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The service heads to the digital graveyard as the company switches focus to YouTube Music. Source: BBC

We’ve had huge debates about the future of work — are we going to be working from home, working from the office, or perhaps, working from anywhere? Work From Home is dead, long live Work From Anywhere Well, Facebook has put its wager down, and it’s work from office. In Read more

The opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) is holding its weekly briefing to address alleged ethnic discrimination and tribal bigotry in the ongoing voters’ registration exercise. Supported by some party bigwigs, the National Communications Officer of the party, Sammy Gyamfi addresses the media to highlight some of the issues. Today’s press Read more

Facebook is making it easier for businesses to leverage its Messenger service on their own websites. The company in November 2017 first launched a new customer chat plugin which allowed customers to talk directly with a business on the business’s own website using the Messenger service. However, that plugin had Read more

Radish is announcing that it has raised $63.2 million in new funding. Breaking up book-length stories into smaller chapters that are released over days or weeks is an idea that was popularized in the 19th century, and startups have been trying to revive it for at least the past decade. Read more

South Sudan’s health ministry says about 78 frontline healthcare workers have tested positive for Covid-19. One male healthcare worker has died, according to a health official. “It is very unfortunate to mention that we have lost one of the healthcare workers. He used to work at Juba Teaching Hospital, he Read more

Secondary schools in Nigeria reopened on Tuesday for classes almost four months after they closed to halt the spread of coronavirus. Final-year students now have just two weeks to prepare for their exams. Face masks, social distancing and hand-washing facilities are mandatory within all schools, the education ministry says. There Read more

The European Commission’s move has the potential to derail the $2.1bn takeover. Source: BBC

“I will support the Vice President, Prof. Mills, if he decides to contest the 2000 presidential election”, Prof. Ahwoi quotes NDC founder Jerry John Rawlings as stating at the famous “Swedru Declaration.” This declaration, over the years, has also been blamed by analysts as what accounted for the divisions in Read more

Eleven people, including United Nations employees, sustained injuries after a UN aircraft made a hard landing at an airport in Mali’s eastern city of Gao, the UN Mission in Mali (Minusma) said. The plane left the capital, Bamako, Monday morning and had four UN personnel and seven crew members. It Read more

After a legal challenge to the automatic algorithm, the UK will “redesign” its visa process. Source: BBC