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- Determined to protect the country's waterways against internal and external forces, the Nigerian Navy has deployed 16 combat ships which are also capable of securing oil facilities in the Niger Delta Region. The vessels which include four fast attack crafts, one frigate, four cat class ships, two inshore patrol crafts and several defender boats, would next week be tested on the high sea, up to the Gulf of Guinea to ascertain their capability. |
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- The chance that the gem on your finger is an illicit or "blood diamond" has been greatly diminished, thanks to an innovative international partnership called the "Kimberley Process" that controls and monitors the world's $30 billion annual trade in rough stones. |
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- Considering that sheep farmers are losing millions on certain carcasses due to adverse pricing by local abattoirs, a research institution suggests that abattoirs found to violate the minimum set prices should be penalised. |
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- The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger-Delta (MEND) rose from a meeting in Warri, Delta State, yesterday warning Vice President Atiku Abubakar, former Military President Ibrahim Babangida, South-south governors, among other Presidential aspirants, to forget about ruling the country. |
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- NO pilchard have been caught since a 25 000-tonne total allowable catch was announced for the current season. |
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- AN unidentified person was yesterday shot dead and another injured, in confrontation with suspected militants, who struck in the wee hours of the morning and kidnapped four expatriate oil workers, including three Italians and one Lebanese in an oil installation belonging to Nigeria Agip Oil Company (NAOC), an Italian oil major at Brass Bayelsa State. |
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- The Mozambican Interior Ministry has returned to the Finance Ministry five million meticais (about 200,000 US dollars) that had been allocated for wages of workers who do not exist, according to a report in Friday's issue of the weekly paper "O Pais". |
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- RESERVE Bank governor Tito Mboweni took aim at commercial banks over the relentless growth in consumer credit yesterday, warning that unless they moved to stop the "madness" he would consider increasing the amount they are required to hold in reserve with the central bank. |
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- BLACK economic empowerment (BEE) requirements for companies are finally ready to become law after the second phase of government's codes of good practice was given the thumbs up by a cabinet meeting this week. |
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- GOVERNMENT yesterday made good on its threat to curb the sale of land to foreigners, announcing that it had approved draft legislation aimed at regulating the sale of coastal land to foreigners and the super-rich. |
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- MPs Harry Kasigwa and Chris Kibazanga are petitioning the High Court challenging the "illegal" use of money from the Consolidated Fund (CF) by government. |
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- A French-based timber company, Groupe Rougier, is in the country to explore the possibility of investing in the forestry sector of the Liberian economy. |
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- THE Uganda Communications Commission (UCC) has awarded the local arm of Abu Dhabi-based Warid Telecom a license to provide mobile phone services. |
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- In the past nine months, sorghum meal (bopi jwa mabele) - the national staple - has disappeared from the ordinary Motswana's diet because of a dramatic price increase of about 97 percent. Currently, a 10kg packet is selling for a whopping P40-P45 up from P24 in January. In contrast, maize meal (phaleche) still costs about P27 per 12kg bag. |
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- JUST what is so special about First Mutual Ltd that it can dominate the news three consecutive years for its recurring shareholder squabbles? |
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- WE do not believe Reserve Bank governor Gideon Gono's explanation that he postponed the announcement of his monetary policy to accommodate input from the Zanu PF people's conference and advice from the visiting International Monetary Fund team. |
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- ONE billion dollars might sound like a ridiculous figure for an exit package, but that is what Douglas Hoto, the outgoing First Mutual boss, will pocket for reluctantly stepping aside for one shareholder to pursue its takeover of the insurance firm unfettered. |
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- IN every sphere of human endeavour there are those among us who make it to the top. Most of them become legends, some in their lifetime, and others after death. |
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- FIRST Mutual Ltd chief executive Douglas Hoto did not resign as claimed but was pushed out by one of the major shareholders, Renaissance Financial Holdings, after frustrating its bid to completely take over the insurance company. |
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- A SPECIAL parliamentary committee has demanded guarantees that the proposed Pricing and Incomes Commission will not turn out to be another state body riddled with corruption. |
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- Parliament has unanimously agreed to pass a Non-Bank Financial Institution Regulatory Authority Bill and a Livestock and Meat Industries Bill. |
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- THE Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe is importing poor quality wheat from Intshona Agricultural Products of South Africa, the same company that supplied substandard fertiliser to Zimbabwe last month. |
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- ECA International Resources, a human resources firm, has ranked Zimbabwe's capital Harare the world's most expensive city for expatriates in 2006. |
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- PRISONERS in Zimbabwean jails have complained over the Zimbabwe Prison Services (ZPS)'s practice of using them as cheap farm labour on government officials' farms. |
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- THE cost of living as depicted by PriceWaterhouse Coopers (PWC) for a high income family of six rose to $43,2 million a year from $2,3 million (revalued) last year. |
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- Recently, the federal government made public its intention to increase the pay package of workers under its employment. Federal Capital Territory Minister, Malam Nasir el-Rufai, who is also the chairman, Public Service Reforms Committee, told the executive committee of Mortgage Bankers Association of Nigeria (MBAN) that effective January, 2007, there would be a new salary structure that will slightly enhance the total pay of public servants. |
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- "Claude Degler attended the Chicon in 1940, and at Denver in 1941 delivered a speech purporting to have been written by Martians." So begins the Fancyclopedia I entry on Degler's Cosmic Circle. Claude Degler believed that science fiction fans were destined to evolve into a new species superior to homo sapiens, "cosmen." |
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- I really like the van, but don't like getting wet! |
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- I should've gotten a Honda! |
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- A cheap comfortable limo |
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- It's a fine car for a small family and to the beginners. Very fun to drive and fast to respond |
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- This truck performs better than I expected |
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- Great truck, I'm never getting rid of it! |
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- The best small/medium car around |
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- I'm in love with my zetec s |
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- They'll never be another, awesome! |
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- Reliable mile-churner, the only thing you'll be pulling is a caravan |
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- A fantastic sporty economical reliable form of transportation! |
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- By: Eli Shimoni | Source: ynetnews.com The Tel Aviv-based company Metacafe that developed a video-sharing platform on the Internet is slated to be sold for USD 200 million, as was made known to Ynet. They also speculate that the buyer... |
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- ...For a week after I arrived at the ORS, the attacks on Hamburg continued. The second, on July 27, raised a firestorm that devastated the central part of the city and killed about 40,000 people. We succeeded in raising firestorms only twice, once in Hamburg and once more in Dresden in 1945, where between 25,000 and 60,000 people perished (the numbers are still debated)... Every time Bomber Command attacked a city, we were trying to raise a firestorm, but we never learnt why we so seldom succeeded.Part I: |
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- Author: SockFairy Posted: Sat Dec 09, 2006 4:21 am (GMT 0) Oh sweet! That is easy. |
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