You may also like
Cuba
The largest island of the West Indies group (equal in area to Pennsylvania), Cuba is also the westernmost—just west of Hispaniola (Haiti and the Dominican Republic), and 90 mi (145 km) south of Key West, Fla., at the entrance to the Gulf of Mexico. The island is mountainous in the southeast and
Read more
Source: Fact Monster - Black History
(1926) George S. Schulyer, “The Negro-Art Hokum”
At the high point of the Harlem Renaissance where many African American artists and a growing number of white art critics were praising the outpouring of racially-influenced novels, poetry, prose, painting, and sculpture, George S. Schuyler published a searing critique rejecting the idea that the
Read more
Source: Black Past
Sponsored by Intellitech
Jun
16
1926
Zimbabwe leader sacks deputy information minister
Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa on Wednesday fired outspoken deputy information minister Energy Mutodi hours after he insulted three "abducted" opposition officials in
Read more
Source: https://www.news24.com
Zimbabwe: Forex Auction System Ill-Advised - Analysts
Government re-introduction of the forex auction system -- as Zimbabwe effectively re-dollarises - could have disastrous consequences because the country does not have adequate sources of foreign currency, economic commentators have
Read more
Source: allAfrica.com
Africa: Zimbabwe Reflects On African Gains
Zimbabwe yesterday joined the rest of Africa in celebrating the 57th Africa Day anniversary with several organisations sending solidarity messages to mark the formation of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), now the African Union
Read more
Source: allAfrica.com
Sponsored by National Association of Asian American Professionals (NAAP) Boston Chapter
Zimbabwe: RBZ Slashes Zipit Daily Limits in Bid to Tame Forex Black Market
The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ)'s Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) has directed Zimswitch to slash ZIMSWITCH Instant Payment Interchange Technology (ZIPIT) daily and monthly limits to $20 000 and $100 000
Read more
Source: allAfrica.com
Armed Black Activists Swarm Satilla Shores District Where Ahmaud Arbery Was Murdered
Legally armed black citizens and members of the New Black Party recently showed up in the predominately white neighborhood of Satilla Shores in Brunswick, Georgia where Ahmaud Arbery was killed, according to News
Read more
Source: Your Black World
Rwanda: Mobile Money Transactions Grow By 450% in 3 Months
The value of funds transferred via Mobile Money grew by 450 per cent between January and April this year to reach Rwf 40 billion (over $ $42 million), data from Rwanda Utilities Regulation Authority
Read more
Source: allAfrica.com
Zimbabwe's security forces sideline government as economy crashes
Zimbabwe’s security force leaders sidelined the nation’s economic chiefs and forced the government to close the stock exchange and halt most mobile-money transactions, people familiar with the situation
Read more
Source: https://www.news24.com
Businesses And Crypto: Finding The Value And Managing The Big Risks – The Wilmington Journal
The good news for cryptocurrency is that El Salvador decided to adopt it as legal tender and the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision issued a proposal to let banks handle digital assets like Bitcoin. The [...]
Read more
Source: The Wilmington Journal
Human rights group: Hungry Zimbabwe refugees forced out by Botswana
GABORONE—A human rights group said hundreds of refugees from Zimbabwe are being forced back home from neighboring Botswana and the refugees haven’t had access to food during COVID-19 restrictions in
Read more
Source: New Orleans Data News Weekly – The People’s Paper
Money Makers: Millennials and Trading  | The Michigan Chronicle
Trader Candace Green   When trade is visualized most see the hustle and bustle of interactions, white-collar businessmen in suits and a fast-paced life of cars and cash as laid out in movies like “The Wolf of Wall Street.” While this may have been the case previously, the trade world is taking on
Read more
Source: Michigan Chronicle - Powered by Real Times Media
South African
LOTTO Results edit post Daily Lotto results for Sunday, 28 February 2021 2021-02-28 edit post Lotto and Lotto Plus results for Saturday, 27 February 2021
Read more
Source: South African News | Online News | The South African
ZSE suspends trading
THE Zimbabwe Stock Exchange Limited (ZSE) has suspended trading on the local bourse until further notice following government’s directive, Justin Bgoni, the exchange’s chief executive officer has
Read more
Source: NewsDay Zimbabwe - Everyday News for Everyday People
Burundi's Nkurunziza leaves a mixed legacy
Burundi President Pierre Nkurunziza, who died of a heart attack aged 55 according to an official statement released on Tuesday, has left behind a mixed
Read more
Source: The East African
Stranded Ethiopian migrants repatriated from Lebanon
Ethiopia is repatriating hundreds of its citizens working abroad, many of who are stranded because of the coronavirus
Read more
Source: Africanews | Latest breaking news, daily news and African news from Africa
Sponsored by Diversity In Action
Greed is killing us: Ncube
FINANCE minister Mthuli Ncube yesterday said people could take the bond notes being rejected by the market to the bank in exchange for new notes, accusing economic saboteurs of hindering his economic revival
Read more
Source: NewsDay Zimbabwe - Everyday News for Everyday People
Sponsored by National Association of Black Accountants (NABA) Boston Metropolitan Chapter
AMHVoices: Govt ripping off tobacco farmers
THE forex auction system which started to operate on Tuesday this week is not meant to benefit the poor small-scale tobacco
Read more
Source: NewsDay Zimbabwe - Everyday News for Everyday People
Africa: Mobile Money Becomes Lifeline as Telecoms Thrive in COVID-19 Era
Mobile money and data have emerged as the lifeline in revenue growth for African-focused telecoms operators Vodacom Group and Airtel Africa across markets characterised by stiff competition and challenging regulatory
Read more
Source: allAfrica.com
CBZ Bank Launches Money Transfer Centre
Zimbabwe’s leading commercial bank has launched an exclusive Money Transfer Centre, located at the corner of First Street and Robert Mugabe
Read more
Source: NewsDay Zimbabwe - Everyday News for Everyday People
100 retail operators nabbed for not accepting Zim dollar, bond notes
Refusing to accept the Zim dollar and bond notes as payment for goods has landed 102 Zimbabwean business owners and retail employees in trouble, with 28 of these appearing in court as the government enforces acceptance of the fast-falling local unit amid increased dollarisation of the
Read more
Source: https://www.news24.com
Liquid propane could supply Zimbabwe with fuel
In December, Intergas, in a partnership with Nigerian alternative energy company THLD Group, started preparing autogas for the Zimbabwe
Read more
Source: Dallas Post Tribune – Serving the Black community without fear or favor since 1947.
Burundi: Nkurunziza Leaves a Mixed Legacy
Burundi President Pierre Nkurunziza, who died of a heart attack aged 55 according to an official statement released on Tuesday, has left behind a mixed
Read more
Source: allAfrica.com
Mangudya likens money changers to coronavirus
RESERVE Bank of Zimbabwe governor John Mangudya yesterday likened parallel market dealers to the coronavirus which is causing havoc to the
Read more
Source: NewsDay Zimbabwe - Everyday News for Everyday People
Zimbabwe: Abducted MP Mamombe, Activists Roughed Up By Makorokoza Lovers - Mutodi
Sacked Information Deputy Minister Energy Mutodi has made startling claims hospitalised MDC MP Joanna Mamombe and two female party activists were roughed up by their lovers who are illegal miners following an argument over payment of their "services" in foreign
Read more
Source: allAfrica.com
Sierra Leone needs $309 million to address COVID-19 impact on the economy – says government
“To alleviate this impact, fund the Quick Action Economic Response Programme, the Health Programme and the Social Impact Programme the Government is seeking: Additional emergency support from the IMF, including one or more of the following
Read more
Source: SIERRA LEONE TELEGRAPH – Sierra Leone News
Breaking Down The NBA’s New In-Season Tournament
If you’re a fan of international soccer, season tournaments add another element of competitiveness, but if you’re just an NBA fan, you’ve been scratching your head for months. Now, with the NBA’s first in-season tournament starting tonight, Nov. 3, you should probably have some idea of how it
Read more
Source: Cassius | born unapologetic | News, Style, Culture
Africa: Econet, Delta in Africa's Top 250 Companies in 2020
Telecoms company, Econet Wireless and beverage maker, Delta Corporation are the only two Zimbabwean companies to make it into Africa's top 250 companies in 2020 , a pan-African publication, Business Africa Magazine has
Read more
Source: allAfrica.com
Australia’s Future Fund Ramps Up Team To Meet Mandate – The Wilmington Journal
BRISBANE, Australia — Australia’s Future Fund agency will nearly double its 70-strong investment team to meet the challenges of significant changes in global markets. Future Fund Management Agency chief executive Raphael Arndt told a Senate estimates hearing the federal [...]
Read more
Source: The Wilmington Journal
Harriet Tubman on the Twenty Dollar Bill
Harriet Tubman was an amazing woman: she escaped slavery, freed hundreds of others, and even worked as a spy in the Civil War. Now she’s going to grace the front of the twenty dollar bill. But is move progress or
Read more
Source: ThoughtCo
May
12
2015
More from Premium Times - Nigeria leading newspaper for news, investigations
Kano APC crisis: Court reaffirms sack of exco loyal to Ganduje
COVID-19: Lagos drives surge as Nigeria registers 1,584 new infections
COVID-19: WHO approves new vaccine for emergency use
CCT can’t justify N400 million paid to contractors – Audit Report
Audit report knocks FIRS over questionable payments, other irregularities
50 haiku for Musikilu Mojeed, By Oladeinde Olawoyin
Police arrest suspected drug dealer, 11 others in Jigawa
Nasarawa State govt. bans use of charcoal
Customs intercepts container suspected to be loaded with arms at port complex
Nigerian women and politics: Beyond reverse discrimination, By Bolutife Oluwadele
AISOP policy is regimentation, should be revisited for economic growth – Jiti Ogunye
Evans: Prosecution closes case in alleged billionaire kidnapper's trial
Miss Nigeria 2021: How 18-year-old hijab-wearing model emerged winner
No death, injury in Lagos sawmill fire – Official
Attahiru Jega and Jibrin Ibrahim: Meditations on power politics, By Toyin Falola
Nigerian weightlifters return home with nine medals
Fani-Kayode's ex-wife accuses him of flouting court order granting her access to their children
Soldiers tortured my son to death, says police officer
Emir of Daura turbans Buhari’s son, Yusuf, as district head
Boko Haram: Buhari seeks support at Turkey-Africa Summit
IPI: Buhari congratulates Premium Times E-I-C, Daily Trust GM on election
How I was kidnapped, tortured by Evans – Businessman
Agric ministry expresses 'regrets' after failing to account for N48 billion
CBN endorses appointment of Abdullahi as new FBN Holdings chairman
EXCLUSIVE: Why Remi Babalola resigned as chairman of FBN Holdings
Nembe Spill: Investigation stalled as Aiteo allegedly 'bars' Bayelsa committee over media inclusion
EPL: Martinelli scores twice as Arsenal crush Leeds United
Fuel Subsidy Removal: NLC plans national protest Feb 1
Gov Uzodinma presents N381 billion 2022 budget to Imo Assembly
Nigerian stocks rebound with N51 billion gain
Naira stable at official market
Makoko Killing: Group accuses Lagos govt of cover-up in prosecution of alleged killer cop
Innovation, entrepreneurship, and synergy in the digital economy, By Inyene Ibanga
Premium Times editor-in-chief emerges IPI Nigeria president
Customs Recruitment: Four persons to be employed from each of 774 LGAs - Reps
Insecurity: 32 persons killed by non-state actors across Nigeria last week
Africa, Omicron and the ideology of the goat, By Owei Lakemfa
Haiti: A black nation’s struggle in the Americas, By Osmund Agbo 
MDAs hide identities of individuals who received over N15 billion in govt transactions
Despite challenges, Buhari 'steering Nigeria with uncommon dignity' - Tinubu
Customs grants suspicious N79 billion import waivers, snubs auditor-general
London-based Chimera invests $50 million in Airtel Money
I’ll return to farm after my tenure – Buhari
Remi Babalola resigns from FBN Holdings as chairman
COVID-19: Nigeria records 828 new cases Saturday
INTERVIEW: How electoral defeats to Shagari affected Awo – Folu Olamiti
NPFL: Akwa United begin title defence against Kano Pillars
Another Fayemi appointee resigns to contest for Ekiti governorship
Lagos community laments lack of potable water, infrastructure
Nigeria to commence health insurance for senior citizens, retirees – Official

Washington DC Facts

Education Facts

Literature Facts

Cuisine Facts