Nigeria is looking to become a bigger player in the cocoa bean market (PIUS UTOMI EKPEI) Booming cocoa prices are stirring interest in turning Nigeria into a bigger player in the sector, with hopes of challenging top producers Ivory Coast and Ghana, where crops have been ravaged by climate change and disease. Nigeria has struggled…
Fearful that their son was becoming entangled in a gang and having failed to change his behavior, two London parents tricked him into traveling to Ghana, where they enrolled him in a strict boarding school and left him. A judge ruled on Thursday that they were acting in his best interest. The boy, now 14,…
With Donald Trump elected again as US president, China is concerned about the self-professed “Tariff Man” and his threats to kill off Chinese imports with big increases in tariffs, which are to be imposed on his first day back in the Oval Office next January. In response, the Biden administration and its Western allies complain…