The Republic of France and the United States of America on Thursday reached an agreement on how to handle cross border digital tax that almost caused a trade war between the two Nations.

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Nigerian legal case with P&ID will resume again in London court in March 2020.

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Macroeconomic factors show that Africa is moving from a consumption economy to an investment-driven economy, according to the latest report.

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Swiss Police used water cannon to quench demonstration tagged Swiss against World Economic Forum in Davos.

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The US democrat Lawmakers have put together a list of witnesses for the on-going impeachment trial that is set to remove Donald Trump as President of the most powerful nation in the world.

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AYO Technology confirms the move by Sasol to end a R2 billion contract signed with the company in 2018, which has also resulted in a lawsuit that is currently in court.

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The vice president Yemi Osinbanjo on Friday had a consultation meeting with the South West Governors on the Amotekun Initiative. The meeting concluded with all the stakeholders agreeing that Each state involved will put necessary legal backings in place to ensure that Amotekun complies with the community policing policy according to the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

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The Johannesburg Stock Exchange on Friday recorded its worst weekly loss of the year 2020. According to the analyst, this was due to the impact of the coronavirus outbreak that disrupted the Asian equity market.

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Angolan-American Miner reported a loss of about $51 million in blackout related incidences caused by ESKOM load-shedding in South Africa. The losses were in forms of several ounces of platinum metal.

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Facebook will create 1,000 new roles in London over the course of this year, including adding to its team tackling harmful online content. More than half of the new jobs will be technology-focused, with roles in software engineering, product design, and data science, the company said.It will take Facebook's UK workforce to more than 4,000.Facebook's chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg will announce the new jobs in London later on Tuesday, before traveling to the World Economic Forum in Davos."Many of these high-skilled jobs will help us address the challenges of an open internet and develop artificial intelligence to find and remove harmful content more quickly," she is expected to say.Those roles will be in Facebook's "community integrity" team, which designs tools to police posts on Facebook's platforms including Messenger, Instagram, and WhatsApp.Steve Hatch, the firm's vice-president for northern Europe, told BBC Radio 4's Today program that the firm had decided to invest more in policing online content, following the suicide of teenager Molly Russell in 2017.Facebook aimed to build on the progress it had made in tackling terrorist content to remove other problematic content such as self-harming, Mr. Hatch said.The firm had detected and removed two million posts from Facebook and 800,000 from Instagram, he added.

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