R&B singer The Weeknd has promised to donate $1m (£700,000) to Ethiopians caught up in the conflict in Tigray. The star, born Abel Tesfaye in Canada, is the son of Ethiopian immigrants. “My heart breaks for my people of Ethiopia as innocent civilians ranging from small children to the elderly […]
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Singer and business mogul Rihanna is known to dig deep into her bag when making donations. As such, Rihanna and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey are donating the sum of $15 million; through her foundation, to mental health services in America. On Thursday, the Fenty Beauty mogul, 32, announced that her […]
Rihanna just might be the only celebrity who could roll out a new collection amidst a pandemic and national uprising without seeming tone-deaf. This week brought the latest Fenty genderless drop, which is only the first of a three-part series that will continue through mid-July. It’s not so much the […]
Canadian singer The Weeknd has donated $500,000 to various organizations in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement amid protests demanding justice for George Floyd. The Weeknd shared a series of receipts of the donations along with ‘thank you’ messages from recipients after making his donations on June 1st. READ […]
The leading short-form video platform, TikTok, announced today that it will be donating US$10 million to Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance for immunisation drives across Africa. Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance is a public-private partnership that helps vaccinate half the world’s children against some of the world’s deadliest diseases. This donation will […]
American pop-rock singer Pink has revealed that she and her three-year-old son Jameson tested positive for the coronavirus. The 40-year-old singer, whose real name Alecia Beth Moore, took to Instagram to share a sweet snap with her son with a lengthy caption about the diagnosis before slamming the US government […]
American media executive, Oprah Winfrey, has announced her plan to donate a whooping sum of $10 million as Covid-19 relief effort; including a new venture to help get food to vulnerable Americans during the coronavirus epidemic. Winfrey, one of America’s richest and most influential women, made the announcement on her […]
An Ed Sheeran fan who was diagnosed with aggressive ovarian cancer has revealed that the British pop singer donated his guitar to help fund treatment for a last-chance drug. Actor Suzie Aries, 28, Hornchurch in Essex has been crowdfunding to pay for life-changing treatment for her rare type of ovarian […]
American singer, Justin Bieber has made a donation to help China fight the coronavirus outbreak. The 25-year-old singer sent his prayers to the country following the outbreak of the virus, which has infected almost 60,000 people in China alone and caused more than 1,300 deaths. He took to Instagram on […]
Former Big Brother Naija housemate, Ifu Ennada, says she has donated to Nollywood actor, Ernest Asuzu. Ernest has been battling with stroke since 2014. He was recently seen begging for alms at Oke-Afa in Isolo, Lagos. In a post on Instagram on Friday, Ifu Ennada called for donations to support […]