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Hong Kong Open: Katie Boulter reaches third WTA final of year

Katie Boulter celebrates victory in Hong Kong

British number one Katie Boulter came through a tough test against Chinese sixth seed Yue Yuan to win 6-2 5-7 6-2 and reach the final of the Hong Kong Open. Boulter will play either Russian top seed Diana Shnaider or Canada’s defending champion Leylah Fernandez on Sunday as she bids for a third WTA title of the year. The second …

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Harry Styles wins People’s ‘sexiest musician alive’ for 2nd year in a row but this upsets runner up who expressed outrage on social media

Harry Styles has been named People’s “sexiest musician alive” for 2024 but this did not go down well with the person who came in second place.  A singer named Role Model (birth name Tucker Harrington Pillsbury) came in second place.  However, Role Model is upset that Harry Styles won People’s “sexiest musician alive” for a second year in a row, …

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Hollywood actor Jay Johnston is jailed for a year for his part in the US January 6 Capitol riots

Hollywood actor Jay Johnston is jailed for a year for his part in the US January 6 Capitol riots

American actor and comedian, Jay Johnston has been sentenced to a year and one day in prison for his connection with the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack.   Jay Johnston, who voiced the role of Jimmy Pesto in “Bob’s Burgers” and played Officer Taylor on “Arrested Development,” pleaded guilty to a felony count of interfering with law enforcement during civil …

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Price of bag of local rice rose 152% to N95,738 in one year – NBS

Price of bag of local rice rose 152% to N95,738 in one year - NBS

The price of a bag (50 kg) local rice rose year-on-year by 152.9 percent to N95,738 in September 2024 from N37,853 in September 2023, according to new data from the National Bureau of Statistics, NBS.   The NBS report titled  ‘Selected Food Price Watch’ for September 2024 showed that the price of 1 kilogram (Kg) of local rice stood at …

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Man sentenced to one year in jail for possession of fraudulent documents used to perpetrate romance scam

Man sentenced to one year in jail for possession of fraudulent documents used to perpetrate romance scam

Justice O.O. Abike-Fadipe of the Special Offences Court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos, on Tuesday, October 8, 2024, convicted and sentenced one Nonso Joseph Ekeocha to one-year imprisonment for possession of fraudulent documents.  Ekeocha was prosecuted by the Lagos Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on a one-count charge bordering on possession of fraudulent documents used to perpetrate …

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