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X-Factor's Kingsland Road Booked For Cup Final

The band, who competed in last year’s X Factor series, will perform for supporters ahead of kick off. Arsenal and Manchester City will compete for the trophy at Wycombe Wanderers’ Adams Park stadium on Thursday (7.45pm KO). Arsenal will be looking to retain the Cup for the fourth consecutive season. Soprano Emily Haig will perform the national anthem. She previously sang at this year’s FA Women’s Cup Final in Milton Keynes. The match will be shown live on BT Sport 1 with coverage beginning at 7.30pm. Kingsland Road’s Josh Zaré said: "We're absolutely buzzing to be playing at the FA WSL Continental Cup Final. “Especially for me as I'm a massive Arsenal fan but Matt is cheering for Manchester City so may the best team win!" Before the match children aged 5-16 years old can take part in a free, interactive Fanzone, brought by Continental Tyres. Fans will have the chance to meet, chat, and play with England star Fran Kirby and Reading’s Kirsty McGee, in games...

Angola set to be largest African oil producer Will overtake Nigeria in 2016

ANGOLA is set to overtake Nigeria as Africa’s largest producer of crude oil within a matter of years, according to a report by the International Energy Agency (IEA). In its Africa Energy Outlook special report, the IEA predicts that Nigeria will lose its top spot in 2016 and won’t recover it until at least the early 2020s. Nigeria is producing around 2.37m bbl/d, but this has fallen by around 6% in the space of a year according to data from the US Energy Information Agency. Angola, meanwhile, is currently the world’s 17th biggest energy producer with an output of around 1.9m bbl/d of oil. The group acknowledges that Nigeria is the richest resource centre of the oil sector,” but says that regulatory uncertainty, militant activity and rampant oil theft in the Niger Delta are deterring investment and production. It claims that the value of the estimated 150,000 bbl/d of oil lost to theft – amounting to more than US$5bn/y – would be sufficient to fund universal access to electricit...