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AllAfrica.com: Federal Government Proposes N2.5 Tirllion Budget for 2010
Lagos :: Nigeria | about 1 month ago
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Federal Government Proposes N2.5 Tirllion Budget for 2010 9 October 2009 Federal Government is proposing a budget of N2.5 trillion or $20 billion for the 2010 fiscal year as it tries to map out strategies for funding the realisation of improved power...
Tags: federal government
Treasury pressured to justify stimulus spending
Sydney :: Australia | about 1 month ago
Credibility A Senate inquiry into the Government's $42 billion economic stimulus package will today hear from the head of Treasury, Ken Henry. The Greens Leader, Bob Brown, says the Treasury secretary will need to justify the continued roll out of the package given...
Tags: Dr Henry, Senate Economics, Treasury, Ken Henry, federal government, unemployment rate, stimulus spending
Avenging anguished Ashley Smith
Toronto :: Canada | about 1 month ago
Credibility Ashley Smith committed suicide less than two months after being transferred to a Kitchener prison in August 2007. The lawsuit alleges federal corrections staff – from senior bureaucrats to prison guards – engaged in a "conspiracy" that endangered Smith's...
Human rights act 'a triumph for elitists'
Sydney :: Australia | about 1 month ago
Credibility The Coalition says that if implemented, the recommendations would politicise the judiciary and be a triumph for an elitist group of academics, lawyers and social activists. Supporters of a human rights act say that argument simply does not add up, given...
Tags: rights act, rights consultations, Australia, federal government, consultations report, consultations committee
Broadcasters settle fee gripe with Ottawa
Ottawa :: Canada | about 1 month ago
Credibility Canadian broadcasters and the federal government reach a preliminary agreement that will cap certain licence fees at $100 million a year in total, ending an eight-year-old dispute. Markets for resale housing have rebounded sharply in nine Canadian cities,...
Tags: federal government
Continued importance of Canada-Africa
Ottawa :: Canada | about 1 month ago
Credibility One of the co-chairs was former Liberal foreign affairs heavyweight Lloyd Axworthy. The list of currently serving Canadian parliamentarians scheduled to address the participants, however, was slight, with only Liberals Keith Martin and Mauril Belanger...
Tags: Suaad Hagi Mohamud, Canada-Africa, Kenya, liberal mp, federal government, Ottawa, Liberal party, Suaad Mohamud, government apology, Below Mohamud, Canada
UC leaders propose state-federal "hybrid"
Berkeley :: CA :: USA | about 1 month ago
Credibility The federal government should step in to save chronically underfunded public universities, University of California leaders say. UC Berkeley Chancellor Robert Birgeneau has proposed that top public research schools become state-federal "hybrids" that...
Tags: UC Berkeley, federal government
Supreme Court declines to hear royalties case involving Texas-based oil company
Washington :: DC :: USA | about 1 month ago
Credibility A Texas-based oil company won its bid Monday to hang onto about $350 million — part of billions in Gulf oil royalty payments the federal government will lose — as the U.S...The federal government stands to lose around $19 billion as a result of the case,...
Tags: Interior Department, federal government, U.S
Federal Agencies to Be Required to Measure, Set Goals on Emissions
Washington :: DC :: USA | about 1 month ago
Credibility Each agency must report its 2020 emission targets to the Council on Environmental Quality within 90 days. Administration officials said they could not estimate the federal government's carbon footprint, since they've never measured it before, but it ranks...
Tags: Barack Obama, federal agency, federal government, obama orders, gas emissions, greenhouse gas, president barack
Weather: Another cool day, but warmer Saturday
Salt Lake City :: UT :: USA | 2 months ago
Credibility In southern Utah, the high reading Friday was pegged at 77 degrees, and Saturday was forecast for the low-80s for Utah's Dixie. Sunday will see the return of mid-50s to Salt Lake City, along with a chance of rain and, in the upper elevations, snow.
Tags: federal government, Utah, Dayton, Salt Lake City
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