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Magic Johnson's Life Insurance Company To Distribute $100 Million in Federal Loans to Minority Businesses
Former Los Angeles Lakers guard and team president Earvin “Magic” Johnson announced his life insurance company will provide $100 million for women- and minority-owned small businesses as part of the Paycheck Protection Program
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Armstrong, Paula
Paula Armstrong is the president of Armstrong Accounting, Inc. She has over 30 years experience in the accounting & bookkeeping field.  Her business has a variety of clients, including non-profit agencies, lawyers, consultants, construction companies, massage therapists, chiropractor, marine
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Could Getting Fired Be Your Big Break? It Was For Designer Bailey Li!
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Kenya: Substandard Hand Sanitisers Withdrawn From Kenyan Market
The Kenya Bureau of Standards (Kebs) has ordered eight companies in the country to remove their hand sanitisers from the market for failing to meet the country's required
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Massive Die-Off of Fish on Nigerian Coastline Linked to Toxic Discharge
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Zimbabwe: Panic At Bakers Inn As 22 Suspected COVID-19 Cases Observed
Fear gripped Bakers Inn employees and management last week after 22 cases of suspected Covid-19 cases were observed when workers went through the now mandatory Covid-19
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Covid-19: Uganda to test all truck drivers
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Nigeria: Shippers' Council, NCDC Collaborate On COVID-19 Sensitisation
The Nigerian Shippers' Council (NSC) has announced that it is collaborating with the Nigerian Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) to contain the spread of COVID-19, particularly in the Maritime community in
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JAMAICA’S HIGH commissioner to the United Kingdom (UK), George Ramocan, led an outpouring of tributes for the late Oliver Clarke, former chairman of the RJRGLEANER Communications and Jamaica National
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Five Acts to Follow: Legislation to Cut Rents and Other Bills You Should Know About
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Zimbabwe: Universities to Reopen June 1, Final Year Students to Be On Campus - Minister
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Zimbabwe: 48% of Local Sanitisers Fail Standards Tests
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Casablanca Finance City (www.cfca.ma) was awarded last Thursday in Abidjan the “Africa Economy Builders’ Grand Prize” in recognition for its performance and contribution to the development of
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How Businesses Can Adapt And Prosper In A Post-Pandemic Economy
“Many businesses won’t be able to return to their old way of doing things, but in some cases that might be just as well,” says Bill Higgs, an authority on corporate culture and the ForbesBooks author of the Culture Code Champions: 7 Steps to Scale & Succeed in Your those old ways probably
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Botswana: Truck Drivers Feel COVID-19 Pinch
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Manhattan Venture Partners Taps Rashaun Williams as General Partner of the MVP All-Star Fund
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