2013 Chase Awards: Nominate your entertainer

The 2013 CHASE Awards (formerly YEM Awards) is on. To nominate your favorite entertainer in various categories, fill a nomination form on the website “http://evt.so/chase” .

Nomination is opened from 3^rd of September 2013 and closes on the 18^th of September
2013

Weird: Man immune to snake poison after subjecting himself to be bitten 100 times

An unemployed American man, Tim Friede "The venom man" claims to have built immune body system to snake venom and injection after subjecting himself to 100 bites from the world's most poisonous snakes.

He released pictures that show him taking and surviving a bite from a water cobra and was so confident he allowed a deadly black mamba to bite him.

The venom from a black mamba would ordinarily kill anyone within 20 minutes but the 45-year-old shows hardly any ill effects and believes the ordeals he is putting himself through will help develop anti-venoms for the third-world.

Huffington Post: Top 10 richest African Musicians. P’Square came second in the list

Huffington post has released the list of Top 10 richest African musicians.

1-Youssou N’dour
Youssou N’dour brings it home in the No. 1 spot. This Senegalese singer is widely considered the most famous singer alive in Senegal and much of Africa. His style of music is known as mbalax, a mix of Senegalese traditional music in the Serer language and various styles from around the world including Cuban rumba, hip hop, jazz, and soul.

Ventures Africa Magazine: 2013 Top 10 richest Africa people, Aliko Dangote leading with $20.2 billion

A Nigerian-based financial magazine “Ventures Africa Magazine” has revealed an updated list of the 55 billionaires in Africa.

The combined fortune of Africa’s 55 billionaires is $143.88 billion. The average net worth of the members of this exclusive club is $2.6 billion, while the median age of the richest people in Africa is 65 years. The oldest billionaires are Kenyan industrialist, Manu Chandaria, and Egyptian property tycoon, Mohammed Al-Fayed, both aged 84. The youngest billionaires are Mohammed Dewji of Tanzania and Igho Sanomi, a Nigerian oil trader. They are both 38 years old.

Nigeria, South Africa and Egypt lead the pack with the highest number of billionaires at 20, nine and eight respectively. Algeria, Angola, Zimbabwe and Swaziland only have one billionaire each. In all, there are 10 African countries represented on the list.