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NCBA Visa Cardholders: The Olympic & Paralympic Games Paris 2024 are set to happen in Paris and if you’re a sports enthusiast you know this is one of those competitions you should look out for. 

This will be the 17th edition of the Paralympic Games and will be hosted in Paris from August 28 to September 8, 2024. This will also be the first time the event will also be held in Paris.

As this day approaches, digital payments firm Visa is teaming up with NCBA to offer cardholders an exclusive opportunity to attend the competition. The two partners have launched the “spend and win” campaign that will send customers and their companions to the games.

Through the campaign, current and potential customers stand a chance to win the grand prize of a fully paid trip valued at over…

We’ve written before at HuffPost UK about how much “seat fillers” ― people who take the seats of temporarily-absent Oscars guests who’ve got up to pee or socialise ― get paid. 

And while those people earn exactly zero dollars and naught point nil cents for the role, the same cannot be said of hosting the event. 

Jimmy Kimmel, the host of the 2024 Oscars, shared the exact fee for his 2017 and 2018 hosting gig on his show Jimmy Kimmel Live! when chatting with former Oscars host, Wanda Sykes. 

He revealed at the time that his pay was $15,000 for the task, which is honestly less than I’d thought.

It’s still 15k! 

That’s true ― but as he pointed out in conversation with Wanda, “It sounds like a lot for one night but it’s months of…