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A week ago, donors reduced funding to Uganda’s education sector over allegations of graft and impaired performance under free primary and secondary education programmes. The development ironically came after Makerere University students at the School of Engineering, Art, Design and Technology brought for test drive on campus an electric car they made, captivating the nation over its reserve of a ...

The federal government yesterday in Abuja intensified efforts at sensitizing farmers and other Nigerians towards massive cultivation of Jatropha Curcas for bio-diesel production and processing for the country to attain energy security through optimal utilization of its numerous resources. The Minister of Science and Technology, Prof Ita Ewa, made the call at a workshop in Abuja to sensitise the public ...

The African Group of Negotiators leading the continent’s climate change agenda at the ongoing COP 17 in Durban, South Africa, say November 29, 2011 that they will vow not to bury the Kyoto Protocol in Africa. The Kyoto Protocol is an international agreement linked to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The Protocol sets binding targets for ...

Residents of border communities in Borno and Yobe States yesterday said that the discovery of oil in Niger, Chad and Cameroon is a good omen for Nigerians because smugglers would no longer have anywhere to export oil from Nigeria to. Our correspondent reports that in Borno State, places like Kukawa, Abadam, and Mobbar have a common border with Niger in ...

Didier Drogba is ready to walk away from Chelsea after rejecting a January move to AC Milan. The striker, 33, is in the final season of his £120,000-a-week contract and has turned down a 12-month extension. Now he is poised to quit Stamford Bridge as a free agent next summer for a lucrative switch to Russia or Qatar. Drogba’s agent ...