Kenya Tobacco Farmers’ Association joins global campaign to oppose restrictive measures Thursday 13 September 2012, Nairobi, Kenya—The Kenya Tobacco Farmers’ Association (KETOFA) representing 30,000 tobacco farmers, reacted to the publication of new proposals to regulate tobacco farming by the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC), and vowed to rally the government to oppose the measures. CEO of the Kenya Tobacco Farmers’ Association (KETOFA) Joseph Wanguhu said the proposals would have disastrous consequences if they went through. “By suggesting governments phase out tobacco growing, these ideological recommendations put the jobs of more than 30-million farmers — including... Continue Reading
By Correspondent Chinyere Ogbonna – Youths in FESTAC town in Amuwo-Odofi Local Government Area of Lagos, south-west Nigeria have decried the increasing wave of crime in the area. They made their feelings known at a news conference in FESTAC town. One of the Leaders of youth groups in the area and conveners of news briefing solution, Mr. Gbenga Akinbinu expressed concern over negative reports in the social media on FESTAC describing it as a misrepresentation of the good people of the area. Mr. Akinbinu said the briefing became necessary to redeem image of the good people of FESTAC town. He... Continue Reading
By Alfred Tembo – In a developmental move to promoting public speaking and grooming orators of international repute, German will early next year play host to the world universities debating championship slated for Berlin from December 27, 2012 to January 4 2013. The international which will be host by Berlin Debating Union (BDU) event which has since raise close to 600 Euros has an investment budget of 1million Euros looks forward to attract 1400 participants from 69 countries world over. Participants will be selected from pool of institutional based applications. BDU a debating society for the students of all institutions of higher... Continue Reading
2012 is shaping to be a decisive year for commercialization of clean technology projects deployed throughout South Africa and the African region. Despite much jostling and positioning by local and international players to become a preferred supplier of renewable energy to ESKOM, a late change of terms reference, effectively resulted in reducing power purchase prices and has caused many of the bidders to go back to the drawing board. However this has resulted in a more efficient process of elimination of sub optimal technologies which have been drawn ashore to African coasts, as surplus from developed markets, which themselves are seeking newer... Continue Reading
40 Finalists Emerge in $1 Million African News Innovation Challenge – Forty (40) pioneering digital journalism projects have been shortlisted as finalists in the inaugural $1 million African News Innovation Challenge (ANIC). The initiative is the largest fund for digital journalism experimentation in Africa, and is designed to spur solutions to the business, distribution and workplace challenges that face the media industry. In all, 513 applicants were carefully screened by a technical review panel that evaluated which projects have the best potential for strengthening and transforming African news media. Projects were also assessed for their potential to be replicated by... Continue Reading
