Asia, Africa boost Facebook’s 2 billion users base
Facebook now has 2 billion users, hitting the number less than five years after reaching the 1 billion mark. But the high point of this phenomenal growth is that Asian…
EU fines Google $2.7 billion in biggest anti-trust case
EU antitrust regulators hit Alphabet (GOOGL.O) unit Google with a record 2.42-billion-euro ($2.7 billion) fine on Tuesday, taking a tough line in the first of three investigations into the company’s…
China to invest $7 billion in Africa floating LNG
China plans to pour almost $7 billion into floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) projects in Africa, betting on a largely untested technology in the hope that energy markets will recover…
How UK can block money laundering deals from Nigeria, other nations – New Report
According to a new study almost eight in 10 of financial crime professionals in UK financial services believe that the 4th EU Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Directive will make it easier…
Apartheid still lives in South Africa as white church bars blacks during Sunday service
A South Africa’s Church has barred blacks from attending service as the church on Sunday disallowed two black journalists from entering. The Afrikaanse Protestante Kerk church in Orania, told the…
Boko Haram guns down 8 soldiers, injures 18 in bloody battle
Eight Chadian soldiers were killed in fierce fighting with Boko Haram insurgents at the weekend on islands on Lake Chad, which borders four countries on the edge of the Sahara,…
Please, don’t go, South Africa community tells Nigerians
“They have told us not to worry about the quit notice but we are worried that it was given in the first place”, Oby Okezie, a Nigerian woman resident in…
Facebook launches campaign to fight online extremism
US social media giant Facebook launched a campaign in Britain on Friday to counter the spread of online extremism following warnings from Prime Minister Theresa May after four terror attacks…
140 perish in tanker inferno, fire sparked by a passer-by lighting a cigarette
A lorry carrying fuel has burst into flames near the Pakistani city of Ahmedpur East, killing at least 140 people, local officials say. Villagers had gathered, reportedly to collect fuel…
Court okays secret ballot no-confidence vote against Zuma, but…
South Africa’s top court ruled on Thursday that secret ballots may be held for motions of no confidence in parliament, a potential blow to the tenure of beleaguered President Jacob…