Dr. Amani Abou-Zeid is the current African Union (AU) commissioner for Energy and Infrastructure. She believes that cross-border approaches are critical for clean energy affordability. Credit: Aimable Twahirwa/IPS by Aimable Twahirwa (abu dhabi) Wednesday, April 17, 2024 Inter Press Service ABU DHABI, Apr 17 (IPS) – Investors, regulators, researchers, policymakers, and …
Read More »Israel Rejects Far-Right Plan for New Limits on Access to Important Mosque
The Israeli government has decided against putting new restrictions on access to an important mosque in Jerusalem during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, a move that may reduce tensions at a site that has long been a flashpoint for unrest. At a meeting on Tuesday night led by Prime …
Read More »Federal Judge Limits Biden Officials’ Contacts With Social Media Sites
A federal court in Louisiana on Tuesday barred parts of the Biden administration from communicating with social media platforms about broad swaths of content online, a ruling that could curtail efforts to combat false and misleading narratives about the coronavirus pandemic and other issues. In the ruling, Judge Terry A. …
Read More »Arizona Limits Construction Around Phoenix as Its Water Supply Dwindles
Arizona has determined that there is not enough groundwater for all of the housing construction that has already been approved in the Phoenix area, and will stop developers from building some new subdivisions, a sign of looming trouble in the West and other places where overuse, drought and climate change …
Read More »Carmakers Are Pushing Autonomous Tech. This Engineer Wants Limits.
Last fall, Missy Cummings sent a document to her colleagues at the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration that revealed a surprising trend: When people using advanced driver-assistance systems die or are injured in a car crash, they are more likely to have been speeding than people driving cars on their …
Read More »This Race Will Test the Limits of Democrats’ Red-State Survival Strategies
Craft will be competing against Cameron, a protégé of McConnell who has already secured Trump’s endorsement; Agricultural Commissioner Ryan Quarles, who has a large network of supporters across the state; and at least eight others so far. Craft was endorsed immediately by Representative James Comer of Kentucky, the incoming chairman …
Read More »U.S. Pours Money Into Chips, but Even Soaring Spending Has Limits
In September, the chip giant Intel gathered officials at a patch of land near Columbus, Ohio, where it pledged to invest at least $20 billion in two new factories to make semiconductors. A month later, Micron Technology celebrated a new manufacturing site near Syracuse, N.Y., where the chip company expected …
Read More »CBN increases weekly ATM withdrawal limits from ?100k to ?500K
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has announced an upward review of its cash withdrawal limits directive. The apex bank announced in a circular issued Wednesday, Dec. 21, that individuals can now withdraw N500,000 cash weekly and corporate entities can now withdraw up to N5 million cash across all …
Read More »Gov Masari says CBN cash withdrawal limits will help economy
While speaking to journalists after a meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari in his Daura hometown on Saturday, December 10, 2022, Masari argued that the new policy “will help the economy.” Replying to questions on why state governors have maintained silence since the policy was announced, the Katsina governor said only …
Read More »CBN meets Senate panel on weekly cash withdrawal limits
The CBN deputy governor made the explanation during her screening and her counterpart on Corporate Services, Edward Lametek Adamu, for re – appointments as deputy governors. She said the cashless policy, as fully implemented by CBN now, was not new as required steps were taken in 2012 with Lagos State …
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