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Gold Price Drops Below Mark Again This Week
Today the gold trade market gave back almost all of December’s advance in early January, retracing some of that sell-off. Gold is currently trading below $1,850 price mark again while other precious metals like Silver gained 9.30% on Monday and today dropped 6.1% lower. Platinum gained 5.52% and today dropped 2.6% lower. Palladium gained 1.51% and today it’s 0.9% higher. …
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A Look At The Future Of Artificial Intelligence
Artificial intelligence is impacting the future of virtually every industry and every human being. There’s virtually no major industry that has not keyed into the use of artificial intelligence, majorly for objective functions using data-trained models. Artificial intelligence has acted as the main driver of emerging technologies like big data, robotics and IoT, and the likes. At…
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Amazon In Wage Theft Mess, Ordered To Pay $62 Million
Amazon has been ordered to pay almost 62 million to flex workers following the outcome of a recent probe by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC). Amazon is to officially pay $61.7 million to flex workers following accusations that they stole tips from company drivers. The amount equals the tips that Amazon allegedly retained during a two-and-a-half-year period…
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Covid-19: Nigeria’s New Law Prescribes 6 Months Jail Term For Safety Violators
President Muhammadu Buhari has signed a new law that prescribes a 6-month jail term for anyone who is caught in public without a mask on. The new law designed to curb the spread of Covid-19 pandemic is targeted at forcing people to take safety protocols more seriously. The chairman of the Presidential Task Force on…
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Experts Claim Immunotherapy Might Be The Big Break In Cancer Treatment
According to research published in Nature Immunology, a newly-discovered part of our immune system could be harnessed to treat all cancers. The Cardiff University team discovered a method of killing prostate, breast, lung and other cancers through cancer Immunotherapy called the Car-T Therapy. The Research While searching for previously undiscovered ways the human immune system…
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Global Increase In Covid-19 Vaccine Enthusiasm
As the world battles with growing cases of Covid-19, a recent Ipsos MORI poll has found that vaccine hesitancy is now transitioning into a global enthusiasm for access. The issue of supply has recently made the rounds with AstraZeneca informing the European Commission that there would be a major shortfall in the number of doses it is…
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US Economy Shows Signs Of Growth As Wall Street Rises Despite Weak GDP
The US Commerce Department in 2020 reported the sharpest decline since 1946 when the US was demobilising after World War II. Compared to the fourth quarter of 2019, output was down 2.5%. However, despite soaring unemployment numbers and a sharp increase in poverty, the US was not hit as badly as many other parts of…
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A Report On Poverty Rates In Lagos State
Lagos is home to a rising population of 14,862,111, the economic capital of Nigeria has a poverty rate estimated at 8.5 percent. Lagos is often referred to as the “Megacity of Slums, it has over 6,000 millionaires (and even multi-millionaires and a handful of billionaires) while a vast majority live below extreme poverty levels. Research…
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Tokyo Olympics To Hold Despite Pandemic
Games organizing committee President Yoshiro Mori has said the pandemic-delayed Tokyo 2020 Olympics will be held this year despite health warnings and lack of public support. Deputy head of the London 2012 organising committee, Sir Keith Mills, earlier this week said he felt it was ‘unlikely’ that Tokyo would take place amid the ongoing Covid…
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22 Containers Distributed To Morgues As Covid Deaths Soar In South Africa
Afrikaanse Verbond Begrafnis Ondernemings Beperk (AVBOB) has installed 22 containers at Johannesburg morgues to help cope with a rising tide of Covid-19 deaths. Each container is said to store up to 40 corpses, keeping them at a constant zero degrees Celsius (32 degrees Fahrenheit) South Africa is Africa’s worst-hit country in the pandemic, recording an…