Friday , March 29 2024

Technology

MTN GHANA LAUNCHES APPS CHALLENGE SEASON

Telecommunication giant MTN-Gh has launched it’s annual APPS challenge. The competition which saw 40 developers in its maiden edition in 2013 has seen an exponential growth in the number of participants at the fourth edition, this shows that the MTN Apps challenge season 5.0 will bring hundreds of applicants on …

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Russian trolls used a woman to fool people around the world

In photos, she looks like she is in her early 20s, but she lived for only three years. During this time, Jenna Abrams has achieved more than many other people. She has appeared in almost every major US media, from the New York Times to CNN, to Breitbart’s right portal. …

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Does Spotify destroy the pop scene? A predication made by a text which was published recently by the magazine Pitchfork.  With the headline “Uncovering How Streaming Is Changing the Sound of Pop,” the American author Marc Hogan explains why pop songs sound different in the age of digital streaming, and …

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All clear for new national airline – Akufo-Addo

The Ghanaian President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo revealed the plans of establishing a new national airline to drive the country’s bid to the air transport hub in the West Africa sub-region. “Government has given a policy approval for the establishment of a home-based carrier with private sector participation as part …

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Planting for Food and Jobs must prioritise Agric modernization

Government’s Planting for Food and Jobs (PFJ) Policy must prioritise agricultural modernization as the sure way to help improve the livelihoods of farmers, a lecturer at the Biotechnology Center of the University of Ghana said during a discussion led by the director of the Alliance for Science Sarah Davidson Evanega. …

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KNUST BUILDS UP SOLAR-POWERED 4X4 VEHICLE

Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), in collaboration with the Technical University of Munich (TUM), Germany, has developed a solar-powered electric 4×4 pick-up vehicle known as “aCar”. The environmentally-friendly vehicle, meant to carry passengers and goods, was inaugurated by the Chancellor, Asantehene Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, at the …

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Abolishment of spare parts duty comes into effect this week

Buyers of automobile parts will enjoy relief on vehicle spare parts following the abolishment of the import duties on spare parts. The tax policy goes into effect this week after Parliament finally removed import duties on automobile spare parts to help reduce prices of vehicle spare parts in the country. …

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Building collapses in Kenyan capital, 15 missing

  About 15 people were missing after a seven-storey building collapsed in a residential area of Nairobi, rescue services said on Tuesday, and the city’s governor appealed to its owner to come forward and provide architectural plans to help rescuers. Governor Evans Kidero, speaking at the scene of the collapse, …

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The Future of African Energy Supply

Africa’s economic growth is exploding like never before. But due to a demographic change on the continent the power supply system is not capable of expanding at an adequate rate. Today more than 600 million people don’t have any access to power on the African continent. These electricity struggles definitively …

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