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BUSINESS

African Energy Chamber Launches New Energy Jobs Portal and Pledges to Boost Local Content

The platform will assist local and international companies in attracting local talent across 30 different skills set in the oil & gas, power and renewable energy sectors In order to maximize the saving of local jobs and assist in the...

Atlas Petroleum Resumes Development of OML109 in Nigeria

OML 109 comprises 14 identified and mapped prospects and leads, and an un-risked resource potential in excess of 500 million barrels of oil equivalent. Over the weekend, Atlas Petroleum International has resumed work over activities and well interventions on OML...

African Development Bank joins World Trade Organisation (WTO) and other Multilateral Development Banks (MDB)s to support trade finance amid COVID-19 crisis

Since the beginning of the COVID-19 outbreak, multilateral development banks have stepped up their trade finance programs to support essential imports and key exports The African Development Bank Group (www.AfDB.org) has joined the World Trade Organisation and other multilateral development...

Boeing announces next wave of job cuts

The layoffs are part of a previously announced plan to to reduce the workforce by 10 percent Boeing has reportedly announced that the company is undergoing another round of layoffs. The company notified approximately 1,030 employees companywide that they will lose their jobs by...

George Floyd: Twitter drops ‘master’, ‘slave’ and ‘blacklist’

Social media platform Twitter is dropping the terms "master", "slave" and "blacklist" in favour of more inclusive language. The terms are frequently used in programming codes which originated decades ago. US bank JPMorgan has also announced a similar move as more...

European Travel Bans are counter-productive and hurting the Oil & Gas Sector’s ability to support Africa’s Economic Recovery

Restrictions of visa issuance are de facto preventing a lot of projects to move forward and to successfully contribute to the recovery of the continent The continuation of travel restrictions and suspension of visas and travel between Africa and Europe...

African Development Bank to launch African Economic Outlook 2020 Supplement

The supplement revises the growth projections and outlook for Africa for 2020 and 2021 and highlights the impact of COVID–19 on Africa’s socio-economic landscape The African Development Bank (www.AfDB.org) will launch its African Economic Outlook 2020 Supplement in a live...

Yinson Production provides Biological Safety Cabinet for COVID-19 testing

The management of Yinson Production West Africa Limited (YPWAL) has donated a Biological Safety Cabinet worth USD4,600 to the National Public Health Reference Laboratory at Korle-Bu to help in the fight against the deadly COVID-19 that continue to wreak...

Ecobank Group spearheads new private sector initiative to end malaria

Ecobank Group confirms its commitment to support ending malaria, launching the first-of-its-kind Zero Malaria Business Leadership Initiative in partnership with Dakar-based not-for-profit strategic communications and advocacy organization, Speak Up Africa, and the UN-hosted RBM Partnership to End Malaria. The new...

US farmers scramble for help as COVID-19 scuttles immigrant workforce

Any delays in the harvest could send prices higher The novel coronavirus delayed the arrival of seasonal immigrants who normally help harvest U.S. wheat, leaving farmers to depend on high school students, school bus drivers, laid-off oilfield workers and others to run machines...
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Next NPP gov’t to establish Hall of Fame in all regions, Tourism Minister reveals.

If given another mandate at this year’s general election, the next New Patriotic Party (NPP) government will establish Creative...
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