Kenya Breweries Sponsors Youths An Women In Technical Skills
Close to 300 youth and women from Nairobi, Kiambu and Nakuru counties have graduated from the Kenya Breweries Limited sponsored Heshima programme at Langiri Grounds in Kibera Constituency. Heshima is a vocational and entrepreneurship training programme which aims to equip youth and women from across Kenya with practical skills to enable them earn a decent […]
Health Workers To Embark On Nationwide Strike
National President of Nigeria Union of Allied Health Professionals, Dr. Ogbonna Chimela, has declared that nothing would stop the Union from embarking on nationwide industrial disharmony on the expiration of its 30 days ultimatum, if Federal Government failed to implement their demands. He explained that the Union had issued a 30 working day ultimatum to […]
MTN Gets N221m Waiver From Kano
Governor Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano State waived the permit fee of N221m for the deploy ment of fibre infrastructure in the state by MTN Nigeria, The PUNCH learnt on Sunday. Our correspondent gathered that officials of the Kano State Urban Planning and Development Authority had last week arrested some employees of Huawei Technology Company, working […]
The Abuja-Kaduna Airports: A testimony
I have just returned from Abuja travelling through the Kaduna airport. As we disembarked from the aircraft and moved towards the arrival section, I could hear an announcement being made. The diction of the announcer was clear. She didn’t sound like those On-Air-Personalities (OAP, they are called) who speak as if they have hot water […]
Woman Engineer Lights Up Zambia’s Rural Community
Born in 1979 in Kaoma district in the western part of Zambia, Likonge Makai, an energy systems expert, did not know that one day she would be a source of light to many families in Zambia. Today Likonge prides herself in providing the most efficient and affordable source of energy to households under her nongovernmental […]
Kogi Awards N31 Billion Road, Electrification Projects
THE Kogi State government has approved over N31billion for the construction and rehabilitation of roads in Lokoja, the state capital and the eastern part of the state. Apart from road construction, the state government also approved N450 million for the improvement of electricity in Agassa community in Okene Local Government and Ogori/Magongo council areas of […]
African Voices Must Speak Up for Infrastructure Financing, Support
Lesotho is facing challenges in financing its Queen Mamohato Hospital, which costs U.S. $67 million a year to run, representing half of the country’s meagre health budget. The project, which the World Bank’s International Finance Corporation helped design, is a result of a public-private partnership (PPP) agreement between the Lesotho government and a South African […]
Dansol Pupils To Raise N25m For Community School
The Chairman, Parents Teachers Association, Dansol Schools, Lagos, Mrs. Olubukola Ajoku, has called on parents to invest in education projects which would benefit the less-privileged members of the society. According to her, doing so will ensure that every child in the society lives in comfort and safety. Ajoku said this on Sunday during a […]
Lighting Up and Powering Africa – AfDB Boosts Eskom’s Capacity With a Usd 1.34 Billion Jumbo Loan
Within the context of the New Deal on Energy for Africa, the African Development Bank (AfDB) and South Africa’s power utility (Eskom) on Wednesday, July 7, 2016 in Johannesburg, signed loan facilities for a USD 1.34 billion towards Eskom’s capital expenditure program. Eskom’s 2016-2020 capital expenditure program includes investments in new generation, plant refurbishment, transmission […]
Tanzania Starts to Build Its Own Helicopters
Tanzania has started to build its own helicopters in a project that will see the first batch of such choppers taking into the sky sometimes in 2018. Already, the prototype model, a two-seater aircraft is in its final stages of completion at the Mechanical and Engineering Department of the Arusha Technical College, which runs a fully-fledged […]
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