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Former Governor of Kano State Alhaji Abubakar Rimi says the anti- corruption hype in Nigeria should be considered a joke if former President Olusegun Obasanjo is not probed. Rimi said this on Wednesday in Jos at the 2009 law week and memorial lecture in honour of late Justice Dauda Zaki.
OVER 30m/- is expected to be raised at the Charity Golf Day at the Dar es Salaam Gymkhana club on December 5, to support people with visual impairment.
TANZANIA'S Police Barracks will take part in a continental darts tournament dubbed 'SARPCCO games 2009,' to take place in Malawi from November 30 to December 14.
THE government has said that it will increase tobacco production from 58,702 tonnes of the previous year to 60,000 in the current 2009/2010.
A study by the World Bank Dar es Salaam office has criticized the cashew nuts warehouse system, saying it does not help farmers get good prices and creates more liabilities to the government.
Azania Construction Advisory Initiative has embarked on a program to train building inspectors in all the regions and districts in order to curb various problems facing the construction industry in the country.
I could never have a cup of tea without sugar. Some people think I am living dangerously, and they could be right. Although sugar is not something people fear to ingest, just like any other food, too much of it is certainly bad. And for the extremists any sugar is too bad for your health.
Koala Bears are to Eastern Australia what Pandas are to China. The same can be said of Gorillas and Uganda. Uganda is home to a little over half of the world's population of these amazing creatures which stands at about 720 individuals and whose year of dedication, 2009, is coming to an end.
The statistics of our country's economy still rate Uganda as predominantly peasant.Peasant life basically entails trying to obtain livelihood from toiling for oneself on one's piece of land. This is usually based on the use of rudimentary implements to work the land. The peasant income is always paltry, worsened by permanent strangulation from higher costs of living.
President Museveni recently directed the minister responsible for Water and Environment to send Damian Akankwasa, the Executive Director of the National Forestry Authority, on a three-month leave. The President also directed that an investigation be instituted into the circumstances under which Akankwasa came to possess Shs 900 million.
The debate about the overly hyped patriotism or lack thereof, and the millions of shillings channeled therein could only be more salty if Kabajago Ka-Rusoke, the NRM ideologue, were to inject an input. Many of us who have, either by proxy or direct contact, intimated with the economic and political ideas of Ka-Rusoke will attest that there is no such a thing lacking in Uganda's polity as ...
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There is a misperception created that the late Major General James Kazini was mistreated by President Museveni and the system during the evening of his life. Though a national hero, evidence suggests that Kazini committed grave offences against the state of Uganda.
Orange Uganda and Apple will launch the iPhone 3GS in the country next month after the phone turned heads in the USA and UK. Orange is hoping to target the elite clientele, seeking more value for their money from their cellular phones.
The biggest argument the NRM Chairman, Yoweri Museveni, has put on the table to push for the Land (Amendment) Bill 2007 is that it will stop rampant eviction of peasants from the land. This sole argument has been chorused by all paid up cheerleaders in and outside Parliament.
Someone who returned to this city a couple of years ago after a stint in Europe admits he was amazed at how much transformation there was in the fashion industry. The girls' dress sense was very much in step with what he had seen in some of the fashion capitals of the world.
ECONOMIC Development Minister Ebrahim Patel has identified deindustrialisation as a major threat to the South African economy and says the government is going to come up with a plan to fix it.
NORWAY was a critical market in Europe that would help SA diversify its trade away from its traditional dependence on European Union (EU) countries and towards the Balkan states and Russia, Trade and Investment SA chief operating officer Riaan le Roux said yesterday.
THE SABC's financial collapse has stalled the business future of TV's hottest young writer just as she's nominated for an International Emmy award. Yet Portia Gumede still sees the future of her industry in the export market, and has several more potential winners waiting for funding next year.
The Nigerian Economic Summit Group has slated Nigeria's economic score card for discussion by industry and policy leaders at its forthcoming summit scheduled for December15-17, 2009 in Abuja tagged NES at 15 'Scorecard of Nigeria's Economic Progress: Bridging the Implementation Gap.
Nigerian farmers participating in the biocontrol of aflatoxins using Aflasafe -- a biocontrol product developed by the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), have said that grain quality after application of the product improved, signaling prospects of a significant drop in aflatoxins on the grains.
THE Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) has signed today the Long Range Identification Tracking System ( LRIT) Services Agreement with International Mobile Satellite Organization (IMSO) in London UK.
The arrest order placed on Chief Orji Kalu by the Imo House of Assembly on the grounds that he failed to personally appear before it to defend allegations he made against Governor Ikedi Ohakim has been described as an act of cowardice, orchestrated by Ohakim and ill- motivated.
Governor Martin Elechi of Ebonyi State has called on the Muslim faithful in the state to use the occasion of this year's Eid-el-Kabir celebration to renew their spirit of obedience to the will of Allah.
Governor Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State has identified peace and unity as a major ingredient needed for the survival of the nation.
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