Nigeria: Non-Release of N8.6 Billion Stalls Health Projects
Immediate past Acting Executive Director of National Primary Health Care Development Agency, NPHCDA, Dr. Emmanuel Abanida, Wednesday, said several primary health care projects amounting to N8.6 billion...
View ArticleKenya: 4,000 KNH Staff On Strike Over Allowances
OPERATIONS at the Kenyatta National Hospital were yesterday paralysed after employees went on strike demanding to be paid Sh230 million in commuter allowances.
View ArticleSouth Africa: IFPYB Meets UDM Youth and Azapo Youth
The IFPYB National Spokesperson, Ntuthuko Majozi, announced today that an IFPYB delegation will meet the UDM Youth Vanguard and AZAPO Youth Organisation Delegations on Saturday, 12 November 2011 in...
View ArticleUganda: Caning Does Not Reform the Child
I understand many parents and teachers express fear that when children are not beaten, they get out of control and become unruly.
View ArticleKenya: Case to Stop Hiring of Moi Hospital CEO Withdrawn
A high court case which sought to stop the appointment of a CEO for the Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital in Eldoret has been withdrawn. The Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (CHRD), which filed...
View ArticleKenya: House Team Quizzes Kingi, PS Over Bad Maize
THE Ministry of Industrialisation is fighting criticism that it fell under the weight of rogue importers by allowing bad maize to be imported into the country and improved to meet specified standards.
View ArticleAngola: Local Returnees Get ID Card
At least 252 Angolan citizens, who returned from DR Congo, in the framework of organised and voluntary repatriation process, received birth registration paper and ID card.
View ArticleKenya: Landslides in Marakwet East Displace Thousands
THOUSANDS of Marakwet East residents have been left homeless after landslides hit the area. As a result of the heavy downpour, there are fears that more landslides are prone to cause destruction in the...
View ArticleSouth Africa: Dance Musician Haddaway to Perform At Cape Town Bike Festival
International dance musician Haddaway is the latest artist announced to perform at the Cape Town Bike Festival, Cape Town Stadium between 16 and 18 December, 2011.
View ArticleRwanda: Unicef Commends Rwanda for Focusing On Adolescents At 7th Annual...
Adolescents should not be the missing face of AIDS
View ArticleSouth Africa: Anti-Rabies Campaign Starts in Ethekwini
The eThekwini Municipality's Health Unit is embarking on an anti-rabies road show aimed at informing people about the outbreak of rabies and the importance of getting dogs vaccinated.
View ArticleKenya: Youth Groups Servicing Their Loans Well, Says CEO
THE youth enterprise fund has disbursed over Sh5.2 billion loans to young people in the country since its inception, a fund's report states. The loans were advanced to over 144,000 youth enterprises...
View ArticleSouth Sudan: GRI to Construct Orphanages in Country
The Great Reach Inc. (GRI) of the American church will construct orphanages in South Sudan, the organization's President Dr Cliff Daffron announced today during a meeting with the minister for...
View ArticleSudan: Health Workers in South Darfur Go On Strike
Demand payment of arrears from the past eight years
View ArticleTanzania: Interest Rates On Bills Go
BANK of Tanzania (BoT) has again raised interest rate of six months and one year Treasury Bills (TBs) to reach over 12 years high, on the backdrop of tightening monetary policy to stabilize exchange...
View ArticleTanzania: BoT Chief Blames Banks On High Interest Rates
World Bank money lent to commercial banks through Tanzania Mortgage Refinance Company Limited which in turn goes to clients seeking to acquire homes is charged eight per cent interest rate only hence...
View ArticleNigeria: Fuel Subsidy Debate Over the Years
The raging dispute between government and civil society over appropriate pricing of petroleum products may well go down in history as Nigeria's One Hundred Years Wars, given that no side has been able...
View ArticleNigeria: CBN Disburses N2.05 Billion to Farmers
UBA tops list of defaulting banks - A total of N2.05 billion was disbursed in October for seven projects under the Commercial Agriculture Credit Scheme (CACS).
View ArticleNigeria: Needless Airports
Latching on to the populist notion of attracting investors to catalyse local development, several governors have muscled their way to build airports in their states. Their sincerity is questionable....
View ArticleNigeria: Fuel Subsidy Inflames Jonathan, Buhari Row
Although Buhari is in the opposition, he does not politicise the issue of fuel subsidy because he knows the country will benefit from it. It is strange that those who should know better have turned to...
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