Ghana’s AkooBooks Is Relaunching With Beat

Exclusive: The new AkooBooks/Beat platform will reach 19 African nations with audiobooks and podcasts, with no data charges for users. An image from the current AkooBooks app site at app.akoobooks.net. The forthcoming AkooBooks platform–expected later this year–will offer a new ‘multi-tiered, credit-based’ streaming platform featuring audiobooks, podcasts, and ebooks By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson

Fear grips undocumented foreign workers in South Africa | The Guardian Nigeria News

Zimbabwean domestic migrant worker Precious clocked in late for work, launched into her duties for a white South African family as if nothing happened, yet hours earlier she had been arrested for being in the country without papers. South Africa — the continent’s most industrialised country — is buckling under a wave of illegal migration

Farming business supplies KFC and exports to Europe

Felix Kamassah, founder of Maphlix Ghana-based agribusiness company Maphlix Trust exports vegetables to markets such as the UK and Dubai, and also supplies local companies like KFC and Shoprite. Jeanette Clark talks to founder and managing director, Felix Kamassah, about how he secured international clients, local import substitution opportunities, and why he sees potential in

ExxonMobil Graduate Internship Program 2022/2023 for young Nigerian graduates

Application Deadline: Unspecified The ExxonMobil Graduate Internship Program offers recent Nigerian graduates the opportunity to gain invaluable industry experience in a world-leading engineering company. From day one of your internship, you can expect to apply your knowledge and experience in a real business setting. You will be given opportunities to prove yourself and gain valuable work

AMAA 2022: ‘Man of God’, ‘Jolly Roger’ shine + full list of nominees

Efere Ozako AMAA 2022 Award for Best Short film Al-Sit -Sudan Astel -Senegal Mamadou – Equatorial Guinea Tender Threads – Morocco Jubril Malafia AMAA 2022 Award for Best Animation On the Surface – Iceland Kenda – Cote D’Ivoire No Simple Way Home -Sudan The Last Shelter – Mali Lobola, a Bride’s True Price?- South Africa

Foreign direct investment and economic development in Sub-Saharan Africa — Opinion — The Guardian Nigeria News – Nigeria and World News

“The largest 100 corporations hold 25 per cent of the worldwide productive assets, which in turn control 75 per cent of international trade and 98 per cent of all foreign direct investment. The multinational corporation … puts the economic decision beyond the effective reach of the political process and its decision-makers, national governments.” — Peter Drucker This

How WorldRemit is promoting financial inclusivity in Ghana

By Gbenga Okejimi, Country Manager, Ghana and Nigeria ACCRA, GHANA 21 September 2022,-/African Media Agency (AMA)/-In emerging markets all across the globe, marginalized groups face limited access to both financial services and financial literacy.1 As a result of the financial exclusion, many developing countries face extreme poverty rates which leads to instability and hinders sustainable economic growth.2