To: 06/11/2009
The East African Community will help resolve challenges facing the concession of railway lines in the region.
The Federal Government has injected over N7 billion for the provision of facilities for effective delivery of air navigation services by Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA), as part of measures to make the nation's airspace safer.
AIRLINES that between them carry more than 85% of the passengers arriving in SA have signed on to an electronic system to enable immigration officials to identify dodgy passengers at the point of check-in, before they even board an aircraft bound for SA.
Pirates today fired rocket-propelled grenades and automatic weapons at a 330-metre long oil tanker sailing 1,000 miles from the Somali coast.
The federal government yesterday explained why utility vehicles attached to the former Head of State and two-time presidential candidate of the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) General Muhammadu Buhari, were withdrawn.
For a capital city, the state of Kampala's roads is appallingly inapt and an embarrassment. With the current heavy rains, potholes are increasing by the day. At peak hours, commuter cars, private cars, heavy trailers, boda boda cyclists and pedestrians have to compete on the narrow roads, making driving in Kampala an agonising inconvenience.
Traders in Uganda, Kenya, Ethiopia and Djibouti will have their turnaround time on roads while transporting their goods from within and outside the countries reduced because of the planned improvement in the region's road infrastructure.
Since the opportune presidential decision in 2005 to open Tozeur's airport to international traffic, the oasis town of Tozeur now boasts 3 direct flights linking it respectively to the cities of Paris, Lyons and Nice.
Mozambican port managers have denied claims by Malawi that the current shortage of fuel in that country is due to congestion in the Mozambican ports of Nacala and Beira.
The government on Monday said only vehicles with 2003 as the year of first registration will be allowed into the country from January next year.
A cargo plane on Monday killed two crew members when it crashed at Wilson Airport, Nairobi.
Kenya's economy is losing about Sh29 billion annually due to traffic congestion in the Nairobi metropolitan region, Cabinet minister Robinson Githae said on Monday.
The national environment agency on Monday declined to issue a licence allowing construction of a Sh2.3 billion road passing through the Aberdare National Park.
Enugu State Chairman of National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW), Mr. Godwin Ede, has called for a ban on the sale of alcoholic drinks in motor-parks to curb drunkenness among drivers.
