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South Africa: OAPI: Director General Issues Video Statements Via LinkedIn Relating To The Re-issuance Of Registration Certificates 12 April 2022 Adams & Adams To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. OAPI has recently uploaded, onto its LinkedIn page, five (5) videos of the Director General (“DG”), Mr Denis Bohoussou, addressing the media and agents on a number of issues1. Most importantly the Director General stated that all registration certificates which were signed by the Assistant Director-General during the period of the suspension of the DG (being 14 October 2021 to 10 December 2021) should be cancelled and reissued on the basis that they were issued irregularly. The DG stated that the decision to cancel and reissue the registration certificates was made in accordance with the Regulations which require “all certificates pertaining to registered rights signed for by the Director General, or by any other official duly appointed by the Director General to do so“. According to the DG, any registration certificates issued during the period of his suspension were not issued in accordance with the Regulations and, as such, these registration certificates must be withdrawn/cancelled and re-issued with the signature…

Access Bank, GTBank, Stanbic IBTC, Zenith Bank, Anheuser-Bush Inbev and 20 others have made LinkedIn’s Top 25 best places to work in Nigeria in 2022. This was disclosed by LinkedIn, a global professional network company, in a statement issued and seen by Nairametrics on Tuesday. According to LinkedIn, the companies offer stability in the ever-changing world of work, as they are not only attracting employees but retaining them. The list includes companies in financial services, information technology, consumer goods, food and beverages, oil and gas, telecommunications, professional services and internet services. Highlights of the ranking Financial services companies in Nigeria dominated the list with the top four companies ranked being Access Bank, GTB, Stanbic IBTC and Zenith Bank. The world’s largest brewer, Anheuser-Bush Inbev, ranked fifth on the list. Union Bank of Nigeria Plc made the cut at number six, followed by Sterling Bank Plc at number seven British American Tobacco, BAT Nigeria, was ranked number eight. First Bank of Nigeria was ranked number nine, while Fidelity Bank and Interswitch ranked number ten and eleven respectively, further demonstrating the dominance of financial services as the best sector to grow a career in Nigeria. Other companies that are featured in the…

LinkedIn has apologized for deleting a post by a conservative Air Force veteran extolling the virtues of hard work and refusing to take responsibility for others' student debt, as the Biden administration considers wide-scale loan forgiveness.Gretchen Smith, 49, shared a post across her social media accounts Thursday featuring a photo of herself in uniform alongside a more recent shot.'I am not responsible for your student debt. I grew up in poverty in the mountains of NC. Ate from a garden, name was on community Angel tree for Christmas, bought clothes from yard sales & if I was lucky, on a rare occasion Sky City,' she wrote, referring to a defunct chain of discount stores.'I joined the Air Force then went to college. I made it happen.' The Microsoft-owned social network restricted her account and removed the post the same day, citing a violation of its 'policy on hate speech,' according to screenshots shared by Smith on Twitter.Smith, a Tennessee resident who runs the nonprofit Code of Vets to help veterans in times of crisis, immediately appealed the decision. On Sunday, the site apologized for the 'mistake' and reinstated her account.The incident highlighted the battle over the $1.7 trillion in outstanding student loan…

Shruti Raja, MD, MHS, assistant professor of neurology in the Duke University School of Medicine, has been named Faculty Director of the Duke Early Phase Research Unit (DEPRU).  As part of the Duke Office of Clinical Research, the DEPRU team partners with pharmaceutical, biotech, medical device, government agencies, foundations, and academic centers to conduct a broad range of early phase studies. Dr. Raja has served as interim Faculty Director of DEPRU since February. A board certified neurologist with subspecialty fellowship training in neuromuscular disease, electromyography, and neurology clinical drug development, Raja’s clinical research interests focus on development of new therapeutics and outcome measures for serious and rare diseases and early phase clinical research. She has served as protocol and site principal investigator for numerous phase 1 and proof-of-concept clinical trials.  Raja has served as the DEPRU Medical Director since 2019 and Medical Co-Director of the Duke Clinical Research at our Pickett Road facility since 2020. In these roles, she has developed and led complex collaborations across Duke for implementation of clinical trials and new contracts in multiple therapeutic areas. “I look forward to expanding the DEPRU’s role across campus so that DEPRU is not only a place for clinicians to…

The next time you receive a message on a social media site such as LinkedIn from someone promoting a product or service, take a close look at the sender’s profile picture. Is there anything odd about it?A missing earring, teeth off-centre, or their eyes bang in the middle of the image?The face you are looking at may not belong to a real human but could be a type of “deepfake”, one of thousands of profile pictures across social media generated by artificial intelligence to act as robotic salesmen and women.Researchers at the Stanford Internet Observatory identified more than 1,000 such accounts on LinkedIn, the social media site for professional networking.These faces do not belong to any real person, living or dead.

April 10, 2022 15:14  Follow @PortlandPolice On Sunday, April 10, 2022, at 10:15 a.m., officers from the Central Precinct were dispatched to a report of a shooting near Southwest Clay Street and Southwest 12th Avenue. When officers arrived they located an adult female who was suffering from a gunshot wound. Officers attempted life saving measures at the scene but the victim later died at an area hospital. Another female victim was transported to an area hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. Additionally, a person has been taken into custody as part of the investigation. The Portland Police Homicide Unit has responded to investigate. If anyone has information about this incident, please contact Detective Jeff Pontius at Jeffery.Pontius@portlandoregon.gov 503-823-0433 or Detective Steve Gandy at Stephen.Gandy@portlandoregon.gov. During the investigation, Southwest Clay Street is closed between Southwest 12th Avenue and Southwest 13th Avenue. The PIO is not responding to the scene. More information will be released when appropriate. ###PPB### *************

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! An Air Force veteran’s account was disabled on social media after she posted her story of rising from poverty to graduating with four degrees, saying she "made it happen" herself and is "not responsible" for anyone else’s student debt. "It's hard work, but you can do it," Air Force veteran Gretchen Smith told Fox News. "You can manage your money, no matter how small of a pot it is, you can manage it. You can pay off your debt, and you can learn lessons from it moving forward."Gretchen Smith is an Air Force veteran and the founder of the non-profit organization Code of Vets, which she started in honor of her father who died at 57 after years of struggling with post-traumatic stress disorder. The organization uses social media platforms to help veterans in crisis nationwide. Gretchen Smith joined the Air Force, rising from poverty to complete her college education (Gretchen Smith)Debate stirred this week about whether student loan debt should be forgiven following President Biden’s extension of the student loan payment pause to Aug. 31. Smith shared her story to tell Americans that it "doesn't matter where you come" from, and that…

Amazon is demanding an overturn of the historic union victory at one of its New York City warehouses, arguing that the organizers and the National Labor Relations Board tainted the results - while founder and chairman Jeff Bezos tweeted six days after the vote to celebrate being named LinkedIn's top company. The e-commerce giant listed 25 objections in the filing obtained by The Associated Press, accusing organizers with the Amazon Labor Union (ALU) of intimidating workers to vote for the union, a claim an attorney representing the union has called 'patently absurd.''Based on the evidence we've seen so far, as set out in our objections, we believe that the actions of the NLRB and the ALU improperly suppressed and influenced the vote, and we think the election should be conducted again so that a fair and broadly representative vote can be had,' Kelly Nantel, an Amazon spokesperson, said in a statement on Friday. Amazon claimed the independent federal agency's regional office, which oversaw the votes at the Staten Island warehouse, known as JFK8, 'unfairly and inappropriately facilitated the ALU's victory.' The company claims that the Congress-backed National Labor Relations Board used an 'artificial reduced number' of employees to calculate the ALU's vote, after…

Fragomen is pleased to be a strategic partner for the GME Live 22: Central & Eastern Europe on Tuesday, 12 April, 2022. GME Live 22 brings together the HR & Global Mobility community in a fresh and innovative environment where guests can share, listen, learn and grow. This event offers Global Mobility & HR leaders the opportunity to hear from inspirational industry leaders, participate in interactive breakout sessions, thought-provoking keynotes, polling, benchmarking and networking. Hear from Fragomen professionals Kasia Pinska and Andreia Ghimis as they discuss the Critical Role of Global Mobility in Crisis Management. To find out more about GME Live 22 events please email:

Countries France Spain Share Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Share Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Share Twitter Facebook LinkedIn French citizens can now obtain Spanish citizenship without renouncing their French citizenship, and vice versa, under a new agreement was signed that came into effect April 1, 2022. France is the first country outside Latin America with which Spain has signed such an agreement.This alert is for informational purposes only. If you have any questions, please contact the global immigration professional with whom you work at Fragomen or send an email to .  Countries France Spain Share Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Share Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Share Twitter Facebook LinkedIn