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Mark Zuckerberg loses $6bn in hours after Facebook outage

Mark Zuckerberg's personal wealth has fallen by more than $7 billion in a few hours, knocking him down a notch on the list of the world's richest people, after a whistleblower came forward and outages took Facebook Inc.'s flagship products offline.

Ghana maintains same cocoa producer price for new crop season

Farmers who had been pushing for a 25 percent increase in the guaranteed farm gate price at which government purchases their cocoa were left disappointed last week as the Minister of Food and Agriculture, Dr Owusu Afriyie-Akoto announced that the producer price set for the 2020/21 crop season was being retained for the 2021/22 crop season which is about to commence.

5 major oil discoveries in Africa in 2021

Despite the global slowdown in fossil fuel developments and investment, Africa has been accelerating oil and gas exploration, leveraging energy sector growth as a catalyst for wider economic development.

SSNIT begins Saturday operations

Beginning October 2, 2021, the Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) will offer Saturday services to its members and the public from 9:00am to 2:00pm at some selected branches.