Chrissy Teigen announced her third pregnancy by showing off her baby bump in John Legend‘s new music video on Thursday. Hours later, she gave fans another look at her burgeoning belly. Teigen, 34, took to Twitter and her Instagram Story on Thursday evening to comment on her baby news. Posing on profile, the model Read more…
BBC Click’s Paul Carter looks at some of the best technology news stories of the week. Source: BBC
The Campaign Manager of John Mahama 2020 has urged individuals, groups and institutions to speak up against wrongs in society, regardless of which party is in power. Prof. Joshua Alabi said wrongs thrive when right-thinking people remain silent on issues that question and undermine the collective good of the people. Read more…
Fortnite-maker Epic Games is taking legal action against Google after being banned from the Google Play app store, hours after doing the same with Apple. Apple and Google both removed the hit game from their app stores after Epic Games bypassed their payment systems, to avoid giving them a cut Read more…
Imani Centre for Policy and Education Ghana, a governance think thank in the country has partnered with Joynews to organize a political debate for 6 six independent presidential candidates at the University of Professional Studies in Accra. The independent presidential aspirants who are seeking the mandate of Ghanaians to govern Read more…
President Alassane Ouattara will run for a third term in the October elections in Cote d’Ivoire, and some fifty-odd Ivorians are indignant as they took to the streets of Abidjan — the capital city, where they blocked roads in protest of the recent decision. Around four people have already lost Read more…
Six presidential aspirants took part in the maiden edition of the Minority Political Parties and Independent Candidates Election Debate at the University of Professional Studies, Accra. Hosted by JoyNews’ Head of Political Desk, Evans Mensah and anchor Emefa Apawu, the aspirants in a debate on August 13, answered questions and Read more…
Ghana continues to make significant progress in its fight against the Covid-19 pandemic as the country’s active cases on Thursday, dropped to 1,906 from a previous 2,007 on Wednesday. This follows the clinical recovery and discharge of a total of 39,718 persons, the Ghana Health Service announced via a Read more…
Boss Jitse Groen says he would rather have staff who get benefits and more workplace protection. Source: BBC
Amazon has launched an online pharmacy in Bangalore, the capital of India’s southern Karnataka state, as the e-commerce group looks to spread its tentacles in more categories in one of its key overseas markets. The company said on Friday its new service, called Amazon Pharmacy, has started accepting orders for Read more…
Apple and Google removed the hit game from their app stores after it bypassed their payment systems. Source: BBC
The use of third party cookies for ad tracking and targeting by data broker giants Oracle and Salesforce is the focus of class action style litigation announced today in the UK and the Netherlands. The suits will argue that mass surveillance of Internet users to carry out real-time bidding ad Read more…
The internet retail giant’s move comes as US tech firms are investing billions of dollars in India. Source: BBC
The US government seizes millions from the Islamic State group, al-Qaeda and the armed wing of Hamas. Source: BBC
President Donald Trump says he has heard Democratic running mate Kamala Harris “doesn’t qualify” to serve as US vice-president, amplifying a fringe legal theory critics decry as racist. Ms Harris was born to a Jamaican father and Indian mother in Oakland, California, on 20 October 1964. But a constitutional law Read more…
The Mastercard Foundation on Thursday, August 13, released an important new report, Secondary Education in Africa: Preparing Youth for the Future of Work. Report findings indicate that changes in the nature of work are placing a premium on skills that help young people be adaptable, resilient, and creative problem solvers. Secondary education Read more…
After Epic Games picked a fight with Apple over the sizable chunk of fees the company takes on transactions in its mobile ecosystem, it looks like the Fortnite developer will be waging a war on two fronts. Epic added a direct payment option to its mobile game early Thursday, prompting Read more…
The Alliance for Social Equity and Public Accountability (ASEPA) says there has been a travesty of justice after the President dismissed their petition to impeach Madam Jean Mensa as the Chairperson of the Electoral Commission (EC). Speaking on Newsnight on Joy FM, the Executive Director, Mensa Thompson, said due process was Read more…
An Independent Presidential Candidate, Samuel Ofori Ampofo has attributed the stunted growth of the energy sector to the profuse level of corruption within the country’s structural system. Speaking at the IMANI Independent Presidential Debate on Thursday, Mr Ampofo said until corrupt state officials are dealt with in accordance with the Read more…
Firms are building robots that can survey the seabed and underwater structures without human help. Source: BBC