Infrastructures

News : Infrastructures

UNRELIABLE and interrupted electricity supply has hindered industrial growth, a minister said last week. (AllAfrica)

An ambitious investment programme by the Kenya Electricity Generating Company could, in less than five years, end the East African powerhouse's reliance on expensive fossil-fuel based power from independent power producers. (AllAfrica)

Kotu Senior Secondary SchoolÂ's Information and Communication Technology (ITC) club, on Thursday organised an inter-school quiz for ten seinor schools in the Greater Banjul Area and Western Region at Kotu Senior Secondary School ground. (AllAfrica)

Stalled or delayed projects under the Economic Stimulus Programme are now set to be revived following the passage of the Appropriations Bill last week, Finance minister Uhuru Kenyatta has said. (AllAfrica)

ABIA State Government, weekend raised hope that the NNPC depot at Osisioma, near Aba would soon be reopened. (AllAfrica)

Tigo Rwanda, the third mobile operator in the country, is launching Monday 23, with a record of over 30,000 subscribers. (AllAfrica)

Smile Telecom, the first ever Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) telephone provider launched its services on the Uganda market last week - bringing the number of telecommunication providers to seven. (AllAfrica)

Imagine life without a toilet. Imagine the mess. Imagine the disease. This is why Hon Elvis Afriyie Ankrah, Deputy Minister, Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development (MLGRD), has called on Ghanains to treat the discussion of toilets as "serious business." (AllAfrica)

As the cause of 1 death every 6 hours (with the economically active at most risk) and costing an equivalent to 1.6% of Ghana's GDP, road carnage presents a significant barrier to Ghana's development agenda. It is the gravity of this problem that made the road safety conference (held on the 4th and 5th November) in commemoration of the 10th anniversary of the National Road Safety Commission (NRSC) and Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) a timely reminder of the need for immediate action to stop the carnage on our roads. In their 10 years of existence, these institutions have performed remarkably in getting the fatality rate from 38 persons to 19 persons per 10,000 vehicles; making Ghana one of the best cases in Africa. Nevertheless, there was a unanimous consensus that more needs to be done as soon as possible. (AllAfrica)

The Minister of Public Works Samuel Kofi Woods has acknowledged that the lack of maintenance is seriously hampering road rehabilitation activities in the country. (AllAfrica)

The United States government, through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), officially handed over the rehabilitated Harper City Hall/ Maryland County Administration Building to the government of Liberia, after completing five months of rehabilitation work. USAID provided a $450,000 grant to the Ministry of Internal Affairs to rehabilitate the building under its Liberia Community Infrastructure Program (LCIP). (AllAfrica)

Residents of Aso in Mararaba yesterday expressed their displeasure over power outage that has afflicted their community for over eight months. (AllAfrica)

A Tanzania Investment Centre official has urged the private sector to combat climate change. (AllAfrica)

The Government is once again being urged to protect local industries. (AllAfrica)

Just how digital literate your future church pastor will be? (AllAfrica)

Lately, there have been reports in the media about the impending analogue to digital TV switchover, putting the deadline date on December 22, 2012. One question, however, comes to mind: Are we prepared? To compound the puzzle even further, it has been reported that Uganda Broadcasting Corporation, itself a competitor in the business, will have exclusive rights to distribute the digital signal. (AllAfrica)

Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) managed airports have recorded higher passenger and aircraft traffic in the first quarter of 2009 in comparison with figures for the same period in 2008. (AllAfrica)

A former student of the Igbinedion University, Okada, Edo state, Okoro Osagie Victor, alias Jerry Finger, has been arrested by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC , for allegedly defrauding foreigners to the tune of $96, 607 through the internet. (AllAfrica)

With a whopping credit facility of $200 million (N25.2 billion), World Bank Assisted Improvement projects in Lagos State have not lived up to expectations, THISDAY has learnt. (AllAfrica)

Lagos state Governor, Mr Babatunde Fashola, SAN, has declared that the state Continuously Operating Reference Station (CORS) and Global Positioning System (GPS) which has been successfully completed will soon come up live. (AllAfrica)

The Central Bank of Kenya is breathing a sigh of relief as the integration of mobile money services with banking systems takes shape. (AllAfrica)

Nigeria descended lower on the corruption index this year and this attracted a lot of attention by government watchers but last year progress was made which did not attract much comments. (AllAfrica)

The long-held duopoly of MTN and Rwandatel in the telecom sector ceases today as Millicom International Cellular (MIC), the country's third national telecom operator officially launches its commercial services to the Rwandan market. (AllAfrica)

Rwanda will on November 27 join the rest of the world to celebrate Africa Industrialization Day. (AllAfrica)

WORKS minister, John Nasasira, has ordered Salini Construttori, the contractor of the Kampala Northern Bypass, to wind-up works on the project by the end of this month. (AllAfrica)

THE re-development of Port Bell in Luzira, will cost $13m (about sh24.2b), the director of transport at the works ministry, said last week. (AllAfrica)

The Ministry of Information Communication Technology recently embarked on Phase Two of the $106m (sh212b) on the nation backbone infrastructure IT project. Government's noble intention is to extend 2,130km of fibre optic cable to the countryside, so as to provide high speed bandwidth for faster communication, data and information flow. (AllAfrica)

Telecom companies have welcomed Smiles Communications Uganda Limited to the market but warned the new firm of stiff competition. (AllAfrica)

The non payment of 17 months salaries to staff of ailing Nigeria Telecommunications Limited (NITEL) and its mobile arm, MTEL by their former owners, Transcorp and now government is causing disquiet among the two firms' staff members. (AllAfrica)

Nigerian engineers have been urged to live up to expectation to enhance technological development and stem the tide of rampant building collapse in the country. (AllAfrica)

The growth of cellphone use, particularly in the developing world, is providing health experts with a new channel of communication to provide family planning information. (AllAfrica)