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Afrobeats Star Oxlade Announces ‘Oxlade From Africa’ World Tour, Starting with North AmericaNigerian singer, songwriter, and performer Ikuforiji Olaitan Abdulrahman, better known as Oxlade, has officially announced his highly anticipated ‘Oxlade From Africa’ world tour.Following the announcement of his debut album, ‘Oxlade From Africa’, set to drop on September 20, 2024, Oxlade is gearing up for an exciting global tour. The tour will kick off in North America, giving fans a chance to experience his captivating performances up close. Taking to his social media to announce the tour, the falsetto singer wrote:From Surulere to the global stage. #OFA World Tour begins October…

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The international break was supposed to be a reset for Arsenal, who drew its last Premier League match after Declan Rice was sent off with a red card. Instead, the break brought the Gunners more anxiety as they watched their Norwegian captain Martin Odegaard limp off the field with an ankle injury during a UEFA Nation’s League match against Austria on Monday night. Norway’s team doctors are optimistic that the ankle is not broken but concede Odegaard could miss several weeks. The injury comes as Arsenal approaches a gauntlet on its schedule.A thin Arsenal squad will face off with London…

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The US vice president and Democratic nominee has failed to back Aysenur Eygi’s family’s call for an independent investigation.Washington, DC – Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris has decried the killing of American activist Aysenur Ezgi Eygi by Israeli forces, but the United States vice president stopped short of endorsing requests for an independent investigation into the incident. In a statement on Wednesday, Harris called the fatal shooting of Eygi in the occupied West Bank last week “tragic” and “unacceptable”. She also urged “full accountability” for the killing. “Israel must do more to ensure that incidents like this never happen again,”…

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Justin Timberlake is due in court on Friday, where he is expected to plead guilty to a lesser charge related to his Hamptons intoxicated driving arrest from a few months ago, according to a Suffolk district attorney spokesperson. It’s not clear what the misdemeanor might be knocked down to, nor what if any fine might be involved. Timberlake had his license suspended because he refused to take a breathalyzer at a traffic stop while in Sag Harbor back in June. He previously pleaded not guilty to a drunken driving charge, and his attorney insisted in early August that he was…

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The African Development Bank Group (www.AfDB.org) has approved $400,000 in grant funding for the Liberia Pension Sector Intervention Project, to support  the expansion of pension coverage  in Liberia. The grant is being sourced from the Capital Markets Development Trust Fund (CMDTF), a multi-donor trust fund, managed by the African Development Bank that supports development of  efficient and diversified capital markets in African countries. The CMDTF is funded by donors including the Ministry for Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation of the Netherlands and the Ministry of Finance of Luxembourg. Liberia`s National Social Security and Welfare Corporation (NASSCORP), the only existing pension…

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Nigerian singer Portable has sparked fresh controversy after ordering his associates to beat a car dealer who failed to deliver his new car from the US.Basically, the incident was captured in a livestream, where Portable was seen yelling at the car dealer, who was seated on the floor, visibly distressed and pleading with him.”Where is my car? I will destroy your life. Where is my car? Are you trying to kill me or scam me? Where is my car?” Portable shouted. Also, he expressed frustration over the delay. He claimed the dealer had failed to deliver his vehicle, shipped from…

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CBS lead NFL analyst Tony Romo has a history of brushing off and firing back at those who have criticized his calls of games over the past several seasons. During a recent appearance on the “Against All Odds with Cousin Sal” podcast, Romo took somewhat of a different approach while discussing takes directed his way via social media. “You get a turtleback in some ways once you play in the NFL, where it’s like things can just kinda hit you and roll right off,” the former Dallas Cowboys starting quarterback said, as shared by Brandon Contes of Awful Announcing. “But that doesn’t mean it doesn’t affect the people…

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Authorities in Borno State rush to provide shelter for residents displaced by the severe flooding.The collapse of a dam in northeast Nigeria has caused severe flooding, destroying thousands of homes and worsening a dire humanitarian crisis. The flooding in Borno State has affected a million people, the state governor said on Wednesday, straining resources as authorities scramble to rescue residents and place them in temporary shelters. Heavy rains had caused a dam to overflow on Tuesday, decimating a state-owned zoo and washing crocodiles and snakes into flooded communities. Al Jazeera’s Ahmed Idris, reporting from Maiduguri in Nigeria, said a “stream…

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A short ferry ride from City Island across the Long Island Sound sits one of New York City’s newest parks — that’s also the nation’s largest potter’s field with over a million New Yorkers buried there since 1868. Hart Island is partly forested but boasts large open fields where geese meander and osprey swoop overhead, with a rocky shoreline overlooking sweeping views of the Long Island Sound. Small white stones mark decades of mass graves across the fields. Until 2021, the Island had been run by the Department of Correction, which used inmate labor to dig mass graves. But that year, a…

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