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The Arab Spring started in Tunisia after a December 17, 2010 self-burning of a street vendor in a provincial town of Sidi Bouzid sparked mass anti-government protests. Unable to control the crowds,...
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Alibaba’s Ant Financial Buys MoneyGram For $880m
Ant Financial, the digital payments arm of e-commerce giant Alibaba, is buying US-based MoneyGram for $880m (£700m).MoneyGram has about 350,000 outlets in nearly 200 countries. Ant Financial has...
Industrial Commodity Prices To Surge In 2017- World Bank
The World Bank has forecasted strong gains for industrial commodities like energy and metals in 2017; holding crude oil price forecast for the year at $55 per barrel, due to tightening supply and...
Alibaba’s Ant Financial Buys MoneyGram For $880m
Ant Financial, the digital payments arm of e-commerce giant Alibaba, is buying US-based MoneyGram for $880m (£700m). MoneyGram has about 350,000 outlets in nearly 200 countries. Ant Financial has...
World Bank Project Rise In Crude Oil Price
The World Bank has forecasted strong gains for industrial commodities like energy and metals in 2017; holding crude oil price forecast for the year at $55 per barrel, due to tightening supply and...
Veterinaries Worried About Rate At Which Donkeys Are Killed
Ghanaian veterinary officers are unhappy with the failure of some countries within the West African sub-region to enforce the ban on slaughtering of donkeys. They are calling for an immediate...
Gov’t Committed To Continual Upgrade of Technical Universities
Minister-designate for Education, Mathew Opoku Prempeh says the Akufo-Addo government would continue with the upgrade of Technical Universities started under the John Mahama administration. He spoke...
Here’s Who Benefits From Keystone, Dakota Pipelines
President Donald Trump announced Tuesday that construction would move forward on the Keystone XL and Dakota Access pipelines, both of which had stalled under the Obama administration. The decision...
China To Improve Market Regulation By 2020
China will work to improve market regulation by 2020 to safeguard fair competition, according to a government plan. The State Council Monday released a five-year plan on market regulation, setting...
English Language Has To Be Maintained As Medium of Instruction In Schools – Napo
The Education Minister-designate has advocated for English language to be maintained as the medium of instruction in schools in the country. Matthew Opoku-Prempeh explained that because students are...
BoG Retains Policy Rate At 25.5%
The Bank of Ghana (BoG) has retained its policy rate at 25.5%. This is due to the fact that the Central Bank views the “risks to inflation and growth as balanced” its governor, Dr. Abdul-Nashiru...
Gov’t To Introduce New Courses For Trainee Teachers
Government is to review the curricula for the country’s trainee teachers to include technical and vocational subjects at the various Colleges of Education, minister -designate for Education, Dr...
Gov’t To Introduce New Courses For Trainee Teachers
Government is to review the curricula for the country’s trainee teachers to include technical and vocational subjects at the various Colleges of Education, minister -designate for Education, Dr...
How President Buhari Is Dealing With Nigerians
President Muhammad Buhari is such a lucky president who came at the time of need; though he had seen; he is attempting to conquer. He has come on a rescue mission. But not lucky in the Nigerian...
Alibaba Posts 54 Percent Rise In Third-Quarter Revenue, Raises 2017 Guidance
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd on Tuesday posted a 54 percent rise in third-quarter revenue, beating analyst estimates, helped by higher sales during its Single's Day shopping event and increased earnings...
Australia and New Zealand To Pursue ‘TPP 12 Minus One’
Australia and New Zealand say they are hopeful of pressing ahead with the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal, despite America's formal withdrawal. The US-led 12-nation agreement was set to cover...
China Hits Back At US Over South China Sea Claims
China has asserted its "indisputable sovereignty" over parts of the South China Sea after the Trump administration vowed to prevent China from taking territory in the region. The Chinese foreign...
Deeper Consultantation Vital – Agyarko
Minister-designate for Energy, Boakye Agyarko, has underscored the need for wider stakeholder consultation in the deal to support the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) under the second compact...
Donald, Uncle Sam and the Rest of Us
Eventually seventy years old Donald John Trump is undoubtedly the President of the United States of America. No calls for vote recounting or blame on the Electoral College system, or indeed an...
Akufo-Addo Should Use Independence Celebrations Money To Build Toilets Instead
“Under the past year, headlines have talked of Ghana as the seventh dirtiest country in the world and then we are going backwards compared with other countries… “We were confronted with the...