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TikTok Restores Service In US After Trump Pledge
20 Jan

TikTok Restores Service In US After Trump Pledge

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TikTok is resuming services to its 170 million users in US after President-elect Donald Trump said he would issue an executive order to give the app a reprieve when he takes office on Monday. On Saturday evening, the Chinese-owned app stopped working for American users, after a law banning it on national security grounds came into effect. Trump, who had previously backed a ban of the platform, promised on Sunday to delay implementation of the law and allow more time for a deal to be made. TikTok then said that it was in the process of "restoring service". Soon after,…
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US Returns $53 Million In Alleged Stolen Funds To Nigeria
13 Jan

US Returns $53 Million In Alleged Stolen Funds To Nigeria

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Close to $53m (£43m) in alleged illicit funds recovered from Nigeria's former oil minister Diezani Alison-Madueke among others will be used to fund public services, the country's justice ministry says. The money is being sent back to Nigeria from the US, whose authorities allege that Alison-Madueke enriched herself, and others, while leading Nigeria's state oil firm by awarding contracts in exchange for bribes. The US alleged that the money was then used to buy a 65-metre superyacht called the Galactica Star plus multiple luxury properties in California and New York. Alison-Madueke, 64, has always denied all allegations of wrongdoing. Her…
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US Pins Africa Nuclear Win On Technology As Ghana Weighs Options
11 Oct

US Pins Africa Nuclear Win On Technology As Ghana Weighs Options

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The US beat out Russia last month to build Ghana’s first small modular nuclear reactor, in a deal Washington sees as prizing its technology over cheaper financing even as the West African nation keeps future options open. An agreement between Nuclear Power Ghana and Regnum Technology Group that uses NuScale Power LLC technology defeated rivals including Russia’s state-owned nuclear company Rosatom Corp. The US is “cognizant of the financing challenge that Western technology faces in comparison to the Rosatom value proposition,” Joshua Volz, a Department of Energy official said in a Sept. 7 interview in Cape Town. “Our Ghanaian partners…
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“Assist ECOWAS With Resources In Terror Fight, Like You Do For Ukraine” – Pres Akufo-Addo To UK, US, & EU
12 Oct

“Assist ECOWAS With Resources In Terror Fight, Like You Do For Ukraine” – Pres Akufo-Addo To UK, US, & EU

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The President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has called on leaders of the global community to put into full effect the provisions of Chapters Seven and Eight of the UN Charter and provide proportionate support to Africa’s fight against terrorism and violent extremism. According to President Akufo-Addo, despite the considerable economic difficulties confronting ECOWAS Member States, eleven (11) Member States of the fifteen (15) Member States of ECOWAS, the four (4) military-led States having been suspended, have made clear their willingness to take the fight to the terrorists, if they were sufficiently empowered. “Comparisons, they say, are odious,…
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US Child Dies From Fentanyl Kept Under Nursery Nap Mat
20 Sep

US Child Dies From Fentanyl Kept Under Nursery Nap Mat

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The fentanyl that killed a one-year-old child at a nursery in New York City was hidden in the nap room under a mat as he slept, police say. Nicholas Dominici, who had been at the nursery for just a week, died of a suspected drug overdose on Friday. Three other children were admitted to hospital after being exposed to the powerful narcotic at the daycare centre in the Bronx. Drug conspiracy and murder charges have been filed against two people. Police believe the children, ranging in age from eight months to two years old, inhaled fentanyl at the nursery. Three…
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Ghana, US Strengthen Ties To Promote Tourism Growth
25 Jul

Ghana, US Strengthen Ties To Promote Tourism Growth

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Ghana and the United States of America (USA) have committed to working together to promote and grow the tourism potentials that exist locally, as they continue to explore areas of investment in the sector for mutual benefit. The Minister for Tourism, Arts and Culture, Ibrahim Mohammed Awal, at a meeting with a 30-member delegation from the USA led by the Mayor of Houston (USA) Mr. Sylvester Turner, who has committed to lead the face of tourism for Ghana in the USA. To this end, he said, his outfit is seeking to create some 1.5 million jobs as part of the…
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Reports Of Mona 4Reall’s Conviction In US False – Management
05 Mar

Reports Of Mona 4Reall’s Conviction In US False – Management

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The management of Mona Faiz Montrage (Hajia4reall) also known in the music circles as Mona 4Reall, have dispelled rumours that the Ghanaian socialite and artiste has been convicted in the United States of America and jailed for 10 years. In a press statement, the management indicated that the “publications making rounds on social media and news portals of the conviction and 10-year jail sentence of Mona Faiz Montrage and the current detention of her daughter; a minor, by the US authorities” are mere fabrications. “We would like to state categorically that the said reports are false,” they wrote. Stating the…
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02 Aug

Ayman al-Zawahiri: Al-Qaeda Leader Killed In US Drone Strike

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The US has killed the leader of al-Qaeda, Ayman al-Zawahiri, in a drone strike in Afghanistan, President Joe Biden has confirmed. He was killed in a counter-terrorism operation carried out by the CIA in the Afghan capital of Kabul on Sunday. He and Osama Bin Laden plotted the 9/11 attacks together, and he was one of America's "most wanted terrorists". Mr Biden said Zawahiri had "carved a trail of murder and violence against American citizens". "Since the United States delivered justice to bin Laden 11 years ago, Zawahiri has been a leader of al-Qaeda," Mr Biden said. "From hiding, he…
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