Finance firms should not be forced by regulators to change location after Britain leaves the European Union in 2019, Andrew Bailey, chief executive of the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority told a Reuters Newsmaker event on Thursday. Banks, insurers and asset…
Jacqueline Kennedy’s watch becomes the most expensive Cartier Tank ever sold
ACartier wristwatch that belonged to Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis broke a new world record for a Cartier Tank when it sold for $379,500 (approximately £300,00) at the Christie’s Rare Watches and American Icons auction in New York. The 18-carat gold Cartier Tank was made in…
50 Cent Disses Jay-Z’s Album ‘4:44’: ‘S— Was Like Golf Course Music’
50 Cent wasn’t shy about telling the world how he felt about Jay-Z’s new album “4:44.” The “In Da Club” rapper posted an Instagram video on Wednesday criticizing his latest release. “I thought the s— was aight, you know what I’m sayin’?…
The Refugee Ban Is Back, But Church Connections Might Trump It
It’s been a tumultuous year for refugee resettlement, and the latest ruling on President Donald Trump’s highly contested travel ban introduces more questions about the prospects for foreigners seeking asylum in the United States. After months of holdups in lower courts and…
LORE OF YORE
I Love, love, the doves above. Loss, loss, the tears dissolve. Lore, lore, the laws resolve. II The lore of yore I pore… By: Anthony Oluwatamilore Daniel
Media Statement: The Recapitalisation of the South Africa Airways
Government has decided to transfer funds from the National Revenue Fund to South African Airways to allow the airline to pay back its debt to Standard Chartered Bank thereby avoiding a default. This payment was done in terms of section…
Zika: costs of prevention and control
An interview with Amesh Adalja, MD FIDSA, Johns Hopkins University Center for Health Security, conducted by April Cashin-Garbutt, MA (Cantab) Can you please outline the main findings of the recent study published in PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases on the costs…
Mikel Obi Deletes Russian Girlfriend on Instagram
Super Eagles captain John Mikel Obi has gotten the rumor mill going at full throttle after deleting all pictures where his Russian girlfriend Olga Diyachenko appeared from his Instagram account. The couple welcomed their twins in 2015 after reportedly…
MSF: HIV response in West and Central Africa will not succeed if key barriers remain unaddressed
As African heads of state meet today in Addis Ababa to endorse the Emergency catch-up plan led by UNAIDS to accelerate HIV treatment in West and Central Africa, the international humanitarian medical organisation Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) reiterates…
Agriculture ministers urged to address African rural youth unemployment
Youth employment should be at the centre of any strategy to face economic and demographic challenges in Africa, the Director-General of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization José Graziano da Silva told a joint African Union-European Union meeting, hosted at…