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Germany’s Economy Expands Less Than Expected In Q2

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Germany’s Economy Expands Less Than Expected In Q2

German economy returned to growth in the second quarter but bounced back less strongly than expected amid supply chain bottlenecks that are hitting industry, data showed on Friday.

Europe’s largest economy grew by 1.5% quarter on quarter, compared with a revised contraction of 2.1% in the first quarter, and by 9.2% on the year, the Federal Statistics Office said.

A poll had forecast increases of 2.0% and 9.6% respectively. Compared with the fourth quarter of 2019, the last pre-pandemic period, gross domestic product (GDP) was still down 3.4%, the Statistics Office said.

“Growth is decent, but it could have been stronger if it wasn’t for shortages of materials,” VP Bank Group Chief Economist Thomas Gitzel said. Supply chain worries and reports on virus infections have dampened the outlook for the economy. A survey showed on Monday that German business morale fell unexpectedly in July, the first decline since January.

Lake Chad Basin Commission Opens Bids For Evaluation And In-Depth Study

Angel Gimalo
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Lake Chad Basin Commission Opens Bids For Evaluation And In-Depth Study

Member countries of the Lake Chad Basin Commission (LCBC) have opened bids for the evaluation and in-depth study on improving water flow into the lake chad region.

The in-depth study would be carried out on the Chari and Logone Rivers, which flow through the Central Africa Republic.

Nigeria’s Minister of Water Resources, Suleiman Adamu, noted that the Lake Chad basin had suffered from a combination of the impacts of climate change in the last four decades.

The study, he said, was, therefore, pivotal to the revitalisation of the Lake Chad and necessary to sustainably address the effects of climate change, youth unemployment and endemic poverty in the region.

US Secretary Of State Says Nuclear Talks With Iran ‘Cannot Go On Indefinitely’

Elizabeth Williams
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US Secretary Of State Says Nuclear Talks With Iran ‘Cannot Go On Indefinitely’

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Thursday that nuclear talks with Iran “cannot go on indefinitely” but that Washington was “fully prepared” to continue negotiations.

The US is indirectly involved in Iran’s talks with world powers to revive a nuclear deal that gave Iran some relief from international sanctions in exchange for limits on its nuclear programme.

The deal was torpedoed in 2018 by then US President Donald Trump, who unilaterally withdrew from the agreement and imposed punishing sanctions.

“We’re committed to diplomacy, but this process cannot go on indefinitely… we look to see what Iran is ready to do or not ready to do and remain fully prepared to return to Vienna to continue negotiations,” Blinken said during a visit to Kuwait on Thursday

U.S. senior director for Africa at the National Security Council, Dana Banks, told journalists in an online news briefing that the U.S. was ready to do business with the continent.

With the implementation of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), Banks said America wants to participate in Africa’s growth.

Banks said. “And our goal is to substantially increase two-way trade and investment between the United States and Africa by connecting U.S. and African businesses and investors with tangible deal opportunities.

Social Protection Programs for Ghanaians

Angel Gimalo
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Social Protection Programs for Ghanaians

The World Bank is supporting the Government of Ghana in developing and implementing social protection programs that can help the country sustain economic growth, reduce poverty, improve its lower-middle-income status; and ultimately impact the lives and livelihood of many Ghanaians.

These include: productive inclusion, short term employment through labour intensive public works, cash transfers to smoothen consumption, and systems such as the call centre to enhance grievance redress mechanisms for beneficiaries of the safety nets programs as well as grievance on gender-based violence, and other gender-related issues across the country; and the Ghana National Household Registry to improve targeting.

As a result, over a million lives have been improved, even as more continue to be done to ascertain a better and safer future for ghanaians.

Environmental challenges: Nigeria Calls for support

Angel Gimalo
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Environmental challenges: Nigeria Calls for support

The Federal Government of Nigeria has called on developed countries through their high commissions and embassies to support Nigeria in the implementation of its Environmental Protection Programmes.

Minister of Environment, Mohammad Abubakar, made the call at the inauguration of Nigeria’s National Reducing Emission from Deforestation and Forest Degradation, (REDD+) strategy document, in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital.

Abubakar said the government would remain committed to ensuring a healthy and safe environment, adding that the support from other developed countries would enhance its efforts.

He called on the United Kingdom and other governments, through their high commissions and embassies here in Nigeria, “to hear and to amplify our message”.

Today In History – July 30 – Mahlon Loomis Patents Wireless Telegraphy

Angel Gimalo
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Today In History – July 30 – Mahlon Loomis Patents Wireless Telegraphy

101 BC Battle of Vercellae: Roman army under Gaius Marius defeats the Cimbri in Cisalpine Gaul, ending the Celto-Germanic threat on Italy’s border with over 100,000 Cimbri killed

579 Benedict I ends his reign as Catholic Pope

657 St Vitalian begins his reign as Catholic Pope succeeding Eugene I

762 City of Baghdad founded by Abbasid caliph Al-Mansur, just north of ancient Baghdad

1178 Frederick I (Barbarossa), Holy Roman Emperor, crowned King of Burgundy

1419 First defenestration of Prague: anti-Catholic Hussites, followers of executed reformer Jan Hus, storm Prague town hall and throw the judge, mayor and several city council members out the windows. They die in the fall or killed by crowd outside.

1537 Resistant of Bomy: French/Dutch ceasefire

1601 Spanish garrison of Rhine birch surrenders to Earl Mauritius

1618 Prince Maurits’ troops pull into Utrecht

1619 House of Burgesses Virginia forms, 1st elective American governing body

1646 English parliament sets king Charles I Newcastle Propositions

1650 Prince Willem II occupies Amsterdam

1653 Johan de Witt sworn in as pension advisor of Holland

1655 Dutch troops occupy Fort Assahudi Seram

1678 English troops land in Flanders

1715 Spanish gold and silver fleet disappears off St Lucie, Florida

1729 City of Baltimore founded

1739 Caspar Wistar begins glass manufacturing in Allowaystown, New Jersey

1756 Bartolomeo Rastrelli presents the newly-built Catherine Palace to Empress Elizabeth and her courtiers in Russia

1775 Captain James Cook with Resolution returns to England

1792 500 Marseillaisian men sing France’s national anthem for 1st time

1809 British armed force of 39,000 lands in Walcheren

1811 Father Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, leader of the Mexican insurgency, is executed by the Spanish in Chihuahua, Mexico

1822 James Varick becomes 1st bishop of African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church

1824 Gioachino Rossini becomes manager of Theatre Italian, Paris

1825 Malden Island is discovered in the central Pacific by British warship HMS Blonde

1826 Java prince Dipo Negoro surprise attacks Dutch colony, 82 killed

1836 First English language newspaper published in Hawaii

1844 1st US yacht club – NY Yacht Club organized by John Cox Stevens and 8 friends aboard the Gimcrack

1863 President Abraham Lincoln issues “eye-for-eye” order to shoot a rebel prisoner for every black prisoner shot

1863 Indian Wars: Chief Pocatello of the Shoshone tribe signs the Treaty of Box Elder, promising to stop harassing the emigrant trails in southern Idaho and northern Utah

1864 Battle of Chambersburg, Pennsylvania – burned by Union forces under McCausland

1864 Battle of Petersburg: General Burnsides fails in an attack on Petersburg in the Battle of the Crater

1865 Pope Pius IX visits Suriname

1866 New Orleans’s Democratic government orders police to raid an integrated Republican Party meeting, killing 40 people and injuring 150

1869 The Charles, considered the world’s first “oil tanker”, departs from the United States headed for Europe with a bulk capacity of 7,000 barrels of oil

1870 Staten Island ferry “Westfield” burns, killing 100

1870 The Republic of Klipdrift is proclaimed by Transvaal President Andries Pretorius after the discovery of diamonds in South Africa in

1866 resulted in a flood of treasure hunters; ownership of the diamond fields was contested by the Boer republics

1872 Mahlon Loomis patents wireless telegraphy

1874 1st baseball teams to play outside US, Boston-Philadelphia in British Isles

1878 German anti-semitism begins during the Reichstag election

1884 Nonpareil Dempsey [John Edward Kelly] fights George Fulljames, possibly the 1st middleweight fight with boxing gloves

1900 British Parliament passes several progressive social acts: a Mines Act, a Workmen’s Compensation Act and a Railway Act

1902 Anti-Jewish rioters attack funeral procession of Rabbi Joseph (NYC)

1905 Dutch Covenant of Worker’s union, NVV, forms

1905 3rd Tour de France won by Louis Trousselier of France

1907 Russia and Japan sign an agreement guaranteeing freedom of China while recognizing each other’s special interests

1907 The Filipinos elect their first legislature; it will meet on 16 October

1907 Starting today, the French bombard Casablanca and land troops to occupy the Atlantic-coast region of Morocco after attacks on foreigners

1908 Around the World Automobile Race ends in Paris

1909 John Heyder becomes president of baseball’s National League

1909 French chemist Eugène Schueller founds L’Oréal with his new range of hair dyes

1911 9th Tour de France won by Gustave Garrigou of France

1913 Conclusion of 2nd Balkan War

1914 Austrian-Hungary & Russia proclaim general mobilization

1914 French troops withdraw 10 km from German border

1914 John French appointed British supreme commander

JAMB Set To Hold Rescheduled Exam For 18,000 Candidates

Precious Obazee
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JAMB Set To Hold Rescheduled Exam For 18,000 Candidates

Some categories of candidates who registered to take part in the 2021 unified tertiary matriculation examination (UTME) but are yet to sit the examination for various genuine reasons have been rescheduled to sit the examination on August 6.

This is coming two days after the examination body announced the withdrawal of results of 14 candidates and withheld 93 others’ for allegedly being involved in various forms of examination malpractice.

In a statement issued by JAMB and signed by its spokesperson, Fabian Benjamin, a total of 18,000 candidates will participate in the rescheduled examination.

The statement listed the concerned candidates to include those “who could not be initially scheduled for examination owing to their inability to timely procure and supply their mandatory NINs or profile codes,” and “who encountered peculiar biometric verification problems, or who failed biometric verification on the examination date,” among others.

In addition, the candidate can check using their registration number on http://www.jamb.gov.ng/2021mopup.

The rescheduled candidates are to print fresh examination notification slips containing the venue and time of the examination.

The slips are to be printed from the JAMB website using the candidates’ registration number from Sunday, 1st August, 2021.

The board said for the avoidance of doubt, no candidate whose result has been duly released will be rescheduled for another examination contrary to the sponsored fake news being circulated on conventional and social media.

Dublin City Center To Have Outdoor Roof-top Cinema And Restaurant

faith Jegede
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Dublin City Center To Have Outdoor Roof-top Cinema And Restaurant

Dublin is set to get its first rooftop cinema as temporary planning permission has been granted for an open air cinema and restaurant

The proposed location is the top floor of a multi-storey car park on Trinity Street behind popular Dame Street into.

Dublin City Council approved plans to alter the upper levels of the car park in other to also provide for a gallery and exhibition area on the building’s fifth floor. 

Council planners have however indicated that it would not allow a proposed cocktail bar to operate separately.

The project is the brainchild of chef, Niall Davidson, whose company, Table 21 restaurants secured city permission for a change of use of the top floors of the multi-storey car park for a maximum period of three years.

Scarlett Johansson Vs Walt Disney In Black widow Lawsuit.

faith Jegede
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Scarlett Johansson Vs Walt Disney In Black widow Lawsuit.

Star of the Marvel superhero film “Black Widow”, Scarlett Johansson is taking Walt Disney to court over allegations that the company breached her contract when it offered the movie on streaming at the same time it played in theaters.

The actress argued that the dual release strategy of Black Widow had reduced her compensation, which was based partly on box office receipts from what was supposed to be an exclusive run in cinemas.

Johansson’s lawsuit claims Disney wanted to steer audiences toward Disney+, “where it could keep the revenues for itself while simultaneously growing the Disney+ subscriber base, a proven way to boost Disney’s stock price”.

“Disney wanted to substantially devalue Ms Johansson’s agreement and thereby enrich itself,” said the lawsuit, which seeks unspecified damages to be determined at trial.”

According to the lawsuit,having the movie of Disney+ allegedly cost Scarlett over $50 million. Days after the premiere, ticket sales for the movie dropped faster than most of marvels previous movies.

Disney, in its reply, said there was “no merit” to the lawsuit, stating that it had complied with her contract.

It added in a statement that the release of the movie on its streaming platform had “significantly enhanced her [Johansson’s] ability to earn additional compensation on top of the $20m she has received to date”.

The movie reportedly earned $80 million dollars at the US box office and $78 million oversees during its opening weekend. It earned about $60 million in Disney+ streams where subscribers were offered $30 at home purchases.

Rwanda To Introduce Braille And Sign Language In Schools’ Curriculum

Precious Obazee
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Rwanda To Introduce Braille And Sign Language In Schools’ Curriculum

The Rwanda Basic Education Board is set to roll out a Competence Based Curriculum for special needs children – visual impairment and hearing loss.

The curriculum will be part of a unit called special needs and inclusive education and will start with the next academic year.

Director General of REB, Nelson Mbarushimana, said the board is working with different partners in developing the curriculum that will be followed by recruiting, and professional training of teachers at national level who will teach these subjects.

Executive Director of the Rwanda Union of the Blind, Donatella Kanimba, said it was high time REB introduced this curriculum, because education should be accessible to all Rwandan children and no one should be left behind.

On his part, Executive Secretary of National Council of Persons with Disabilities, Emmanuel Ndayisaba, said the new sign language dictionary that will have more than 2000 signs is expected to be ready in September.

Speaking to Rwandan media, the Director of HVP Gatagara in Rwamagana District, Father Jules Maurice Ntirenganya, said the new curriculum will help all children with visual impairments because it will be uniform in all schools and can help them in interacting with each other.

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