P. Diddy at 43 yrs says he doesn't plan to propose to his girlfriend or to anyone else anytime soon!

Diddy and his artist-turned-girlfriend Cassie have been dating for a few years, but the hip-hop mogul revealed on a recent episode of “The View” that he doesn’t plan on popping the question to her, or anyone else, anytime soon.

The 43-year-old told Barbara Walters that he’s not looking to get married because he’s not “ready for that responsibility” yet.

“It definitely would be a dream come true for me to just one day just be ready for that,” he said. “The thing is, I’m not really looking because I know the responsibility that comes with that and I think that a lot of people, they jump into that and they’re not honest with themselves. I’m brutally honest with myself. If I’m ready for that responsibility, I think in due time.”

The father of six went on the say that he wants to do the marriage thing right the first time.

“I don’t want to get married and not make that woman be the best,” he said. “I’m a big baby in a grown man’s body. I’ve been close to it and when I’m ready I’ll make the announcement, but when I do it, I’m doing it forever. Know that.”

He added, “I think a lot of people put too much on marriage and not enough on happiness. I’m happy, anybody that is in my life is happy…at least some of the days [laughs]. I just want to be happy and I think it’s important for you to protect your happiness and to love yourself, because then you can love other people the right way.”

Diddy did make a few good points; of course you should be happy before you say “I do.” But, do you think that is the real reason he’s never made a trip down the aisle? The Bad Boy CEO was in a decade-long relationship with Kim Porter and a high-profile relationship with Jennifer Lopez, but either of these situations need with even an engagement.

From the looks of things, Diddy may fall into the “celebs who value their careers over marriage” category with Oprah and Jamie Foxx.  Now don’t get me wrong, there’s nothing wrong with that but if that’s the case then just say it. We just hope he’s not stringing Cassie, 16 years his junior, along with a hope and a dream.

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UK firm seeks to market world's first malaria vaccine...Hope for malaria vaccines by 2015!

Experts say that if malaria is to be defeated, the battle against it must be unrelenting

British drug maker GlaxoSmithKline is seeking regulatory approval for the world's first malaria vaccine after trial data showed that it had cut the number of cases in African children.

Experts say that they are optimistic about the possibility of the world's first vaccine after the trial results.

Malaria, a mosquito-borne parasitic disease, kills hundreds of thousands of people worldwide every year.

Scientists say an effective vaccine is key to attempts to eradicate it.

The vaccine known as RTS,S was found to have almost halved the number of malaria cases in young children in the trial and to have reduced by about 25% the number of malaria cases in infants.

GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) is developing RTS,S with the non-profit Path Malaria Vaccine Initiative (MVI), supported by funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

"Many millions of malaria cases fill the wards of our hospitals," said Halidou Tinto, a lead investigator on the RTS,S trial from Burkina Faso.

Malaria is caused by protozoan parasites that are transmitted by the bites of mosquitoes

"Progress is being made with bed nets and other measures, but we need more tools to battle this terrible disease."

The malaria trial was Africa's largest-ever clinical trial involving almost 15,500 children in seven countries.

The findings were presented at a medical meeting in Durban, South Africa.

"Based on these data, GSK now intends to submit, in 2014, a regulatory application to the European Medicines Agency (EMA)," GSK said in a statement..

The company has been developing the vaccine for three decades,

The statement said that the hope now is that the Geneva-based World Health Organization (WHO) may recommend the use of the RTS,S vaccine from as early as 2015 if EMA drugs regulators back its licence application.

Testing showed that 18 months after vaccination, children aged five to 17 months had a 46% reduction in the risk of clinical malaria compared to unvaccinated contemporaries.

But in infants aged six to 12 weeks at the time of vaccination, there was only a 27% reduction in risk.

A spokeswoman for GSK told the AFP news agency that the company would file its application to the EMA under a process aimed at facilitating new drugs for poorer countries.


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Africa has 55 billionaires... far more than previously thought

Isabel dos Santos is the only Angolan listed as a billionaire

 

Africa has 55 billionaires, far more than previously thought, Nigeria-based Ventures financial magazine says.

They include three women - the mother of Kenya's president, a daughter of Angola's president and a Nigerian oil tycoon and fashion designer.

The richest man is Nigeria's Aliko Dangote, with a fortune of $20.2bn (£12.5bn), Ventures said.

The list is likely to reignite debate about inequality between rich and poor people in Africa, correspondents say.

In April, the World Bank said the number of people living in extreme poverty in Africa had risen in the past three decades from 205 million to 414 million.
'Conservative estimate'
A report earlier this month by research group Afrobarometer suggested that economic growth in Africa was primarily benefiting a small elite.

This is the first time the respected Ventures magazine has published a list of rich Africans, reports the BBC's Tomi Oladipo reports from Nigeria's main city Lagos.

The 55 billionaires it has identified are more numerous than the 16 listed by US financial magazine Forbes last year.

It was able to identify dozens more billionaires by using "on-the-ground knowledge" to overcome hurdles that may have "hampered" other researchers, Ventures said.

The magazine estimated the 55 billionaires' combined fortunes at $143.88bn, an average of a $2.6bn per person.

Of the 55, 20 are Nigerian, nine are South African and eight are Egyptian, Ventures said.

The richest woman is Nigeria's Folorunsho Alakija, who made her $7.3bn fortune mainly in the country's oil industry, it added.

She also studied fashion in London and made dresses for Maryam Babangida, the late wife of Nigerian military ruler Ibrahim Babangida, Ventures said.

Isabel Dos Santos, an Angolan investor and the eldest daughter of Angolan President Jose Eduardo dos Santos, together with Ngina Kenyatta, the mother of Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta, also made the cut, it added.

Ventures listed Harvard-trained businessman Allan Gray as South Africa's richest man, with a fortune of $8.5bn.

"This media-shy South African moneyman controls two investment companies that collectively manage over $50bn in assets," Ventures said.

Nathan Kirsh, a property tycoon in the tiny kingdom of Swaziland, also made it on the list.

He is worth $3.6bn, and has business interests in London and New York, Ventures said.

Ventures editor-in-chief Oozo Eewala told the BBC's Focus on Africa radio programme that its estimate of 50 billionaires was probably conservative.

"There is this culture of you don't necessarily want to show your wealth, considering the gap between rich and poor," he said.

"If you have a lot of money, there are a lot of people that you have to support so we think people may be a little reluctant to be all splashy about what they have and what their assets are."

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Amber Rose Shares Cute Photos Of Baby Boy, Bash

Model beauty, Amber Rose, took to her Instagram and posted these three cute photos of her and her son Sebastian Taylor Thomaz (a.k.a Bash) hanging out in a swimming pool. Awwwhhh! What a cute pair!

Kokori women, who protested nude over the weekend, form shield around Igban shrine to prevent soldiers from destroying it

WOMEN in Kokori, the country home of arrested suspected Delta State kingpin, Kelvin Oniarah, who protested nude, weekend, over alleged desecration of the community’s ‘Igban’ shrine by soldiers, formed a human shield around the shrine, yesterday, to stop military men from destroying it.



It was gathered that the women, who alleged that they saw soldiers with motor-saws, yesterday morning, formed a wall around the shrine and dared the soldiers to shoot them.
The women said they would rather die than allow soldiers to despoil the community shrine, which is a symbol of their tradition.At 12noon, the women were still in a running battle with soldiers, who they prevented from entering the shrine.
The irate women had on Saturday evening marched round the community, reigning curses on soldiers for coming back to destroy the shrine after the first attempt.The angry women were joined, Sunday morning, by youths, who also deposited a coffin at the palace of their embattled monarch, Ogurime-Rime, Ukori 1, which they broke into and vandalized.It was gathered that Sunday protest by women and youths was to show their anger over the disquieting silence of the monarch, his chiefs and leaders of Kokori in the face of the siege to the community by security agents.

However, Kokori Elites, who met in Warri, Sunday, decried the invasion of the community by soldiers, destruction of Kokori shrine and arrest of the Ose Egba, who is only the chief priest of the shrine, belonging to the entire community.The elites urged government to withdraw soldiers from the community, as they were causing tension and aggravating the already bad situation with their actions.
A committee, which included Chief Efe Akpofure, SAN, Chief Peter Igho, Roselinne Eshalomi , Chief William Onakpome as members was set up to liaise with the government on one hand, the women and youths on the other, on how to resolve the problem.
The elites also frowned at the role of a vigilance group leader from Ughelli, who was alleged to have led soldiers to the shrine, saying tthat he destruction of the shrine was at the root of the problem.While they condemned criminality by any of their children, the leaders said the issue of non-development of Kokori should not be swept aside and called for understanding of government for the plight of the people. They called for the release of the chief priest, Michael Omonigho.

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