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DANGOTE: I AM READY TO BUY ARSENAL AT ‘WHATEVER PRICE’ | This Day
Business mogul, Aliko Dangote, is insisting that soon he will have “enough time and enough resources” to buy Arsenal Football Club, whatever the price. Dangote, 58, is Africa’s richest man having amassed a fortune in the region of $18.4 billion (£12.2 billion). He is currently the 67th richest man in the world.
He first spoke of his interest in purchasing the Gunners two years ago and restated it last month when he admitted that one day he hoped to buy the club, adding that he already knew his strategy to take them forward.
US TO PUT WOMAN ON NEW $10 BILL | Guardian
The US will put the image of a woman on an American banknote for the first time in over a century, breaking the lock that white male political heroes have on the greenback. The US Treasury announced Thursday that a yet-unchosen woman, likely “a champion for our inclusive democracy,” will feature on the $10 note from 2020, replacing Alexander Hamilton, the first secretary of the treasury.
I WILL DONATE MY ALLOWANCE TO OSUN WORKERS – MURRAY-BRUCE | Vanguard
THE lawmaker representing Bayelsa East Senatorial District, Senator Ben Murray Bruce, has promised to donate his wardrobe allowance to the unpaid workers in Osun State. He made this known via his Twitter handle. For about seven months now, workers in the Osun State civil service are yet to be paid their salaries.
CHARLESTON CHURCH SHOOTING: 9 KILLED IN WHAT OFFICIALS CALL A HATE CRIME | BBC
Charleston, South Carolina (CNN)A white man walked into a historic African-American church in Charleston, South Carolina, and opened fire during a Bible study class, killing nine people Wednesday evening.
The suspect was still at large early Thursday morning. And the shooting at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, the oldest AME church in the South, is being investigated as a hate crime.
MELISSA RIVERS WILL CO-HOSTFASHION POLICE | Time
Fashion Police is returning to E! in August, despite Kathy Griffin and Kelly Osbourne’s exits from the show. And Joan Rivers’ daughter, Melissa Rivers, is set to co-host the series that once starred her late mother.