| Nigeria: Labour Kicks FG Over NITEL, NEPA Sales | | Posted Tuesday, October 10, 2006 2:58:16 AM by Blog57 Team | | The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has kicked against the way the Federal Government is going about the privatisation and concessioning programmes, especially the sale of National Electoral Power Authority (NEPA) and Nigeria Telecommunication Company Limited (NITEL), warning there exists deficits of transparency, caution, and consistency in the on-going exercises. The NLC Strategic Committee on Privatization set up to examine the modalities and effects of the programmes on the core and sensitive public utilities, noted that the privatisation and concession of public assets must not be approached from a doctrinaire perspective but on the need for Nigerians to have efficient access to the services these undertakings provide as a basis for an all-round development for the country. .... | |
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| | | Chicago plans voluntary evacuation in portion of downtown | | Posted Tuesday, August 29, 2006 8:58:39 AM by Blog57 Team | | CHICAGO - Mayor Richard Daley on Monday announced a voluntary evacuation drill for a section of downtown next week in order to better prepare city officials and residents in the event of a major emergency. Daley said the drill is part of events and exercises the city has scheduled in conjunction with September being designated National Preparedness Month by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. At a news conference at the city's Office of Emergency Management and Communications a day before the one-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, officials released few details about the drill, except to say it is scheduled for Sept. 7. But an e-mail obtained by The Associated Press addressed to tenants in one of the affected buildings indicated the drill involves four properties located at the intersection of Monroe Street and Wacker Drive, including the building in which the Chicago Mercantile Exchange is located.... | |
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| | | Lew Rockwell: Immorality, Inc. | | Posted Monday, July 31, 2006 2:56:26 AM by Blog57 Team | | Washington, DC, in the 1980s was called the "murder capital of the world," but that designation now belongs to Baghdad, where the number of people killed since the end of the war is approaching 42,000. The US had hoped to reduce the numbers of troops in the capital, but the incredible violence of the city has instead prompted the usual response in the age of Bush: more troops, more rules, and more martial law – and there isn't a person not on the payroll of the occupation willing to predict that this will settle folks down. .... | |
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