47 year Formula 1 legend with a team of doctors, nurses and technicians working around the clock.

Janet Jackson and her billionaire husband attend Giorgio Armani's party in Milan

Since 48 year old Janet Jackson got married to her Qatar-based business magnate Wissam Al Manaso in 2012, it has become rare to see her in public, so you can imagine the amazement of seeing photos of  her at Giorgio Armani's 40th Anniversary celebration at Nobu in Milan, Italy on Wednesday.

Janet Jackson brought her husband as her date for the dinner. She tried to go incognito by wearing a hooded blazer and black pants but one sharp and quick photographer recognized her and was able to grab a couple of shots of her and her billionaire husband walking into the reception hand in hand.
Janet Jackson had not walked a red carpet since October 2014, for the Vogue Fashion Dubai Experience before that, the singer was last seen by paparazzi in February.

Indonesia executes 8 prisoners including 4 Nigerians, spares Filipino woman at last minute

Indonesia has executed 8 of the 9 people convicted for drug offenses. The men all pictured above were taken to a jungle clearing on the island Nusakambangan according to local media reports and were executed at midnight Indonesia time by 12 police privates (that would be about 6pm Nigerian time). The only woman amongst them, Mary Jane Fiesta Veloso, was spared last minute after new information emerged about her case. A woman who reportedly tricked her into carrying drugs turned herself in earlier today. The bodies of the men will be taken by road to Jakarta later today.

Photo: Indonesian firing squad head to prison Island where 9 men will be executed tonight

Heavily armed firing squad in full body armour have been spotted in a boat heading to the Indonesian prison island of Nusakambangan where 9 men, including 4 Nigerians, convicted of drug offenses are due to be shot tonight. The men will be shot in the heart and their coffins have already been taken to the Island. No clemency, despite pleas from the prisoners' families and world organizations.

Four Nigerians set to be executed in Indonesia tomorrow

Baring any last minute changes, four Nigerians along with 6 other nationals will be executed for drug related offenses in Indonesia tomorrow April 25th.

According to an Indonesian foreign Affairs official, the convicted foreigners will be taken to Nusakambangan, the prison island off Java where they are to be executed. Those to be executed also include 2 Australians, one Philippine, one Brazilian and one Indonesian. Australian and Nigerian government have been clamoring for clemency for the drug offenders but their plea appears to have fallen on deaf ears as the Indonesian government has finalized plans to execute the drug traffickers.

It is a law in Indonesia that anyone caught with banned drugs will be executed, foreigners& nationals.

'Everything comes from above,' says world's oldest living person

Jeralean Talley, the world's oldest-known living person, will celebrate her 116th birthday in Detroit next month thanking God for her longevity.
Born on May 23, 1899, Talley climbed to the top of a list kept by the Gerontology Research Group, which validates the ages of the world's longest-living people, after Gertrude Weaver died at 116 in Arkansas this month.

"Everything comes from above. Everything just comes from above," Talley told Reporters, surrounded by her family, at her one-storey home in the Detroit suburb of Inkster.

Talley was born in Georgia and moved to Michigan in 1935 with her husband, Alfred Talley, for his job at a Ford plant. He died in 1988.

Sharing apple pies from McDonald's with the youngest member of her five-generation family, two-year-old Armmell Holloway, Talley said: "I feel just like I feel. I feel good."

Talley, who worked in a laundry washing and ironing, lives with her daughter, Thelma Holloway, 77.
Pictures of Martin Luther King Jr. and John F. Kennedy hang on the wall in the house Talley and her husband built in 1963.

Holloway said her mother would not have predicted the election of a fellow black person as U.S. president, in the shape of Barack Obama.