An elderly couple are suing an art dealer who bought an African face mask from them for £129 and sold it for £3.6million. The unnamed pair, aged 81 and 88, from Nimes in France, were clearing out their home in 2021 and decided to sell the ‘Ngil’ mask. In September of that year, they sold it to a dealer, known as Mr Z. After paying a small price for it, he sold it at an auction …
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A South African lady, Dikeledi Mokone, has shown off her weight-loss transformation. Dikeledi, who shared her before and after photos via Twitter on Tuesday, June 27, 2023, began working on her body transformation exactly a year ago. “Nna I fetched my body Bathong. All I kept saying was I want to see what will happen if I don’t stop, the beauty is loving all the things I’ve been doing the past year. I learned how to swim. Became …
South African soccer star, Thembinkosi Lorch has been found guilty of strangling and assaulting his former girlfriend, Fundiswa Nokuphiwa Mathithibala. The Randburg Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday, June 6, 2023, found the 30-year-old footballer guilty of assault with intent to cause bodily harm on Mathithibala. “The case relates to a complaint laid with the Midrand Police by Mathithibala in September 2020, that resulted in his arrest and subsequent release on bail of R2000,” the National Prosecuting Authority of …
Team Nigeria has secured yet another gold medal at the ongoing Commonwealth Games in Birmingham. The quartet of Tobi Amusan, Favour Ofili, Rose Chukwuma and Grace Nwokocha emerged as winners of the 4x100m Women’s relay race today August 7 The quartet set a new African Record of 42.10s to win what was Nigeria’s 11th gold medal in Birmingham and a historic Commonwealth Games medal. Watch a video of the race below.
A Gulfstream and Dubai Multi Commodities Center’s sponsored event All awardees are to be featured on CNN, Bloomberg others Oyo State governor, Engineer Seyi Makinde, Governor of Akwa Ibom State, Udom Gabriel Emmanuel, Olu of Warri, Ogiame Atuwatse III, the founder of the Misk Foundation and Crown Prince of Saudi Mohammed bin Salman have been nominated to receive the African Industrial and Development Awards 2022. The award is being organised by Dotmount Communications in partnership with The Times of Jerusalem, …
Nigeria and Benin Republic are likely co-host the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations, Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) president Amaju Pinnick, has said. Guinea has been awarded the hosting rights for 2025 but Africa’s football ruling body, CAF may likely strip Guinea of the hosting right of the biennial African football showpiece. According to Pinnick, CAF is on course to withdraw the hosting right from the West African country and Nigeria is working on a bid with Benin Republic. “We …