Nigeria’s Mathew Obinna (22-0-0-22KO) is set to face Malawi’s Isaac Chilemba (27-9-3-11KO) for the vacant Universal Boxing Organisation world light heavyweight title. The Lagos-born 35-year-old pugilist will be in hostile territory as his clash with Chilemba holds at the Bingu National Stadium, Lilongwe in Malawi September 30. Mathew was last in the ring September 24, 2022, when he secured a Technical Knockout victory over Joe John in the second round of their bout at the Brai Ayanote Boxing Gym inside the National Stadium, Lagos. Unquestionably the biggest boxing event in the East African country’s history, a huge crowd is expected…
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The Russian news agency TASS reports that Yevgeny Prigozhin, leader of the Wagner Group paramilitary organization, was listed as a passenger aboard a downed flight on Wednesday in which there were no survivors. “An investigation has been launched into the crash of the Embraer aircraft that occurred tonight in the Tver region. According to the list of passengers, among them is the name and surname of Yevgeny Prigozhin,” said Rosaviatsiya, Russia’s Federal Air Transport Agency, in a statement. Details about the crash of the Embraer Legacy 600, registered as RA-02795, remain unclear. Some reports say the flight was shot down…
Authorities of the school for deaf and hard of hearing students, Gallaudet University, have awarded diplomas to 24 Black deaf students and four Black teachers of the Kendall School Division II for Negroes, which operated on the campus of Gallaudet University in the 1950s. The 24 Black deaf students and their teachers were denied diplomas 70 years ago due to segregation. The Board of Trustees of the school christened the graduation day “Kendall 24 Day” to salute the gallant students and teachers and apologize for the injustice done to them. The high school diplomas were received by the descendants of the…
Read 2 minutesChina and South Africa on Tuesday issued a joint statement, vowing to elevate bilateral relations and pledging enhanced cooperation in various fields. In the face of emerging global challenges, the two sides undertake to strengthen their comprehensive strategic partnership henceforth, actively build a quality China-South Africa community, and play a meaningful and joint role in China-Africa relations and South-South cooperation, the statement said. Charting the course for bilateral relations The two sides further agree that Head-of-State diplomacy is particularly significant to developing China-South Africa relations, said the statement, vowing to maintain regular contact between the two heads of…
Comment on this storyCommentYou’re reading an excerpt from the Today’s WorldView newsletter. Sign up to get the rest free, including news from around the globe and interesting ideas and opinions to know, sent to your inbox every weekday.For a bloc that is often seen as a counterweight to the Western-led international order, the BRICS has a somewhat awkward origin story. In 2001, Jim O’Neill, a British economist at U.S. megafirm Goldman Sachs, came up with the acronym “BRIC” — Brazil, Russia, India and China — to capture the collective power of these major economies on the world stage. No matter…
Nine-time Nigerian League champions Enyimba failed to make it count when it mattered in their preliminary round first leg encounter of the 2023/24 CAF Champions League over the weekend. The People’s Elephant suffered a 4-3 loss away to Al Ahli Benghazi of Libya in a game many thought they didn’t deserve to lose, especially after taking an early lead just three minutes into the match through Chijoke Mbaoma. Despite losing the seven-goal thriller, Mbaoma believes he and his teammates will get it right in this weekend’s second-leg clash in Aba. “Our plan in this game was to get a positive…
Elephant at Garden Route Game Park Our Cape Town Safari Tips will give you plenty of useful tips and advice when planning to go on safari in South Africa. Here you will also find great places to enjoy game drives near Cape Town. The best game drives and safari lodges near Cape Town In South Africa you can explore the magnificent wildlife and join game viewing opportunities many nature reserves and game parks. In South Africa’s national parks, you can either take a self-drive tours with maps provided to you at the entrance gate or you can take a guided tour…
The song “Wynter Time” is a tribute to black radical intellectual Sylvia Wynter. It is inspired by her work Black Metamorphosis: New Natives in a New World, which is about black people producing a culture of resistance in their new context. As a process, it takes place with the land that they work and people of the Americas, and has its basis the cultural practices, values, and ideas that enslaved people brought with them from Africa, and is in opposition to the conditions of oppression and exploitation that they live in. Rather than try to illustrate this specific process, for…
Liberia’s President George Manneh Weah has lauded the African Development Bank for its “significant” support in fostering growth and development in the West African country. In a message conveyed by Liberia’s Ambassador to Côte d’Ivoire Willye Mai King, President Weah thanked the Bank Group, led by Dr. Akinwumi Adesina, for providing critical support to Liberia, including funding the pavement of the Harper-Fish Town highway. Ambassador King relayed the message to Mr. Rufus N. Darkortey, the Bank’s Executive Director representing The Gambia, Ghana, Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Sudan, during a working visit to the Bank’s Abidjan headquarters. The meeting explored ways…
The experience of swiftly transforming our concepts into tangible objects under such circumstances has been invaluable.The most valuable use of drones in agriculture is their ability to take aerial multispectral images. Changing how farmers see their crops A multispectral camera is a specialized device that captures images across various segments of the electromagnetic spectrum, unlike a standard camera, which records images only in the spectrum visible to humans. Just as medical imaging gives doctors data on the condition of their patients’ hearts, a multispectral image gives farmers a wealth of information about their crop fields and soil conditions. By the time…