Watch the remarkable and unforgettable performances of Asake, Rema and Ayra Starr at the recently concluded Afronation 2024 festival in Detroit.Afronation 2024 in Detriot, USA was an unforgettable experience for attendees as superstars like Asake, Rema and Ayra Starr stole the spotlight with their performances at the festival.Tagged as the world’s biggest Afrobeats festival, Afronation 2024 in Detroit lived up to the expectations with some of the biggest names in the music industry in Africa and other parts of the world gracing the stage to deliver some of the best performances on the night.Ayra Starr’s performance at Afronation 2024Sabi girl…
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Monday’s FireKeepers Casino 400 at Michigan shook up the NASCAR Cup Series playoff grid in a big way. With only two regular-season races remaining, here’s where the field stands. 13. Martin Truex Jr. (+77)A 24th-place finish at Michigan was far from ideal for Truex, but he held serve in the standings. Unless a new winner is crowned the victor at Daytona — which is always a possibility — Truex has a chance to lock himself into the postseason and go into Darlington worry-free. 14. Ty Gibbs (+39)The last month has seen a rash of mechanical failures for Gibbs, but a strong…
As the war enters its 907th day, these are the main developments.Here is the situation on Tuesday, August 20, 2024. Fighting Russia said Ukraine attacked the third and last bridge across the River Seym in the Kursk region, where Kyiv mounted a surprise incursion across the border on August 6. In his first comments on the offensive’s objectives, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the aim of the offensive was to create a “buffer zone” and limit the ability of Russia to launch long-range attacks on Ukraine. Ukrainian forces were in control of more than 1,250 square kilometres (483 square miles)…
Drivers caught blocking bus stops in New York City will automatically get a fine starting Monday as part of a new ticketing initiative to clear city bus routes. The MTA is cracking down with new automated camera enforcement, or ACE, which uses cameras mounted on buses to capture real-time data of violations. That info is gathered and sent back to the MTA. If you’re caught blocking a bus lane, a bus stop, or even double parking, expect to get a ticket in the mail. “If you’re double parked on our routes, blocking our buses or if you’re parked in our…
It is projected that in two to three years, Guyana will require over five million tonnes of aggregates GEORGETOWN, Guyana, (DPI) – With the rapid rate of infrastructural transformation taking place across the country, Guyana is set to produce over two million tonnes of aggregates by 2024 to meet the rising demand for building materials, says minister of natural resources, Vickram Bharrat, as he assessed the extensive progress made in the mining sector over the past four years. Aggregates are raw materials produced from natural resources, extracted from pits and quarries. These include gravel, crushed stone, loam and sand, among…
The reason behind the decision to exclude Ivan Toney from Brentford’s first Premier League match of the season has been revealed.Following an impressive 2-1 victory over Crystal Palace, Brentford head coach Thomas Frank in his post-match interview spoke on the reason behind the decision to exclude the team captain and top striker Ivan Toney from the side that played their first Premier League match of the 2024/2025 club football season.Thomas Frank confirmed that Toney’s missing their game against Crystal Palace was due to transfer reasons. The striker who currently has only one year left on his contract and has been…
The NIL era has been controversial, to say the least, but there’s nothing controversial about using your hard-earned cash to help out some friendsFor LSU offensive tackle Will Campbell, that meant using an NIL deal he earned with Bose to give back to the rest of the offensive linemen (and staff) on the LSU squad. He had to make sure the people around him were “right”, and ultimately, he gifted nearly $10,000 in Bose products, per Pete Nakos of On3.“Y’all know I love y’all and appreciate y’all,” Campbell said in the posted video. “I was lucky enough to partner up…
The union says the two main rail companies want to dilute safety provisions, a charge the firms deny.The Canadian government has told the country’s two main railway companies and the Teamsters union to work harder to reach labour deals. The government comments came on Monday as it tries to head off a crippling transport stoppage. Unless agreements are reached, both the Canadian National Railway (CN Rail) and Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CPKC) will shut down at the same time early on Thursday for the first time in history. Canada – the world’s second largest country by territory – relies heavily…
Two women are dead after what town officials call “historic, unprecedented flooding” in Oxford on Sunday. State police have identified the women as 65-year-old Ethelyn Joiner and 71 Audrey Rostkowski, both of Oxford. Oxford Fire Chief Scott Pelletier said firefighters responded to get one of the women out of a vehicle when the car shifted in the flooding and she fell and was swept into the floodwater. One firefighter who tried to help her fell as well and then another firefighter trying to help them went down. Other firefighters then acted to help with the rescue and one is being…
Representatives of the African Risk Capacity (ARC) Group and the African Development Bank (www.AfDB.org) have presented a cheque to the government of Malawi for an insurance payout of $11.2 million, to support the country’s recovery from a devastating drought arising from a weather condition known as El-Nino. The presentation was made at a ceremony presided over by Malawi president Dr. Lazarus McCarthy Chakwera, in Lilongwe, the capital, on August 2. The insurance payment, made in response to the government’s drought insurance policy, was financed by the African Development Bank through its African Development Fund (www.ADF.AfDB.org) and its Africa Disaster Risk Financing…