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Pinpointing a leaky pipe is difficult, so water firms are deploying thousands of sophisticated sensors. Source: BBC

A total of ¢165,903 was disbursed to 104 People with Disability (PWD) under the Disability Fund (DF) in the Adaklu District in 2019.      The beneficiaries were made up of 47 males and 57 females. Susan Termley Akortia, Adaklu District Director of the Department of Social Welfare, disclosed this Read more…

Information Minister of Information Kojo Oppong Nkrumah will on Thursday open a one day photo exhibition on coronvirus pandemic at the forecourt of the ministry in Accra. The exhibition which is organised by the Ghana Photojournalists Network to commemorate this year’s world Photography Day is under the theme ‘Ghana’s Fight Read more…

Frank Freebody Mensah, manager of popular musician Patapaa, says his artistes has fully recovered from an acute ailment. News about the ‘One Corner’ hitmaker earlier in the week suggested that he had been poisoned and at the verge of death. But his manager has clarified what transpired earlier this week stating Read more…

What early-stage startup founder wouldn’t love to have a crystal ball? Especially now with a pandemic wreaking economic uncertainty across industries in every corner of the world. We don’t have mystical powers, but we do have the next best thing, and it’s available exclusively to early-stage founders exhibiting in Digital Read more…

Ghana’s Covid-19 death toll on Monday, surged to 239 from a previous 231, following the confirmation of eight new deaths. According to the Ghana Health Service, the deaths were recorded in five regions across the country. The deceased, all but three had underlying health conditions including hypertension, Retroviral Infection, chronic Read more…

The United States has condemned the death sentence passed on Kano singer, Yahaya Sharif-Aminu for allegedly insulting the Prophet Muhammad in a song he circulated social media. The US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) in a statement on August 11, said on the Nigerians government must overturn the death Read more…

The battle between Epic Games and Apple continues, Facebook faces criticism in India and Pinterest appoints its first Black board member. This is your Daily Crunch for August 17, 2020. The big story: Epic Games files injunction against Apple Epic’s legal and PR fight with Apple and its App Store Read more…

The flagbearer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), John Mahama, says creating jobs for the youth will be a major plank of the new NDC government in 2021. Speaking in Battor in the North Tongu constituency on the first day of his four-day visit to the Volta Region, he told Read more…

Former President John Dramani Mahama has rated his government better than the Akufo-Addo-led administration. According to him, the NDC’s four-year reign under his leadership witnessed several developmental projects across the nation. Mr Mahama believes most campaign promises made by the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the lead up to the Read more…

The African Continental Free Trade Africa (AfCFTA) signals that Africa is open for business and mutually beneficial investment thereby creating decent jobs and improving livelihoods, Secretary-General of AfCFTA, has reiterated. Wamkele Mene noted that the African continental had a market of 1.2 billion people; stating that “we have a combined Read more…

Editor’s note: Ryan Lawler is a writer and editor based in Philadelphia. After working as a journalist for publications like TechCrunch and Gigaom, he currently leads content strategy for Samsung Next. I don’t remember the first time I went to The Creamery, probably sometime in early 2012. I don’t remember Read more…

Global Media Alliance (GMA) is set to organise the third edition of the GMA Webinar Series to discuss the digital transformation practices in the retail industry in the wake of Covid-19. The Series by the market leader in Integrated Marketing Communications follows two successful editions. The webinar will be held on August 25, at 10 am GMT via Zoom Read more…

Tesla shares surpassed $1,800 for the first time today, the latest in an eye-popping run up of the stock that has propelled the company’s valuation to more than $341 billion. Let’s put these numbers in perspective. Tesla, an automaker that delivered 367,500 vehicles in 2019 and is aiming to exceed Read more…

Washington-based Datasembly aims to take the guesswork out of the pricing for consumer goods. The company founded by Ben Reich and Dan Gallagher initially started as a project the two men developed after working at a retail analytics firm in the DC area. What they observed while trying to collect information Read more…

Pinterest has appointed Andrea Wishom, president of real estate company Skywalker Holdings* and former Harpo Studios executive, to its board of directors. The appointment makes her Pinterest’s first Black board member and third female board member. Pinterest added its first female board member in 2016, when it appointed Michelle Wilson, Read more…

After taking a stand against Apple’s hefty cut of the money developers make through the App Store, Fortnite maker Epic Games shows no signs of backing down. The company filed a motion for an injunction against Apple in the U.S. District Court for California’s Northern District on Monday after it Read more…