The chief executive of Toyota Motor Corp will step down as head of the company his grandfather founded, the Japanese automaker said on Thursday, handing over to the boss of its luxury car unit as it struggles to meet the shift to electric vehicles. Koji Sato, the automaker’s 53-year-old chief …
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The dollar held close to an eight-month low against its peers on Thursday, as a gloomy U.S. corporate earnings season stoked recession fears and as traders stayed on guard ahead of a slew of central bank meetings next week. The US dollar index , which measures the greenback against a …
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Meta Platforms Inc (META.O) said Wednesday it will reinstate former U.S. President Donald Trump’s Facebook and Instagram accounts in the coming weeks, following a two-year suspension after the deadly Capitol Hill riot on January 6, 2021.The restoration of his accounts could provide a boost to Trump, who announced in November …
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So far, 4 people including a pastor of the Christ Apostolic Church International have sustained various degrees of injuries in a morning accident on the Accra – Kumasi Highway. The accident which occurred on the early hours of Thursday, 26th January 2023 around 7:00am involved Three Toyota vehicles and one …
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PSG forward Lionel Messi is considering his future in France and has concerns over signing a new deal with the Ligue 1 champions, according to reports.The Argentina star’s current deal at the Parc des Princes expires in the summer – after agreeing a two-year contract in 2021 – and there is yet to be progress …
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Presnel Kimpembe has claimed he was “not made aware” about Kylian Mbappe replacing him as the vice-captain of Paris Saint-Germain.Mbappe was awarded the armband against sixth-tier outfit sixth-tier Pays de Cassel in the absence of regular captain Marquinhos, along with Presnel Kimpembe and Marco Verratti – who have previously been second and …
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The Ministry of Health has given an assurance that efforts are being made to renegotiate the vaccine acquisition contract with the African Vaccine Acquisition Trust (AVAT) as recommended by the Auditor General’s Special Report on government’s COVID-19 expenditure.However, it did not state emphatically if the renegotiation would facilitate the recovery …
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The Ghana National Education Coalition Campaign (GNECC) has called on the government to, as a matter of urgency, address the current challenges facing the education system. In addition, it called on the president to honour his commitment during the Transforming Education Summit in the UN that 23 per cent of …
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Some key agriculture civil society organisations (CSOs) have condemned delays in granting tax exemptions on imported agrochemicals and inputs. The CSOs – Peasant Farmers Association of Ghana (PFAG), Chamber of Agribusiness Ghana (CAG), CropLife Ghana and the National Seed Trade Association of Ghana (NASTAG) – said the hold-up could deny …
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Ghana has become the second country in Africa after Mozambique to receive payments from a World Bank trust fund for reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation, commonly known as REDD+. The World Bank’s Forest Carbon Partnership Facility (FCPF) paid Ghana $4,862,280 for reducing 972,456 tons of carbon emissions for …
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