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Nigeria’s National Assembly Passes $32b National Budget
Both houses of the Nigerian National Assembly, the Senate and House of Representatives have passed the 2010 national budget of N4.6 trillion ($32 billion). The budget was passed three months into the new fiscal year of 2010, which means that the budget...
African Union to Open Account for Haiti with African Development Bank
The chairperson of the African Union (AU) Commission, Jean Ping, has announced the opening of an account with the African Development Bank (AfDB) to collect the contributions of member states to support the Haitian people who recently suffered from a...
Journalists in Zambia Reject Government Criticism of Inappropriate Conduct
The Press Association of Zambia (PAZA) has reacted sharply to government criticism that the association had been compromised for recently being in the forefront of opposing plans by government to enact more punitive media laws. PAZA, an organization for...
“naive Extrapolation And Collective Magical Thinking”
To continue the theme of our (cultural?) inability to learn from past mistakes, I think it is important to remember that we learn in order to get on successfully in a world that initially strikes us as the “blooming, buzzing confusion”...
Governors of Nigeria’s Ruling Party Hopeful of President Yar’adua’s Health
Twenty-two of the 28 governors of Nigeria’s ruling People’s Democratic Party (PDP) met on Tuesday to review the state of the nation and resolved that ailing President Umaru Yar’Adua was recuperating fast, just as the legal tussle aimed at forcing...
Liberian Leader Issues Executive Whistleblower Act
Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has issued Executive Order #22, a Whistleblower Act, which is intended to protect anyone who discloses information about actions of impropriety against the public interest or public good that is occurring, has...
Politician Claims Togo’s Executive Power is in Panic
Kofi Yamgnane, candidate for the February 2010 presidential election in Togo has said in a telephone conversation with APA that the Togolese authorities’ decision to expel a French diplomat was “a sign that the executive is panicking”. The Togolese...
President of Nigeria Says Electoral Reform is Solution to National Problems
President Umaru Yar’Adua of Nigeria has said in Enugu, South East Nigeria, that electoral reform is the solution to the country’s problems. He noted that the on-going electoral reform was the panacea to the social ills of the country. Yar’Adua,...
