London – YouTube has lifted restrictions from videos showing Swaziland’s reed dance, which feature bare-breasted women. A spokesperson for the video-sharing platform told the BBC that YouTube allows nudity when “culturally relevant or properly contextualised”. The move was in response to a campaign led by Lazi Dlamini, the head of TV Yabantu, an online video production company, featuring Africa’s “finest ...
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Tigo and Airtel complete Ghana transaction
Millicom International Cellular S.A. (“Millicom”), the parent company of mobile operator Tigo Ghana Limited, announced today it has completed the transaction announced on March 3, 2017, with Bharti Airtel Limited (“Airtel”), the parent company of Airtel Ghana, to combine their operations in Ghana. The successful closing will see both companies hold equal ownership and governance rights in the combined entity. ...
Read More »Graphic to operate TV station next year
The Graphic Communications Group Limited (GCGL) will by the second quarter of next year begin operating a television station. A transactional advisor will be appointed by the end of this month after the company, in November last year, signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Mega-Choice Digital Network, the mother company of Crystal TV, to jointly produce news programmes for ...
Read More »Broadband Chamber calls for regulatory uniformity, fairness
The Broadband Communications Chamber (BBCC), an advocacy group for the development and expansion of the broadband industry has called on the National Communications Authority (NCA) to ensure for regulatory uniformity and fairness in the broadband space. “Currently, there remains a great deal of uncertainty in the Ghanaian broadband industry…If this uncertainty persists, the Ghanaian broadband industry shall not be seen ...
Read More »Fake News Isn’t Just for U.S. as China Gets Billions of Claims
It turns out the Chinese have a problem with fake news too. From Facebook’s Alex Stamos to Steve Ballmer, American tech executives have sought in recent days to dispel the notion there’s a swift solution to the proliferation of spurious or insidious information on the internet, a phenomenon critics say wields an outsized and unhealthy influence on public discourse and ...
Read More »Manchester United’s Summer Transfer Plans in Jeopardy Again as Barcelona Pounce
Barcelona will consider entering the race to sign Atletico Madrid’s Antoine Griezmann next summer, potentially scuppering Jose Mourinho’s transfer plans once again, according to reports. Griezmann agreed a new deal at Atletico this summer, following intense speculation that he would leave for Old Trafford. The Frenchman said it would have been a “dirty move” for him to leave given the ...
Read More »Mark Zuckerberg pens a Yom Kippur message asking Facebook for 2016 election forgiveness
It seems Mark Zuckerberg spent his Yom Kippur reflecting on the impact Facebook has had on the world. As the Jewish Day of Atonement — the year’s concluding High Holy Day, observed one week after the Jewish New Year of Rosh Hashanah — came to an end, Zuckerberg posted a raw and emotional message to Facebook asking the public for ...
Read More »Zuckerberg asks forgiveness, but Facebook needs change
“For the ways my work was used to divide people rather than bring us together, I ask forgiveness and I will work to do better” Mark Zuckerberg posted to Facebook tonight on Yom Kippur, the Jewish day of atonement. Yet first Facebook must redeem itself by recognizing how its dewy-eyed trust in the world can be abused. Zuckerberg has recently ...
Read More »EOCO investigates IT Manager of GPHA for allegedly inflating project cost
The Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO) has begun investigations into the award of procurement and usage of information technology (IT)-related projects of the Ghana Ports and Harbours Authority (GPHA) from 2014 to the early part of 2017. This follows the interdiction of the GPHA’s IT Manager, Mr David Boison, who is said to have been implicated in an investigative ...
Read More »Appreciate role of mobile data service – MTN
Ghana’s only 4G mobile network operator, MTN, has urged individuals, institutions and businesses to appreciate the importance of data service in every activity they undertake. This was revealed at the launch of its annual internet festival, MTN iFest at the Kumasi City Mall in the Ashanti region. The seventh edition of the MTN iFest has been designed to propagate the ...
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