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AllAfrica: Nigeria: Yar'Adua - Fresh Supreme Court Order Raises Dust
The Supreme Court last week ordered the Court of Appeal to commence a fresh trial into a petition by the presidential candidate of People's Mandate Party (MPM), Dr. Arthur Nwankwo, challenging the election of President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua on April 21, 2007.
AllAfrica: Namibia: Election Case to Supreme Court
LAWYERS for the opposition parties that challenged the 2009 elections, and lost the case in the High Court last week, submitted an urgent application to the Supreme Court yesterday, asking for the opportunity to appeal against the ruling by Judge President Petrus Damaseb, who dismissed the case on technical grounds.
AllAfrica: Liberia: Taylor Never Gave His Rebels Orders to Kill, Said Witness
A witness defending Charles Taylor today said he never heard of the former Liberian president giving orders to his own rebel forces to kill, rape, loot or burn people's houses, as alleged by prosecutors.
AME Info: Abu Dhabi schools to get upgrade
The Abu Dhabi Education Council has announced plans to upgrade all government schools in the UAE capital over the next six years. The changes, which will be introduced in phases in an effort to avoid disruption to pupils, will include bilingual (Arabic and English) studies starting from kindergarden level, a new curriculum for all schools, career guidance, a ...
AllAfrica: Nigeria: EU Donates N196 Million IT Equipment to Govt
European Union (EU) under the aegis of EU SRIP, has donated Information Technology equipment and accessories worth N196 million to the Cross River state government.
AllAfrica: Nigeria: State Scholarship Scribes Urged to Be ICT Inclined
Secretaries of State Scholarship Boards have been urged to be ICT acquiescent and create awareness among their candidates, aimed at making them to take full advantage of the newly introduced schemes by the Federal Government.
AllAfrica: Nigeria: 'Don't Stop NITEL Sale'
A cross section of staff of the Nigeria Telecommunication Limited (NITEL) yesterday reacted with mixed feeling to the suspension of the Director General of the Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE), Dr Christopher Anyanwu by the federal government. They wondered why the federal government went ahead to give an indefinite suspension to him when NITEL was on the ...
AllAfrica: Uganda: Examination Results By SMS
The short message (SMS) system of getting results from the Uganda National Examinations Board (UNEB) has left many teachers, especially those in private schools, sad and blue.
AllAfrica: Kenya: Ministers Told to Stay at Home for Constitution Debate
At least 13 Cabinet ministers have been caught up in President Kibaki's temporary ban on foreign trips to facilitate debate on the draft constitution.
AllAfrica: Congo-Kinshasa: ICC Faked Death Threats of Witness in Warlord Trial
An International Criminal Court agent forged a letter in which officials of a Congolese militia group purportedly threatened to kill a witness for agreeing to testify against Thomas Lubanga, ICC judges heard today.
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·Deep NHS IT cuts could hurt frontline healthcare, doctors warn
NHS IT projects could be in line for cutbacks followingthis week's pre-budget report. Chancellor Alistair Darling told The Andrew Marr Show yesterday that the report, due to be published on Wednesday, will provide guidance on which areas of public spending were likely to be cut.
·Whitehall's G-Cloud gets clearer
More details of the G-Cloud - the proposed government-wide cloud computing platform - have emerged. The G-Cloud will feature the hinted-at app store, according to Martin Bellamy, the director of the office of chief information officer at the Cabinet Office, and will make use of both public and private datacentres.
·Green light for UK IT skills school to arrive next year
The opening of a National Skills Academy for IT in the UK has moved a step closer, after the government announced it has approved the business plan submitted by sector skills body e-skills UK. In October 2008 the government gave the green light to a tech academy on account of IT's "critical" role in growing the national economy, and because of strong and growing demand for tech workers - more than 140,000 new IT recr ...
·IT gender pay gap getting worse
The IT gender pay gap is getting worse, according to results from the 2009 silicon.com Skills Survey. More than a third (35 per cent) of female IT workers responding to this year's survey said they were on the bottom rung of the tech pay ladder, earning less than £25k, compared to just under a third of women (32 per cent) last year. And only 14 per cent of male IT workers are in the lowest pay bracket this year, dow ...
·ID cards: Seven years of missed deadlines and U-turns
Picture the scene: the year is 2016 and ID cards have been embraced bythe British public, with most UK citizens now carrying their very own card. This increasingly unlikely scenario is how the government initially envisaged the ID card scheme would turn out way back in 2006.
·Outsourcing: UK carbon control plan needs a rethink
Encouraging businesses to go green is good but the government must better incorporate outsourcing in its carbon control scheme, says the NOA's Mark Kobayashi-Hillary Much is being said about the UK government's upcoming Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC) scheme but it remains unclear how much of this talk is translating into action and what impact the scheme will have on the outsourcing and offshoring industries.
·Leaked report reveals billions in budget cuts for public sector IT
Shared services delivered through the cloud will help the public sector shave billions from its annual IT spend, according to a leaked Whitehall report. The leaked draft document, Government ICT Strategy: New world, new challenges, new opportunities, sets out priorities for public sector IT chiefs through to 2020.
·Your top HR tech priorities for next year revealed
Working out your budgets and trying to figure out the tech priorities for your HR department in 2010? Nick Heath has a few suggestions for HR directors as to where to invest that cash on technology to get the most benefits for your team and the rest of the business. Consider standardising your systemsTake a look at what you do in the HR department and the chances are a number of companies are doing exactly the same t ...
·ID card database: 500 names added in first month
The National Identity Register - the database behind the ID card scheme - contains more than 500 names after a month of operation. The database went live on 20 October, and the identity commissioner Sir Joseph Pilling said it contains 538 names as of 19 November.
·Outsourcing: CIOs' tipson getting it right
Outsourcing deals typically promise to deliver cost savings and increased efficiency - but all too often the promises fail to match the reality. At the National Outsourcing Association's Sourcing Summit last week, two heads of IT shared their experiences of how to get the best out of outsourcing agreements and make sure they're delivering long-term value.
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·Smokers in Cirencester Industrial Estate to be given lung age test
SMOKERS in Cirencester will be given the chance to find out the age of their lungs tomorrow to mark National No Smoking Day.NHS Gloucestershires The Quit Stop Bus will be in town as part of a hard-hitting campaign to shock smokers into giving up the habit.The lung-age test will be administered by a team which will be in Cirencester Industrial Estate throughout the day.
·Beacon Hill Roll Call
BAN SMOKING IN SOME SENIOR HOUSING (H 1181) - The House gave initial approval to a bill requiring local housing authorities to provide for nonsmoking buildings in multi-building senior housing complexes or for a no-smoking floor in single-building senior housing. The bill phases in the proposed law, grandfathers in current smokers and prevents their eviction.
·Beltsville nursing home fire caused by discarded lit cigarette: Residents evacuated safely, $10,000 in damaged estimated for...
A fire that forced the evacuation of a Beltsville nursing home Thursday night was likely caused by an improperly discarded cigarette, Prince Georges County fire officials said today.The fire, which investigators have ruled accidental, occurred shortly before 9 p.m. at the Paint Branch Nursing home at 3120 Powder Mill Road in Beltsville, said Mark Brady, a spokesman for the Prince Georges Fire/EMS Department.
·Cigarette starts fire at Kiel assisted living center
Nine people were evacuated Sunday from an assisted living center after a cigarette sparked a fire outside the building.The fire from a cigarette placed in a receptacle outside moved into the attic of Care Partners Assisted Living, 65 River View Road, around 7: 50 p.m, said Kiel Fire Chief Bob Hennings.
·Immediate Benefits to Stopping Smoking After Heart Attack New Israeli Study
Smoking affects your cardiac health both before and after a major event like a heart attack. But how much? And does cutting back instead of quitting have a positive effect as well?Rabbi Shlomo Riskin of Efrat, Israel may have recently requested that his whole city make smoking illegal, but the evidence for immediate effects of quitting has not existed in the Jewish State - until now.There are definitive answers in a ...
·Smoking increases cardiac health: Smoking cessation significantly increases cardiac health later in life, says a new study ...
Smoking cessation significantly increases cardiac health later in life, says a new study from Tel Aviv University.The research found that quitting smoking after a heart attack has about the same positive effect as other major interventions such as lipid-lowering agents like statins or more invasive procedures. Its really the most broad and eye-opening study of its kind. Smoking really decreases your life expectancy ...
·Employees calling it quits: Program helps snuff out smoking habit
At a time when smoking is frowned upon by many, the smoking break room at Evergreen Retirement Community, a sprawling retirement complex on North Westfield Street, is a bit of a dinosaur.Human Resources Manager Erin Sanders calls it the elephant in the room. It is there to accommodate the smokers among the nearly 300 employees at Evergreen.Come July 5, it will be gone; the doors to Evergreens smoking lounge will clo ...
·Cigarette Smoking is a Risk Factor for Alzheimers Disease: An Analysis Controlling for Tobacco Industry Affiliation Journal:...
To examine the relationship between smoking and Alzheimers disease (AD) after controlling for study design, quality, secular trend, and tobacco industry affiliation of the authors, electronic databases were searched; 43 individual studies met the inclusion criteria. For evidence of tobacco industry affiliation, http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu was searched. One fourth (11/43) of individual studies had tobacco-affiliat ...
·Study Shows Cigarette Smoking a Risk Factor for Alzheimers Disease
A UCSF analysis of published studies on the relationship between Alzheimers disease and smoking indicates that smoking cigarettes is a significant risk factor for the disease. After controlling for study design, quality of the journals, time of publication, and tobacco industry affiliation of the authors, the UCSF research team also found an association between tobacco industry affiliation and the conclusions of ind ...
·Lift cigarette prices to $20 a packet to help tackle health funding crisis: Quit
KEVIN Rudd is being urged to increase the price of cigarettes to $20 a packet and raise an extra $2 billion in taxes if he is serious about tackling a health funding crisis in Australia.The Prime Minister last night outlined the looming threat of an ageing population, warning that the rising cost of health would outstrip the states ability to raise taxes within two decades.Quit Victoria executive director Fiona Shar ...
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