Donald Trump’s new communications director Anthony Scaramucci vowed Sunday to usher in a fresh start in the White House, beginning with a clampdown on unauthorized leaks that have led to months of largely unfavorable headlines. “One of the first things I want to do is to get the leaks stopped,” Scaramucci told the Fox News … Read more
The US Congress is poised to approve tough new sanctions on Russia, Iran and North Korea this week after reaching a compromise deal, which the White House indicated Sunday it could support. In mid-June, the Senate overwhelmingly passed tough sanctions on Moscow and Tehran, but the text stalled in the House of Representatives, until agreement … Read more
Donald Trump’s new communications chief has deleted tweets in which he shared views contrary to the US presidents’ own, saying they were a distraction. The day after he started his new job Friday, Anthony Scaramucci, a New York financier, cleared up his Twitter trail of remarks in which he differs from Trump on illegal immigration, … Read more
President Donald Trump on Saturday presided over the commissioning of the US Navy’s newest next-generation aircraft carrier — a trip that offered a brief escape from the swirling political drama in Washington. Trump appeared to revel in the pomp and pageantry of the ceremony aboard the ship at the sprawling Norfolk naval base in Virginia, … Read more
US President Donald Trump has attacked “illegal leaks” following reports his attorney general discussed campaign-related matters with a Russian envoy. The Washington Post gave an account of meetings Attorney General Jeff Sessions held with the Russian ambassador to the US, Sergey Kislyak. Mr Sessions has previously denied discussing the election campaign. US authorities are investigating possible … Read more
SME -focused commercial bank, Premium Bank, has announced a ₵5 million integrated credit facility for members of the Ghana Startup Club 100 through its HelpStation initiative. Beyond the integrated credit facility, Premium Bank will also be providing digital solutions to the various startups to aid their online financial transaction. Managing Director, Kwasi Tumi, made the … Read more
Embattled US Attorney General Jeff Sessions discussed campaign-related issues with the Russian ambassador to Washington during the presidential race – something Sessions has insisted he did not do, The Washington Post reported late Friday. The paper quoted current and former administration officials who cited US intelligence intercepts of Ambassador Sergey Kislyak’s accounts to his bosses … Read more
Embattled US Attorney General Jeff Sessions discussed campaign-related issues with the Russian ambassador to Washington during the presidential race — something Sessions has insisted he did not do, The Washington Post reported late Friday. The paper quoted current and former administration officials who cited US intelligence intercepts of Ambassador Sergey Kislyak’s accounts to his bosses … Read more
Anthony Scaramucci, named Donald Trump’s new White House communications director, is a millionaire former hedge fund investor who shores up the stable of bankers in the president’s inner circle. It is the first administration role for the 53-year-old Republican fundraiser with telegenic looks who has long been an articulate surrogate for the president and who … Read more
GOIL shares maintained a winning streak for the first half of 2016 on the local bourse. The list OMC managed to keep the equity attractive by recording periodic capital gains over the other listed OMC (i.e. TOTAL). The fundamentals of GOIL have remained robust throughout the first half of the year after it outperformed most … Read more
Customer service has become one of the major factors that differentiates businesses that work and the ones that fail. It is therefore important for businesses to align with current trends in the market place to be able to survive. The Ghana Customer Experience Summit comes at a time when businesses are on the lookout for … Read more
General Electric reported lower second-quarter earnings Friday following a mixed performance of its industrial division as outgoing chief executive Jeff Immelt prepares to step down. Net income was $1.2 billion, down 57 percent from the year-ago period. Revenues fell 11.8 percent to $29.6 billion. The results in the 2016 period were boosted by the inclusion … Read more
Chairperson of the Electoral Commission (EC), Mrs Charlotte Osei, has rubbished allegations of abuse of office, causing financial loss to the state and breaches of the country’s procurement law leveled against her as totally baseless. Some staff of the Commission have petitioned President Akufo-Addo to cause the Chief Justice, Ms Sophia Akuffo, to initiate impeachment proceedings … Read more
The suicide of a 23-year-old worker on Tokyo’s Olympic stadium was due to overwork, his family said, as Japan races to finish building venues for the 2020 Games. The construction firm employee, who began working on the project in December, clocked 200 hours of overtime in the month before his body was found in April, … Read more
US entrepreneur Elon Musk said Thursday he’d received tentative approval from the government to build a conceptual “hyperloop” system that would blast passenger pods down vacuum-sealed tubes from New York to Washington at near supersonic speeds. “Just received verbal govt approval for The Boring Company to build an underground NY-Phil-Balt-DC Hyperloop. NY-DC in 29 mins,” … Read more
Donald Trump hit the six-month point of his turbulent presidency Thursday in combative style — lashing out at his own attorney general over the probe into Russia’s alleged election meddling that has dogged him from day one. Since taking office on January 20, Trump has been on a roller coaster ride, and the gut-wrenching twists … Read more
Indian oil-to-telecom conglomerate Reliance Industries’s first-quarter consolidated profit jumped 28 percent Thursday, pumped up by higher margins from its core oil refining business, the group said, beating analyst estimates. Consolidated net profit for the three months through June rose to 91.08 billion rupees ($1.4 billion), up from 71.13 billion rupees a year earlier, said the … Read more
The United States on Thursday hit oil giant ExxonMobil with a $2 million fine for violating Ukraine-related sanctions, at a time when Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was still in charge of the company. The Treasury Department said Exxon had business dealings with Igor Sechin, president of Russian state energy company Rosneft, who was blacklisted … Read more
The Islamic State group is falling “very fast,” US President Donald Trump said Thursday as he visited the Pentagon for a military strategy meeting. “We’re doing very well against ISIS. ISIS is falling fast, very fast,” Trump said, using another acronym for IS. Trump’s comments come at the six-month mark of his presidency, for which … Read more
Beyoncé’s first picture of twins Rumi and Sir Carter has over 9,000,000 likes and counting but a mother from County Cork is giving her a run for her money. Sharon Kellaway, from Kilworth, recreated the look with five-month-old-twins Senan and Zoe, in less salubrious surroundings – her own back garden. Sharon told the BBC: “I saw the … Read more