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Marijuana and Tobacco : Discovering the new highs
Marijuana and tobacco are an explosive combination for the lungs.
It appears that regular tobacco smokers who also use marijuana run a
considerably increased risk of...
New Niger Delta plan to follow Canadian and South African models
The Nigerian Economic Summit Group (NESG) in collaboration with some International experts have concluded arrangements to adopt the South African and Canadian models in...
Food crisis: Rice prices peak
Rice prices went up 2.3% Wednesday, according to The Times. The increase in rice prices may have terrible effects on poor countries said the...
Food crisis : Developed nations must stop subsidies, poor ones must eat local
A principal researcher from Canada’s North-South Institute, Dr. John W. Foster, Tuesday urged governments from developed countries “to phase out agricultural subsidies” given to...
Bush defends NAFTA
President Bush from the United States and President Calderon from Mexico held a press conference at the North American summit in New Orleans. Bush...
Koïchiro Matsura expresses regret over Quebec’s historical landmark loss
The Director-General of UNESCO, Koïchiro Matsuura, Monday expressed his deep regrets at the destruction of Quebec's ancient drill hall, a landmark adjacent to the...
IMANI Center for Policy and Education Receives $100,000 Grant
The Atlas Economic Research Foundation announced that IMANI Center for Policy and Education (Accra, Ghana) is the only African think tank among its first...
Canada offers FCFA18b to support Mali public service reform
Canada has made FCFA18 billion (8 million Canadian dollars) available to Mali for the reform of the public service as part of the Institutional...
Iamgold forced to relinquish gold nuggets from Guyana
When one knows about the number of deaths and physical malformations caused by both the legal and non-legal exploitation of gold, the question...
Report: AfDB should be Africa’s premier development institution
Given the huge development challenges Africa faces, the continent, more than any other region, needs a premier continental development bank, an Independent High Level...