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Alabi Oreoluwa Forbes magazine has named the popular music star, Robyn Fenty, popularly known as Rihanna, the world’s richest female musician. Rihanna, the magazine said, has reached a billionaire status with an estimated net worth of $1.7 billion. Her latest milestone makes her the wealthiest female musician in the world and the second wealthiest female entertainer, behind Oprah Winfrey. Most of her fortune, estimated on Wednesday by Forbes, does not come from chart-topping singles, but from the success of her cosmetics empire. Rihanna, 33, launched Fenty Beauty in 2017 with a dream to create a cosmetics company that made “women everywhere [feel] included. In it’s first year, the company of which she owns 50 per cent stocks achieved sales of $550m, far more than other celebrity-endorsed makeup ranges. Forbes magazine estimates that the company is now worth “a conservative $2.8bn. “Rihanna’s stake in the company, combined with a 30% stake in the lingerie line Savage X Fenty and mone...

OLUKULUJO KAYOBOLA  The Catholic Church has launched an investigation after two missionary nuns have become pregnant while working in Africa. It was reported that the two women, who belonged to separate religious orders in Sicily, are expecting children despite their vows of chastity. One of them, a mother superior, found she was several weeks pregnant while the other woman discovered the news when she complained of stomach pain. Both nuns are now facing pressure to quit religious life and the scandal has caused ‘consternation’ among the clergy. One of the women, aged 34, discovered her pregnancy when she went to hospital with stomach pain, according to Italian news agency ANSA. Her religious order has not been identified, but reports say she belonged to a convent in Sicily’s Nebrodi mountains. She has now moved to Palermo to prepare for the birth of her child. The nun may now choose to give up her monastic life altogether and focus on raising her child, ...

By Adekunle T. Femi Reported by the BBC news, the Zimbabwean independence icon turned authoritarian leader died on 6th of September, 2019. It has been gathered that Mr Mugabe was receiving treatment in a hospital in Singapore since April before he died. Robert Mugabe was born on 21 February, 1924 in what was called then the Rhodesia- a British colony. It was reported that he (Robert Mugabe) was imprisoned for more than a decade without trial, after criticising the government in 1964. In 1973, he was still in prison when he was chosen as president of Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU), of which he was a founding member. Robert Mugabe became the president on 31st December, 1987 up till 21st November, 2017. He was forcefully overthrown in a military coup in 2017, after his 37 years in power. The former president was commended for improving the access to health and educational sector for the black majority. It was gathered that his later years were marked by violent acts and viol...

By ADEKUNLE T. FEMI     A Spanish woman,Maria Angeles Duran, aged 49, from Vigo in Spain's northwestern region of Galatia,claims she legally owns the Sun, and charges people for the use of the celestial body. Angeles claims that the sun now officially belongs to her because she has registered the celestial body in her name at a local notary office. This might sound so absurd, but she has already started billing people for the use of the sun.    Angeles said, "I know the law, I backed my claim legally, I am not stupid, I know the law, I did it, but anyone else could have done it. It simply occurred to me first."    Ms Angeles won the right to take ebay to court after it blocked her account because she has been selling plots of land on the sun. According to her, her sun-selling idea was inspired by a man who registered the moon and many of the planets in the solar system under his name in September 2010. She apparently received 600 orders of sun ...

Details from the White House's annual  salary report  released yesterday afternoon. Jared Kushner, Assistant to the President and Senior Advisor Ivanka Trump, First Daughter and Advisor to the President Reed Cornish, Assistant to the President for Intergovernmental and Technology Initiatives (who is worth more than $100 million according to financial disclosures) The highest paid employees, $179,700/year: - Steve Bannon, Chief Strategist and Senior Counselor - Kellyanne Conway, Assistant to the President and Senior Council - Hope Hicks, Director of Strategic communicationsStephen Miller, Senior Policy Advisor - Reince Priebus, Chief of StaffSean Spicer, Press Secretary - Daniel Scavino, Director of Social Media - Thomas Bossert, Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism - Andrew Bremberg, Director of the domestic policy council - Ricky Dearbon, Deputy Chief of Staff for Legislative, Cabinet, Intergovernmental affairs and implementati...