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Nigeria Donates Food Grains to Chad And Niger
Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan has approved the release of 15,000 tonnes of assorted grains to Niger and Chad to mitigate the effect of the reported food crisis in the two countries. A source at the Federal Ministry of Agriculture said on Monday...
Nigeria Inaugurates Standing Committee on Power Generation
Nigeria’s Minister of State for Power, Mr Nuhu Wya, has inaugurated a standing committee to harness the nation’s water resources to boost power generation for the benefit of Nigerians. Wya said the committee was part of the strategies by the ministry...
Millions of U.K. Workers to Get First Pension
Millions of British workers have moved a step closer to getting a workplace pension for the first time as the final rules for the Government’s pensions reform were put before Parliament today. Calling this the most radical change to workplace entitlements...
Senegal Proposes Deal with Burkina Faso to Lead ECOWAS Commission
The Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade already nominated his candidate for the Presidency of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and is currently negotiating with his Burkinabe counterpart, Blaise Compaoré, to avoid a “’competition”...
Nigeria’s Federal Executive Council Approves $500m Loan From the International Development Association
Nigeria’s Minister of Information and Communications, Professor Dora Akunyili, said on Wednesday that the Federal Executive Council (FEC) has approved a loan of $500 million from the International Development Association (IDA) to finance the 2009 Supplementary...
Uganda to Host Great Lakes Conference on Sexual Violence
Uganda is to play host to the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR) expected to bring together representatives of security forces from eleven member states to review the state of the crime of sexual violence in the region as well...
Uganda Allocates $2.24m to Support And Promote Food Technology
The government of Uganda has announced an allocation of $2.24 million towards the support and promotion of the Food Science and Technology Department of Makerere University. While meeting a delegation of Food Science and Technology (FST) entrepreneurs...
Nigeria’s Target of 6,000mw Electricity Target By December is Achievable
Nigeria’s Minister of State for Power, Malam Nuhu Wya, said the 6,000 megawatts of electricity, promised by the Nigerian government by December was achievable. Wya, who was in Gombe State in northern Nigeria to inspect some power projects, told the...
