Aussie Ash Barty wins WTA Finals

World number one Ashleigh Barty spectacularly ended her jinx against defending champion Elina Svitolina to win the WTA Finals on Sunday and scoop the richest prize in tennis history.

Barty, who had never beaten Svitolina in five previous attempts, won 6-4, 6-3 in one hour and 26 minutes at the Shenzhen Bay Sports Centre.

The Australian claimed a record-setting US$4.42 million paycheque — the largest sum ever awarded in men’s and women’s tennis.

Barty’s only loss was to late replacement Kiki Bertens and she became the fifth debutant to win the lucrative round-robin tournament.

“It’s been the most incredible year for me,” Barty said after the match. “I took my opportunities when I got them tonight.

“Pretty happy to play that kind of level in such a big match.”

Svitolina has not won a trophy since claiming the WTA Finals in Singapore last year, which remains the biggest title of her career. She had lost just one set before the final to be on track to claim a maximum prize of $4.725 million before falling short in the decider.

The Ukrainian had taken a liking to the slow indoor hard court, which has been criticised by other players, with her methodical counterpunching overwhelming opponents — but she was thwarted by an irresistible Barty.

The 25-year-old said she would use the off-season to recover from a nagging right knee injury, which forced her to withdraw from the Guangzhou Open in September.

“It’s the priority for me to be healthy for next season,” she said. “The pain is still there. It’s on and off. I have to manage it.”

Both players, who served strongly in Shenzhen, comfortably held service until Barty faced trouble in the ninth game, but she saved a break point and dug deep when it mattered most to fend off Svitolina’s relentless defensive prowess.

An increasingly confident Barty then attacked Svitolina’s serve in the 10th game and claimed the set with a sizzling forehand winner.

The Ukrainian hit back early in the second set and was gifted a break in the third game through a Barty double fault but could not consolidate on serve.

Svitolina’s title defence appeared in tatters when she double faulted to lose serve in the sixth game but courageously broke back.

The see-saw continued when Barty captured another break in a gruelling eighth game before serving it out to cap off a momentous season, which also includes a French Open crown and the year-end number one ranking.

Barty’s season is set to continue when she spearheads Australia’s Fed Cup title hopes against France in the final on November 9-10.

It was the first WTA Finals played in Shenzhen after a five-year run in Singapore and the competition will be based in the southern Chinese city until 2028.

The event’s move to China was highlighted by an eye-watering total prize pool of $14 million.

(AFP)

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Chris Oyakhilome Foundation Offers Free Education to 400 Children In Yola [Video]

Chris Oyakhilome Foundation Offers Free Education to 400 Children In Yola Nigeria

Daji Sani in Yola

The Chris Oyakhilome Foundation International (COFI) has offered free basic education to 400 vulnerable children from conflict-ridden communities in Adamawa State.

The foundation also built a multi-million Naira school and health care facilities to offer free education and healthcare delivery to vulnerable children and communities affected by conflicts in the state.

The Chairperson of the Association of Widows, Adamawa Chapter, Mrs. Hilda Makonto disclosed this at an interactive session with journalists in Yola, the Adamawa capital saturday.

Makonto noted that the location where the school and health centre was built in Demsa Local Government Area (LGA) “is the area mostly affected by farmers-herdsmen conflict, which destroyed more than 10,000 lives and properties worth millions of Naira.
Makonto said she witnessed the inauguration of the facilities penultimate Thursday, adding that the facilities would be beneficial to children of indigent parents who were either affected by Boko Haram insurgency or farmers-herdsmen conflict.
“Many of us lost our husbands to insurgency and farmers-herdsmen conflict and some children lost both parents living with no one to care for them. But we thank God for sending the Chris Oyakhilome Foundation to care for them.”

“This gesture is divinely oriented because God had heard their lingering cries for help such as this for indigent children to go to a world class schools like this one so as to bridge gap between children of the poor and rich in the country,” she said.
She said the widows “are concerned because their children are major benefactors. We thank Pastor Chris Oyakhilome, Found of COFI for giving children of indigent and vulnerable groups the opportunity to have good education and free medical care at no cost.

In a telephone conversation with THISDAY, Head of Education Programme, Innercity Mission School, Vanessa Nosegbe said the school had already enrolled 120 pupils for the 2019/20 academic session.

Nosegbe added that all 120 children enrolled for its free schooling program in line with the mandate of the foundation are children who are from poor homes and vulnerable groups.

She said: “ We have our process of identification of the children we are looking at, if you look at the community they are impoverished. All the pupils here are indigent children.

“Through the leadership of their communities, we were able to sort out the most vulnerable because of the space we have which can take only 400 children. The education of these children is at no cost to their parents and while in school

they are feed at least a meal a day.”

Commending COFI’s intervention, the Deputy Speaker, Adamawa State House of Assembly, Mr. Pwamwakeno Mackondo said the establishment of the school and health care center “is a blessing to the state.”

He said the facilities were of world class standard while promising to seek the intervention of the state government “to construct good road for easy access to the facility, especially for the convenience of the sick who will require free medical care at the health care facility.”

 

Related

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Medikal Accused Of Stealing ‘Kayayo’

VGMA rapper of the year Medikal has become the latest musician to be accused of song theft.

For some time now, Lynx Entertainment signee Kuami Eugene, Guru, Sarkodie and others are always mentioned for sampling songs and copying lyrics but Medikal has finally added his name to the tall list of artistes accused of song stealing.

Medikal has been accused of stealing a song titled “Soa kodi” belonging to one fast rising artiste by name Kobby Rockz. According to Kobby Rockz , Medikal’s new trending song “Kayayo” belongs to him.

According to Kobby Rockz, Medikal reproduced his song after he(Medikal) realised that his(Kobby Rockz) song “Soa Kodi” was trending on twitter.

But we don’t see it as a big deal. There’s nothing wrong to take inspiration from other people’s songs and make some few changes to suit your style and your audience.

Kobby Rockz’s song “Soa kodi” is a great piece same as Medikal’s “Kayayo” and we should just enjoy the two songs. Yes, same beat, same rhythm but it’s definitely not word by word or same storyline. Check it out and be the judge

Source: Ghevent.net

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NDC invites CSOs, others to contribute to its 'People's Manifesto'

The National Democratic Congress (NDC) is accepting contributions from organised groups as it puts together the manifesto ahead of the 2020 elections. The opposition party in a statement issued Sunday and signed by Deputy General Secretary, Peter Boamah Otokunor, requests for ldquo;Policy Memoranda from the general public, Civil Society Organis …

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Aussie Ash Barty wins WTA Finals

World number one Ashleigh Barty spectacularly ended her jinx against defending champion Elina Svitolina to win the WTA Finals on Sunday and scoop the richest prize in tennis history.

Barty, who had never beaten Svitolina in five previous attempts, won 6-4, 6-3 in one hour and 26 minutes at the Shenzhen Bay Sports Centre.

The Australian claimed a record-setting US$4.42 million paycheque — the largest sum ever awarded in men’s and women’s tennis.

Barty’s only loss was to late replacement Kiki Bertens and she became the fifth debutant to win the lucrative round-robin tournament.

“It’s been the most incredible year for me,” Barty said after the match. “I took my opportunities when I got them tonight.

“Pretty happy to play that kind of level in such a big match.”

Svitolina has not won a trophy since claiming the WTA Finals in Singapore last year, which remains the biggest title of her career. She had lost just one set before the final to be on track to claim a maximum prize of $4.725 million before falling short in the decider.

The Ukrainian had taken a liking to the slow indoor hard court, which has been criticised by other players, with her methodical counterpunching overwhelming opponents — but she was thwarted by an irresistible Barty.

The 25-year-old said she would use the off-season to recover from a nagging right knee injury, which forced her to withdraw from the Guangzhou Open in September.

“It’s the priority for me to be healthy for next season,” she said. “The pain is still there. It’s on and off. I have to manage it.”

Both players, who served strongly in Shenzhen, comfortably held service until Barty faced trouble in the ninth game, but she saved a break point and dug deep when it mattered most to fend off Svitolina’s relentless defensive prowess.

An increasingly confident Barty then attacked Svitolina’s serve in the 10th game and claimed the set with a sizzling forehand winner.

The Ukrainian hit back early in the second set and was gifted a break in the third game through a Barty double fault but could not consolidate on serve.

Svitolina’s title defence appeared in tatters when she double faulted to lose serve in the sixth game but courageously broke back.

The see-saw continued when Barty captured another break in a gruelling eighth game before serving it out to cap off a momentous season, which also includes a French Open crown and the year-end number one ranking.

Barty’s season is set to continue when she spearheads Australia’s Fed Cup title hopes against France in the final on November 9-10.

It was the first WTA Finals played in Shenzhen after a five-year run in Singapore and the competition will be based in the southern Chinese city until 2028.

The event’s move to China was highlighted by an eye-watering total prize pool of $14 million.

(AFP)

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Djokovic sweeps past Shapovalov to claim fifth Paris Masters

Novak Djokovic eased to a record-extending fifth Paris Masters title by brushing aside Canadian youngster Denis Shapovalov in Sunday’s final, boosting his hopes of taking the year-end world number one spot.

The top seed claimed a dominant 6-3, 6-4 victory over his 20-year-old opponent, who looked nervous after being the beneficiary of Rafael Nadal’s withdrawal before their scheduled semi-final.

Djokovic will lose top spot in the rankings to Nadal next week, but could still equal Pete Sampras’ record by finishing a sixth year as the world’s best player.

The 33-year-old Nadal is a fitness doubt for the ATP Tour Finals, which start in London on November 10, due to an abdominal muscle strain, while Djokovic has won the season-ending championships five times.

Djokovic, who lost to Russian Karen Khachanov in last year’s Bercy final, saved the only break point he faced as he sealed his fourth win from as many matches against the world number 28 Shapovalov.

The 16-time Grand Slam champion has now won 34 Masters titles, moving to within one of Nadal at the top of the all-time list, and 77 on the ATP Tour in total.

It was Djokovic’s fifth trophy of the season after previous triumphs at Wimbledon and the Australian Open, as well as at the Madrid Open and in Tokyo.

His success adds to his previous Paris Masters titles from 2009 and 2013-2015.

Djokovic makes statement
Djokovic, playing in his 50th Masters final, wasted no time in making a statement, serving an ace on the first point en route to a hold to love.

Nerves were clearly affecting Shapovalov, as he gifted Djokovic an early 2-0 lead with a series of unforced errors.

Shapovalov found his rhythm on serve to get on the board, but the first-set momentum had already been seized by his illustrious opponent, who eased 5-2 in front.

The comfortable opening set for the world number one was wrapped up at the first time of asking with a forehand volley after just 28 minutes on court.

Shapovalov, who claimed his maiden ATP title last month in Stockholm, kicked off the second set with a double fault, before a mishit forehand handed Djokovic a break point.

But the left-handed Canadian recovered with aces on both break point and game point to hold his serve.

The form that he showed in his brilliant quarter-final win over Gael Monfils on Friday was nowhere to be seen, though, and the 32-year-old Djokovic moved to the brink of victory with a break in game seven to lead the second set 4-3.

Shapovalov, who will move into the world’s top 15 next week, gave himself a glimmer of hope by moving to 30-40 on Djokovic’s serve, but the Serbian closed the door, although he was then forced to serve for the title.

He accomplished that on his first match point after only 65 minutes of play with a whipped forehand winner before raising his arms in celebration.

(AFP)

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Kintampo College of Health wins Northern Sector Zone 1 Physician Assistant students Inter-Universities Quiz Competition

The Physician Assistant students of Kintampo College of Health and well-being has won the PASAG National Northern Sector zone 1 Inter-universities and colleges quiz competition organized by the National Physician Assistant students Association ( PASAG National).

The contest was the preliminary stage of the fourth Annual PASAG national Quiz competition which is organized by the Mother Association ( PASAG National) for all institutions offering Physician Assistantship programme in Ghana.

The contest was held on 1st of November 2019 at the CH LH 7 Auditorium, Kintampo college of health.

The COHK team beat Anglican University College of Technology (ANGUTECH) Nkronza and Yamfo college of Health to emerge winners of the keenly contested competition.

It was very competitive with Anglican University leading in both first and second rounds of proceedings.

The contest ended with COH- Kintampo bagging home 49 points followed by ANGUTECH placing second with 41 points and COH-Yamfo placing third with 30.5 points.

This win means Kintampo College of Health will be representing the Northern Sector Zone 1 in the finals of the competition featuring Kintampo, UCC, UHAS, and Garden City university which would be live on GTV.

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Nigerian Blogger Linda Ikeji Names Shatta Wale As Her Favourite Artist

Famous Nigerian blogger, Linda Ikeji who is in the country for the Ghana bloggers summit has mentioned names of Ghanaian artists she’s familiar with.

The mother of one and online journalist during an interview on Citi FM with AJ Sarpong said she knows Shatta Wale, Becca and Sarkodie very well but added that the SM boss is her favourite

Linda, who seemed lost when some names of Ghanaian artists were mentioned to her, demonstrated that our artists really need to do a lot if they want to penetrate into the Nigeria market.

Watch linda ikeji speaking to ghanaian bloggers below

http://bit.ly/2oNqECl

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Chris Oyakhilome Foundation Offers Free Education to 400 Children In Yola [Video]

Chris Oyakhilome Foundation Offers Free Education to 400 Children In Yola Nigeria

Daji Sani in Yola

The Chris Oyakhilome Foundation International (COFI) has offered free basic education to 400 vulnerable children from conflict-ridden communities in Adamawa State.

The foundation also built a multi-million Naira school and health care facilities to offer free education and healthcare delivery to vulnerable children and communities affected by conflicts in the state.

The Chairperson of the Association of Widows, Adamawa Chapter, Mrs. Hilda Makonto disclosed this at an interactive session with journalists in Yola, the Adamawa capital saturday.

Makonto noted that the location where the school and health centre was built in Demsa Local Government Area (LGA) “is the area mostly affected by farmers-herdsmen conflict, which destroyed more than 10,000 lives and properties worth millions of Naira.
Makonto said she witnessed the inauguration of the facilities penultimate Thursday, adding that the facilities would be beneficial to children of indigent parents who were either affected by Boko Haram insurgency or farmers-herdsmen conflict.
“Many of us lost our husbands to insurgency and farmers-herdsmen conflict and some children lost both parents living with no one to care for them. But we thank God for sending the Chris Oyakhilome Foundation to care for them.”

“This gesture is divinely oriented because God had heard their lingering cries for help such as this for indigent children to go to a world class schools like this one so as to bridge gap between children of the poor and rich in the country,” she said.
She said the widows “are concerned because their children are major benefactors. We thank Pastor Chris Oyakhilome, Found of COFI for giving children of indigent and vulnerable groups the opportunity to have good education and free medical care at no cost.

In a telephone conversation with THISDAY, Head of Education Programme, Innercity Mission School, Vanessa Nosegbe said the school had already enrolled 120 pupils for the 2019/20 academic session.

Nosegbe added that all 120 children enrolled for its free schooling program in line with the mandate of the foundation are children who are from poor homes and vulnerable groups.

She said: “ We have our process of identification of the children we are looking at, if you look at the community they are impoverished. All the pupils here are indigent children.

“Through the leadership of their communities, we were able to sort out the most vulnerable because of the space we have which can take only 400 children. The education of these children is at no cost to their parents and while in school

they are feed at least a meal a day.”

Commending COFI’s intervention, the Deputy Speaker, Adamawa State House of Assembly, Mr. Pwamwakeno Mackondo said the establishment of the school and health care center “is a blessing to the state.”

He said the facilities were of world class standard while promising to seek the intervention of the state government “to construct good road for easy access to the facility, especially for the convenience of the sick who will require free medical care at the health care facility.”

 

Related

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Djokovic sweeps past Shapovalov to claim fifth Paris Masters

Novak Djokovic eased to a record-extending fifth Paris Masters title by brushing aside Canadian youngster Denis Shapovalov in Sunday’s final, boosting his hopes of taking the year-end world number one spot.

The top seed claimed a dominant 6-3, 6-4 victory over his 20-year-old opponent, who looked nervous after being the beneficiary of Rafael Nadal’s withdrawal before their scheduled semi-final.

Djokovic will lose top spot in the rankings to Nadal next week, but could still equal Pete Sampras’ record by finishing a sixth year as the world’s best player.

The 33-year-old Nadal is a fitness doubt for the ATP Tour Finals, which start in London on November 10, due to an abdominal muscle strain, while Djokovic has won the season-ending championships five times.

Djokovic, who lost to Russian Karen Khachanov in last year’s Bercy final, saved the only break point he faced as he sealed his fourth win from as many matches against the world number 28 Shapovalov.

The 16-time Grand Slam champion has now won 34 Masters titles, moving to within one of Nadal at the top of the all-time list, and 77 on the ATP Tour in total.

It was Djokovic’s fifth trophy of the season after previous triumphs at Wimbledon and the Australian Open, as well as at the Madrid Open and in Tokyo.

His success adds to his previous Paris Masters titles from 2009 and 2013-2015.

Djokovic makes statement
Djokovic, playing in his 50th Masters final, wasted no time in making a statement, serving an ace on the first point en route to a hold to love.

Nerves were clearly affecting Shapovalov, as he gifted Djokovic an early 2-0 lead with a series of unforced errors.

Shapovalov found his rhythm on serve to get on the board, but the first-set momentum had already been seized by his illustrious opponent, who eased 5-2 in front.

The comfortable opening set for the world number one was wrapped up at the first time of asking with a forehand volley after just 28 minutes on court.

Shapovalov, who claimed his maiden ATP title last month in Stockholm, kicked off the second set with a double fault, before a mishit forehand handed Djokovic a break point.

But the left-handed Canadian recovered with aces on both break point and game point to hold his serve.

The form that he showed in his brilliant quarter-final win over Gael Monfils on Friday was nowhere to be seen, though, and the 32-year-old Djokovic moved to the brink of victory with a break in game seven to lead the second set 4-3.

Shapovalov, who will move into the world’s top 15 next week, gave himself a glimmer of hope by moving to 30-40 on Djokovic’s serve, but the Serbian closed the door, although he was then forced to serve for the title.

He accomplished that on his first match point after only 65 minutes of play with a whipped forehand winner before raising his arms in celebration.

(AFP)

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Wikipedia citations get way more legit with the addition of books

Everyone knows that to legitimize anything you read on Wikipedia, the crowd-sourced online encyclopedia, you need to scroll to the bottom of the page and check out the references, notes, and citations (or click the little footnote link in the text).

The Internet Archive, known for its Wayback Machine, will now be a resource for book-based citations if that text exists within its library. Previously, only citations linking back to an online source were viewable. Now, some book references will be available online as well.

In a Tuesday post about “weaving books into the internet,” the San Francisco-based non-profit explained how it was taking digitized versions of books and matching them with corresponding Wikipedia citations, so long as those citations reference specific page numbers. 

That means you don’t simply have to trust that some fact about Daylight Saving Time really was sourced from the book listed. Now you can see why the Wikipedia entry seems so sure about how ancient Romans kept time. 

The book previews are hosted on archive.com and provide context ofnwhere whatever fact, quote, or tidbit came from. Right down to the chapter, preceding paragraphs, and in some cases the entire book. You can also borrow digital copies of certain books.

By the numbers, the Internet Archive has already linked 130,000 book references on Wikipedia to 50,000 digital books. It’s planning to keep it going. But it costs the non-profit about $20 per book for the digital transformation.

Google Books is another book sourcing option if you’re interested in taking more of a DIY approach, since it’s not linked to Wikipedia citations. You still have to manually search for a reference material and see if Google has a copy scanned. 

Wikipedia can feel like a dubious source because so many people contribute and there’s so much potential for inaccuracy, but now we’ve got even more receipts.

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Kintampo College of Health wins Northern Sector Zone 1 Physician Assistant students Inter-Universities Quiz Competition

The Physician Assistant students of Kintampo College of Health and well-being has won the PASAG National Northern Sector zone 1 Inter-universities and colleges quiz competition organized by the National Physician Assistant students Association ( PASAG National).

The contest was the preliminary stage of the fourth Annual PASAG national Quiz competition which is organized by the Mother Association ( PASAG National) for all institutions offering Physician Assistantship programme in Ghana.

The contest was held on 1st of November 2019 at the CH LH 7 Auditorium, Kintampo college of health.

The COHK team beat Anglican University College of Technology (ANGUTECH) Nkronza and Yamfo college of Health to emerge winners of the keenly contested competition.

It was very competitive with Anglican University leading in both first and second rounds of proceedings.

The contest ended with COH- Kintampo bagging home 49 points followed by ANGUTECH placing second with 41 points and COH-Yamfo placing third with 30.5 points.

This win means Kintampo College of Health will be representing the Northern Sector Zone 1 in the finals of the competition featuring Kintampo, UCC, UHAS, and Garden City university which would be live on GTV.

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Hamilton Wins Sixth Formula 1 World Championship At United States Grand Prix

Lewis Hamilton sealed his sixth world drivers’ title with second place in the United States Grand Prix.

The result means Hamilton becomes the second most successful F1 driver of all time – moving him to within one championship of all-time record-holder Michael Schumacher, whose tally of seven is now within his reach.

Hamilton failed in a valiant attempt to win the race by trying a different strategy to Mercedes team-mate Valtteri Bottas but that did not matter such was his points advantage.

Hamilton held off Max Verstappen for second as Bottas stroked to victory.

Hamilton had said before the race that he was not thinking of sealing the championship in Austin, Texas, only of winning the race, and he drove with the fierce competitive instinct that has defined his season and career.

His decision to run long, do a single pit stop and try to hold off his rivals at the end did not quite work out – Bottas passed him with three laps to go – but it was a drive befitting the towering achievement he was to secure at the end of the race.

Hamilton’s sixth title has also moved him clear of the legendary Argentine Juan Manuel Fangio.

“It’s just overwhelming,” he said. “It was such a tough race. Yesterday was a tough day. I really just wanted recover and deliver the one-two. I didn’t think the one-stop was going to be possible. I am filled with so much emotion. It is an honour to be up there with those greats.

“My dad told me when I was six or seven years old to never give up. I was hopeful I might be able to win but I didn’t have it in the tyres.”

Asked what he could go on to achieve in his career, Hamilton said: “I don’t know about championships but as an athlete I feel fresh as can be. We won’t let up, we’ll keep pushing.”

Hamilton has secured the championship with 10 victories out of the 19 races held so far this season, with two remaining in Brazil and Abu Dhabi.

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Watch How San Pedro Crashed Out Asante Kotoko From CAF Confederations Cup [HIGHLIGHTS]

Ivorian side, San Pedro halted Asante Kotoko’s dreams of making it to the CAF Confederations Cup group phase.

The Porcupine Warriors lost by 2:0 in Abidjan in the return leg encounter after recording a 1:0 win in the first leg at the Baba Yara Sports.

Goals from Cheick Soumaro and Amede Diomande handed the home side victory in the play-off round second leg fixture at the Felix Houphouet Boigny Stadium in Abidjan.

San Pedro qualifies on 2:1 goal aggregates.
Kotoko began this season’s African campaign in the Caf Champions League where a first-round loss to Etoile Sahel of Tunisia forced a demotion to the second-tier Confederation Cup championship.

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Keta SunSet Win 2019 Copa Lagos Beach Soccer Cup

Ghana Beach Soccer champions Sunset Sports Keta defeated Gidi Sharks 5-3 to win the CopaLagos2019 Club Challenge in Nigeria. Sunset Sports also set a record with a 15-3 win over Pepsi Academy. The Ghanaian team paraded players like Robert Nyadedzor, Rueben Larli Semabia, Kini Ticor, Dekpey Eugene and Michael Sema (C). Others are Dan …

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Nigerian Blogger Linda Ikeji Names Shatta Wale As Her Favourite Artist

Famous Nigerian blogger, Linda Ikeji who is in the country for the Ghana bloggers summit has mentioned names of Ghanaian artists she’s familiar with.

The mother of one and online journalist during an interview on Citi FM with AJ Sarpong said she knows Shatta Wale, Becca and Sarkodie very well but added that the SM boss is her favourite

Linda, who seemed lost when some names of Ghanaian artists were mentioned to her, demonstrated that our artists really need to do a lot if they want to penetrate into the Nigeria market.

Watch linda ikeji speaking to ghanaian bloggers below

http://bit.ly/2oNqECl

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Wikipedia citations get way more legit with the addition of books

Everyone knows that to legitimize anything you read on Wikipedia, the crowd-sourced online encyclopedia, you need to scroll to the bottom of the page and check out the references, notes, and citations (or click the little footnote link in the text).

The Internet Archive, known for its Wayback Machine, will now be a resource for book-based citations if that text exists within its library. Previously, only citations linking back to an online source were viewable. Now, some book references will be available online as well.

In a Tuesday post about “weaving books into the internet,” the San Francisco-based non-profit explained how it was taking digitized versions of books and matching them with corresponding Wikipedia citations, so long as those citations reference specific page numbers. 

That means you don’t simply have to trust that some fact about Daylight Saving Time really was sourced from the book listed. Now you can see why the Wikipedia entry seems so sure about how ancient Romans kept time. 

The book previews are hosted on archive.com and provide context ofnwhere whatever fact, quote, or tidbit came from. Right down to the chapter, preceding paragraphs, and in some cases the entire book. You can also borrow digital copies of certain books.

By the numbers, the Internet Archive has already linked 130,000 book references on Wikipedia to 50,000 digital books. It’s planning to keep it going. But it costs the non-profit about $20 per book for the digital transformation.

Google Books is another book sourcing option if you’re interested in taking more of a DIY approach, since it’s not linked to Wikipedia citations. You still have to manually search for a reference material and see if Google has a copy scanned. 

Wikipedia can feel like a dubious source because so many people contribute and there’s so much potential for inaccuracy, but now we’ve got even more receipts.

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Hamilton Wins Sixth Formula 1 World Championship At United States Grand Prix

Lewis Hamilton sealed his sixth world drivers’ title with second place in the United States Grand Prix.

The result means Hamilton becomes the second most successful F1 driver of all time – moving him to within one championship of all-time record-holder Michael Schumacher, whose tally of seven is now within his reach.

Hamilton failed in a valiant attempt to win the race by trying a different strategy to Mercedes team-mate Valtteri Bottas but that did not matter such was his points advantage.

Hamilton held off Max Verstappen for second as Bottas stroked to victory.

Hamilton had said before the race that he was not thinking of sealing the championship in Austin, Texas, only of winning the race, and he drove with the fierce competitive instinct that has defined his season and career.

His decision to run long, do a single pit stop and try to hold off his rivals at the end did not quite work out – Bottas passed him with three laps to go – but it was a drive befitting the towering achievement he was to secure at the end of the race.

Hamilton’s sixth title has also moved him clear of the legendary Argentine Juan Manuel Fangio.

“It’s just overwhelming,” he said. “It was such a tough race. Yesterday was a tough day. I really just wanted recover and deliver the one-two. I didn’t think the one-stop was going to be possible. I am filled with so much emotion. It is an honour to be up there with those greats.

“My dad told me when I was six or seven years old to never give up. I was hopeful I might be able to win but I didn’t have it in the tyres.”

Asked what he could go on to achieve in his career, Hamilton said: “I don’t know about championships but as an athlete I feel fresh as can be. We won’t let up, we’ll keep pushing.”

Hamilton has secured the championship with 10 victories out of the 19 races held so far this season, with two remaining in Brazil and Abu Dhabi.

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How Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez Kayoed Sergey Kovalev To Win WBO Light-Heavyweight Title

Mexican great Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez further added to his legacy by taking the WBO light-heavyweight crown from Sergey Kovalev with a devastating 11th-round knockout in Las Vegas.

Middleweight king Canelo, 29, had stepped up two weight divisions to face the 36-year-old Russian.

It proved a close fight which failed to ignite before an explosive combination from Canelo ended Kovalev’s night.

Canelo has now won world titles in four weight divisions.

A cagey encounter at the MGM Grand appeared to be heading to a 12th round and one for the judges to decide before a left hook-right hand combination came from nowhere and left Kovalev floundering on the ropes.

Judges had Canelo slightly ahead at that point on their scorecards.

Watch highlights of the bout below;

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Watch How San Pedro Crashed Out Asante Kotoko From CAF Confederations Cup [HIGHLIGHTS]

Ivorian side, San Pedro halted Asante Kotoko’s dreams of making it to the CAF Confederations Cup group phase.

The Porcupine Warriors lost by 2:0 in Abidjan in the return leg encounter after recording a 1:0 win in the first leg at the Baba Yara Sports.

Goals from Cheick Soumaro and Amede Diomande handed the home side victory in the play-off round second leg fixture at the Felix Houphouet Boigny Stadium in Abidjan.

San Pedro qualifies on 2:1 goal aggregates.
Kotoko began this season’s African campaign in the Caf Champions League where a first-round loss to Etoile Sahel of Tunisia forced a demotion to the second-tier Confederation Cup championship.

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