A total of 12 top companies were rewarded in the categories of humanities, science, engineering and commerce at the ceremony hosted yesterday, Tuesday, 8 December 2009, at the Sandton Convention Centre in Johannesburg and attended by delegates from 50 companies.
Participants in the international conference entitled " Together for the Promotion of Employment and Protection of Categories with Specific Needs" adopted the opening address of First Lady Leila Ben Ali as reference document for their works held December 7-9 in the northern suburb of Gammarth.
The opening ceremony of the International Conference on the theme: "Together for the Promotion of Employment and Protection of categories with Special needs", was marked by the awarding to First Lady Leila Ben Ali, Chairwoman of the Arab Women Organisation and of the "BASMA" Association for the Promotion of Employment for the Disabled, of the Gold Shield of the conference, handed over to her by ...
Fred Lee, Standard Chartered's regional head of Global Markets - Africa, who arrived in Banjul on Monday, 7th December 2009 for a 3-day official visit to the bank's franchise in The Gambia, will today Wednesday, leave Banjul, a press release from Standard Chartered Bank revealed.
A private company, Omega Construction Ltd, has sued 12 Members of the parliamentary Public Accounts Committee, asking the High Court to compel them to stop any utterances against the firm.
Lawmakers on Tuesday turned their guns on Internal Affairs Minister Kirunda Kivejinja and threw out a statement he had presented to the House over the subject of unpaid salaries for operatives of the Police Anti-Stock Theft Unit.
President Museveni, we were triumphantly told this week, confirmed his down-to-earth credentials when he flew economy class in a commercial flight from New York to London.
The Iganga Chief Administrative Officer has survived being lynched by a mob after he allegedly knocked down a prominent Muslim leader in the district, killing him instantly.
Residents of Bushenyi have petitioned the Resident District Commissioner to intervene in the delayed completion of the development of a Shs900 million stadium.
Traffic came to a standstill on Tuesday after local businessmen blocked Kumi Road in Mbale Municipality and turned it into a market.
Uchumi Supermarkets plans to court its main creditors for cash to meet its debt obligations after it missed target again in an ambitious debenture issue.
The long awaited refurbishment of Mandela National Stadium, Namboole should kick off next month.
In a bid to give back to less privileged communities in the rural areas, Nile Breweries Ltd has embarked on a three-year project to provide farmers with clean water.
Tororo District is expected to receive Shs$500 million (about Shs925 billion) from World Bank for the construction of a phosphate industry. Tororo Resident District Commissioner Mpimbaza Hashaka told journalist in Kampala, Monday upon the completion of the project, Uganda would increase its capital inflow and reduce capital outflow as phosphate exports are set to increase.
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The Vodafone Group Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Vittorio Colao, paid a day's working visit to Ghana on Thursday 4th December 2009.
Ten more airlines are expected to begin operations in the country before the end of the year, made up of five foreign operators and five domestic companies, the Ghana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) has hinted.
The Vice Rector of the Pentecost University College, Prof. Kwame Bosiako Omane Antwi, has urged employers to desist from the culture of bonus as incentive measures in meeting the financial targets of accountants.
An Accra Financial High Court, hearing the trial of two former state officials for the roles they played in the importation of 300,000 bags of white rice from India, was told that there was some shortage on the number of rice received from the port, in the customs bonded warehouse in Tema in the Greater Accra Region.
Ghana seems to be learning a lot of lessons from neighbouring West-African countries, including Nigeria, which are having a tough time dealing with the challenges presented them by their oil find and exploration.
SOUTH African President Jacob Zuma yesterday said Zambia was an ideal country for investment and called on South African investors to seriously consider improving the lives of ordinary people in areas where they have invested.
AS the economic crunch continues to batter nations and throw millions of people into deeper poverty, the concept of social transfers is increasingly becoming a popular mode of ensuring social protection.
ONE of the sectors to have been most affected by the world economic crisis has been the financial sector, which resulted in world stock markets falling, large financial institutions collapsing or being bought out, and governments in even the wealthiest nations coming up with rescue packages to bail out their financial systems.
THE China Non-Ferrous Metal Company/Luanshya Copper Mine (CLM) is set to inject an additional fresh investment of more than US$150 million in the rehabilitation of Luanshya Mine, which commences production on December 14.
[1] The Committee undertook a review of the macroeconomic situation against the background of developments in the global economy, assessment of the pace of domestic economic growth, the execution of the 2009 budget and the outlook for inflation.
