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Volkswagen opens vehicle assembly facility in Ghana
Volkswagen is strengthening the regions and focusing on new up-and-coming markets as part of its TRANSFORM 2025+ brand strategy.
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Redesigned Nissan logo signals a fresh horizon
Nissan’s new logo comes alive as it pivots to the future while staying proudly connected to its rich heritage, and tradition of innovation.
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Electronic banking fraud in Nigeria: How it’s done, and what can be done to stop it
While fraudsters continue to design new ways of working on customers’ vulnerabilities, Nigerian banks need to use the Cybercrime Act to prosecute offenders as a way to boost confidence in the banking sector and deter fraud in the future.
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African countries need to seize opportunities created by US-China tensions
There are three arenas of challenges and opportunities for the African continent in the current geopolitical climate. The first involves technological frontiers, the second is global supply chains, and the third is trade integration and economic cooperation.
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Aerosols are a bigger coronavirus threat than WHO guidelines suggest—here’s what you need to know
The WHO guidelines suggested that the virus RNA found in small droplets wasn’t viable in most circumstances. However, early research on the SARS-CoV-2 virus has shown that it is viable as an aerosol for up to 3 hours.
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Young Nigerians, relationships and risky sexual behaviour: survey findings
Historically, parents and family members would initiate and monitor romantic relationships between two young people intending to become a couple. But in more recent times, individuals have been freer to make their own choices.
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Social isolation: The Covid-19 pandemic’s hidden health risk for older adults, and how to manage it
Inadvertently, the Covid-19 safety guidelines to self-isolate have created new health risks by leaving many older adults even more socially isolated and inactive than before.
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How to help someone you live with who has depression
Rates of depression in adults and young people are already concerning, and are predicted by the World Health Organization to rise. By 2030, depression will be the highest burden of disease globally, which refers to the overall impact of a health problem, including the financial cost.
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Mandela was a flawed icon. But without him South Africa would be a sadder place
Nelson Mandela’s talent for reading the political runes was not always matched by his ability to read people. Internal political leaders who’d publicly criticised Winnie were side-lined but his patrician’s hope that he could have a benign influence on her evaporated.
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Who counts as black?
This debate over “who counts” has created somewhat of an identity crisis in the black community, exposing a divide between those who think being black should be based on physical looks, and those who think being black is more than looks.