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Sallah Struggles: Soaring Tomato Prices Push Nigerian Families to the Brink

As Nigerians prepare for the Sallah celebration, skyrocketing prices of tomatoes and peppers are worsening the financial strain on households, food vendors, and traders...

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A Rare drawings by Muhammad Ali sell for nearly $1Million US Dollars

A rare collection of drawings, sketches and paintings by legendary boxer, Muhammad Ali has sold at auction for nearly $1m (£733,760). About 26 art works were auctioned at Bonhams auction house in New York with the auction company stating that the most anticipated works, Sting Like a Bee, sold for $425,000 (£311,853), more than 10 times its pre-sale estimate. Ali is one of the greatest ever athletes, activist and poet, but his artistic talents are less known. During his lifetime he drew and painted as he was encouraged by his father who was a professional artist. "Muhammad Ali was a cultural icon who defined a generation. His artwork depicts those subjects close to his heart: Boxing, Civil Rights, Religion...

China designed secret cages to breed bats for coronavirus experiments in Wuhan – New report

A Chinese lab in Wuhan, investigated by the World Health Organization over the origins of Covid-19 reportedly designed secret cages for breeding bats for virus experiments. The Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) was found to have filed patents for "bat rearing cages" and "artificial breeding" systems in the months before covid-19 first emerged in 2019 December. The institute located just miles from Covid's ground zero has been subjected to scrutiny since the virus emerged.  The World Health Organisation released a report this week exonerating the lab, saying the lab wasn't responsible for Covid-19 origins, but the US and the UK  have branded the WHO's report a "whitewash" after new revelations about the work of Chinese scientists led by...

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