Posted By:  ekwuruke Posted On:  Nov 21, 2007	Climate Change and young people
Climate change is one of the most critical global challenges of our age. The many recent events have emphatically demonstrated our growing vulnerability to climate change, it is demanding as the day pass by our definition of the issue. Climate change impacts will range from affecting agriculture-...... [view]

Posted By:  ekwuruke Posted On:  Nov 10, 2007	World Bank Commends Government on EDPRS
The World Bank country manager has commended the country's Economic Development and Poverty Reduction Strategy for targeting the agriculture sector. Victoria Kwakwa, the World Bank boss said the EDPRS rightly places considerable emphasis on agriculture and focuses on raising agricultural...... [view]

Posted By:  ekwuruke Posted On:  Nov 10, 2007	Nigerian Government hits tobacco companies with whopping law suit
The Nigerian federal government filed a suit in the High Court of Abuja on Tuesday against tobacco companies British-American Tobacco, Philip Morris International, and International Tobacco Ltd., seeking US$42.4 billion in reparations for damage they have caused to Nigerians' health. The...... [view]

Posted By:  ekwuruke Posted On:  Sep 24, 2007	Nigerian House Speaker Seeks Boost in Technology
Speaker of the House of Representatives, Honourable Patricia Etteh, has declared that turning around the nation's science and technology sector is the surest guarantee of positioning Nigeria as one of the top economies by the year 2020. Etteh said this yesterday at the inauguration of House...... [view]

Posted By:  ekwuruke Posted On:  Aug 10, 2007	Sub-Sahara Africa Tops in Corruption Survey
IN SOME countries, doing business may require making unofficial payments to clear red tape, or gifts to government inspectors or to officials involved in issuing government contracts. A corruption survey conducted by Enterprise Analysis unit of the World Bank called Enterprise Surveys in 68...... [view]

Posted By:  ekwuruke Posted On:  Aug 4, 2007	Again, Electricity Supply Drops By 500mw - PHCN
Again, the epileptic power supply down by 500 mega watts yesterday as a result of a reduction in gas supply to two thermal power stations in the country, the nation's electricity company has said. The management of the Nigerian Gas Company (NGC), a subsidiary of the Nigerian National Petroleum...... [view]

Posted By:  ekwuruke Posted On:  Apr 7, 2007	Africa Must Produce Better Secondary School Leavers
The World Bank has advised African countries to find ways to deliver more, and better secondary school graduates. The continent is to do this while simultaneously achieving significant efficiency gains to realise economic growth. African countries will need to rapidly adapt their education system...... [view]

Posted By:  ekwuruke Posted On:  Apr 7, 2007	UN Drafts Policy to Tackle Aids Stigma
The UN has drafted a policy on the support given to persons living with HIV/Aids. The policy will ensure that the Greater Involvement of People Living with HIV (Gipa) commitment of 1994 has relevance to governments, civil society and international donors in responses to the Aids scourge. The Gipa...... [view]

Posted By:  ekwuruke Posted On:  Mar 30, 2007	This house needs builders II
Humans she protects from her womb Though dying she still breathes Live and prospers with tomorrow, her name Prosperity singing at her corridors Her heritage within her and intact In her life tine she still works suffering with abundance of rays of hope People danced naked in her streets...... [view]

Posted By:  ekwuruke Posted On:  Mar 24, 2007	Why Security Remains a Big Problem
Security is a contested concept. The idea that security is to be achieved by cooperation more than by confrontation, and that it is an economic and social as well as a military condition, has been a common place of international politics for more than twenty five years. Different scholars have...... [view]

Posted By:  ekwuruke Posted On:  Mar 22, 2007	Gender Parity And Education Empowerment of the Girl-Child
The ministry of education has initiated a plan geared towards fostering and empowering the girl-child in education that are perceived to have been left behind because of historical imbalances that our various patriarchal cultures imposed on the fair sex. According to policy makers in the...... [view]