Angola, Africa’s second largest oil producer, is home to the most overvalued currency on the continent. Angola’s kwanza is 72% overvalued against the dollar, according to a comparison of the cost of a bucket of fried chicken from the fast food retailer KFC in 16 African countries in February. It is another sign of how…
WhatsApp made waves recently with its decision to switch on end-to-end encryption for all its billion-plus users. “End-to-end” means the communication is encrypted before it leaves your phone and decrypted only after it reaches the other person’s phone, so nobody else, not even WhatsApp itself, can read or listen to it. Predictably, privacy activists are…
… With all the so called SWAG, pride and ego of man and his over accumulated fortune, here it ends: an ordinary food for maggots. If man can take a quite time to reflect on his unavoidable END, he will live the rest of his life in total love for one another. All the chieftaincy…
Last week, a story claiming the Eritrean government had issued a ruling forcing men in the country to marry at least two wives was all abuzz on social media. On Facebook and Twitter memes abounded of men around the world apparently wanting to move to the country to take advantage of this new law. There…
At 11pm UK time (6pm ET) today, the window for transferring players into and out of the English Premier League will close. After all the paperwork has been filed, and every player has stood smiling while holding up their new team’s jersey, a new record will have been hit: Between the winter and summer transfer…
Before Sheikh Mansour’s Abu Dhabi United Group took over Manchester City for £210 million in the summer of 2008, the club’s highest transfer fee paid was £13 million for Nicolas Anelka in 2002. A newly promoted club at the time, City were hoping to cement their place in English football’s top tier. These days though, the club have loftier ambitions.…
In South Korea last year, a single person spread the virus causing Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) to 186 others, 36 of whom died as a result. Now Thailand, having identified the virus in a visitor from Oman on Jan. 22, has placed dozens of people in quarantine. It’s the second MERS case that Thailand has reported…
I have lots of electronics and home appliances that just arrived from UK yesterday. 1. Latest 2015 Model SMART TV Sets, Ultra HD, IPS 4K with inbuilt Internet, with 50 Freeview HD Channels which includes CNN, BBC, ITV etc. I have these specs in Samsung, LG, Sony and Toshiba. The size is from 40 inches…
Philippine officials at Ninoy Aquino International Airport in Manila have been accused of planting bullets in passengers’ bags as they go through security, in a plot to extract hefty fines from tourists and other travelers. A Japanese tourist and an overseas Filipino worker were the latest to complain last week, according to the BBC, and Philippine news site Rappler has kept…
As Africa’s growth continues to attract investors, both foreign and domestic, a key challenge has emerged—a lack of top executive talent to take over the jobs that these investments create, according to a recent survey from Russell Reynolds Associates, a global headhunting outfit. “Scarcity of talent is very much on the mind of all corporations,” a…
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