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Art By Nigerian Auctions For Record $1.1m At Sotheby’s

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A new auction record was set for the Nigerian-born artist Njideka Akunyili Crosby in New York last week when “Drown” soared to sell for $1,092,500, over three times the high-estimate ($200,000-$300,000), in Sotheby’s Contemporary Art Evening Sale. No fewer than 11 bidders competed for the work that was eventually sold to an anonymous buyer on the telephone.

This was the second time in less than two months that the auction record for Njideka Akunyili Crosby had been broken at Sotheby’s. The previous auction record for the artist was $93,750, set by her “Untitled” work from 2011 at Sotheby’s New York in September 2016.

“Drown” is an intimate self-portrait of the artist with her husband, Justin, and demonstrates beautifully how the layers of Njideka Akunyili Crosby’s work reference the layers of her own identity.

In May next year, Sotheby’s will launch its first dedicated sales of “African Modern and Contemporary Art” in London, led by Hannah O’Leary, Sotheby’s recently-appointed Head of Modern and Contemporary African Art.

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Nigerian Airlines Record 7, 722 Delayed Flights In 3 months

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The Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) has said that domestic airlines operating in the country recorded 7, 722 cases of delayed flights in the third quarter of 2016.

This is contained in a document issued by the NCAA’s Consumer Protection Department which was obtained on Monday by the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos.

The document indicated that 13, 097 flights were operated by eight domestic airlines during the period under review, while 253 flights were cancelled.

It said the airlines in operation were Aero Contractors, Arik Air, Air Peace, Azman Air, Dana Air, First Nation, Med-View and Overland.

Arik, which operated 4, 882 flights, topped the chart of delayed and cancelled flights with 2, 824 and 128 respectively.

This was closely followed by Air Peace, which recorded 1, 383 delayed flights and 16 cancellations out of its 2, 754 flight operations.

Dana Air operated 1, 665 flights with 1, 160 incidences of delayed flights and one cancellation.

The airlines had attributed the delays and cancellations to the lingering scarcity of aviation fuel in the country.

However, in a recent meeting with airline operators, the Minister of State, Aviation, Hadi Sirika, assured them that the government was working assiduously to end the scarcity of the product.

As part of the move, Sirika also held a meeting with oil marketers who informed him of their challenges regarding the importation, supply and distribution of aviation fuel to the airlines.

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Italian Carries Zika In Sperm For Record Six Months

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An Italian man carried Zika in his sperm for six months after showing the first symptoms of the virus, twice as long as in any previously reported case, according to a new study.

Doctors at the Spallanzani Institute for Infectious Diseases in Rome said their monitoring of the now-recovered patient pointed to the possibility of the little-understood virus reproducing itself in the male genital tract.

As a result, the potential for sexual transmission of a virus linked to babies being born with shrunken brains and skulls may be greater than previously thought.

The 30-year-old man began presenting symptoms including fever, fatigue and a skin rash during a visit to Haiti in January.

On his return to Italy, tests showed the Zika Virus RNA was still present in his urine, saliva and sperm 91 days after the onset of symptoms.

After 134 days it was only detectable in his sperm which remained positive after 188 days, the medics said in a report published this week in epidemiology review Eurosurveillance.

That was over twice as long as the 93 days after symptoms onset registered by a 27-year-old Frenchman whose case was highlighted in British medical journal The Lancet last month.

Prior to that the record for Zika showing up in sperm was 62 days after onset of symptoms.

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http://guardian.ng/features/natural-health/italian-carries-zika-in-sperm-for-record-six-months/

Adele’s Hello Beats Taylor Swifts’ Record Of Most Viewed You-Tube Video Within 24Hrs (WATCH VIDEO)

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British singer, Adele, has smashed Taylor Swift’s VEVO record for the most views during the first 24 hours, with new music video “Hello” achieving a whopping 27.7 million streams in the time frame.

That’s over 7 million more than the previous record holder, which was Taylor’s ‘Bad Blood’ at 20.1 million views.

Watch “Hello” Below:

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