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Ikpeazu signs water bill into law
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Governor Okezie Ikpeazu
Governor Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia Tuesday signed the Abia State Water Bill into law to facilitate the state government’s efforts in providing affordable potable water to all households in the state.
Speaking during the ceremony at the Government House, Umuahia, Ikpeazu described water as a very critical element that played an important role in improving the socioeconomic status of citizens.
The governor said that the law would provide a legal framework that would guide the actions and mandate the state government to provide affordable potable water for households in Abia.
Lice Movono, RNZ Pacific correspondent in Suva
Four more new cases of Covid-19 have been confirmed in Fiji, one of them sending Fijian health authorities on a massive manhunt.
The Central Division including the capital Suva is in lockdown effective today for the next 14 days.
A restricted movement order issued on the main island of Viti Levu on Saturday ended this morning.
Taraivini Kabuta, Nadi Branch Red Cross volunteer shares a message about COVID-19 transmissions through a window to a family in Uciwai Settlement, Nadi.
Photo: Fiji Red Cross
Authorities have also since separated Nadi and Lautoka which have been in lockdown since a week when it was discovered a soldier had contracted the virus and infected a hotel maid in a breach of protocol.
Condolences on the passing of Senator the Honourable Franklin Khan
The Ministry of Energy and Energy Industries (MEEI) wishes to inform the media, the energy industry and the general public of the passing of Senator the Honourable Franklin Khan, Minister of Energy and Energy Industries on Saturday 17
th April, 2021.
Senator Franklin Khan was a Petroleum Geologist by profession, having spent twenty years in the energy sector both locally and abroad in a wide range of positions both at the technical and managerial levels.
Senator Khan held a BSc Degree in Geology and Geography (1980) from the UWI (Mona) Jamaica, and an MBA (2007) from the Arthur Lok Jack Graduate School of Business, UWI (Trinidad).
Some govnet websites are down including the COVID-19 vaccination registration site
digitalFIJI yet to respond
digitalFIJI yet to respond
Some Fijian govnet websites are down including the COVID-19 vaccination registration site.
digitalFIJI is yet to make a statement on the reason why the websites cannot be accessed since the weekend.
Fijivillage has also received confirmation that education.gov.fj, justice.gov.fj, employment.gov.fj agriculture.gov.fj, employeeportal.gov.fj and itc.gov.fj are also down.
We are also receiving information that the govnet emails have also gone down.
Questions have been sent to Acting Permanent Secretary for Communications and Director-General Digital Government Transformation, Cybersecurity and Communications, Tupou’tuah Baravilala. We are yet to get a response.
Operation Haven was model for new-look expeditionary armed forces, says former Royal Marines chief
In 38 days more humanitarian relief was provided to the Kurds facing reprisals from Saddam Hussein than in the whole of the Berlin airlift
10 April 2021 • 6:42pm
A Royal Marine pictured with Kurdish children during Operation Haven, Northern Iraq, 1991.
Credit: PH3 James R. Klein
Britain’s new look army should reduce the number of people joining terrorist groups as a result of our actions, a former head of the Royal Marines has said.
The success of Operation Haven - launched 30 years ago this week - is a model for the new expeditionary focus of Britain’s armed forces, says former General Andy Salmon.