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  • Facebook Stocks to Sell On Open Market

    Today Facebook is reported to be filing papers to sell its stock on the open market. The paperwork is to be turned in to the Securities and Exchange Commission today.

    This means investors may soon be able to own a small slice of the world’s largest online social network.

    Several reports said Facebook is expected to file documents with regulators for a $5 billion IPO or Initial Public Offering of stock.

    Facebook makes most of its money through advertising because it’s a privately held company and has not had to release its financial investments.

    That means there is no telling exactly how much its stock will be worth on the open market.

    The pre-IPO price for Facebook based on private trading markets is somewhere in the $80 billion to $100 billion range.

    Facebook will not have to open up about its finances until it actually starts trading. That usually does not happen until months after a company’s first IPO filing.

    There are over 153 million Facebook subscribers in the United States, 43.5million subscribers in India the largest outside USA and over 200,000 subscribers in Iceland.

  • Rwandans Commemorate National Heroes

    President Paul Kagame and top government officials including RDF officers, families of fallen heroes and other distinguished quests have today joined Rwandans in commemorate the country’s heroes.
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    The event was held at Heroes cemetery at Remera today February 1 to celebrated 18th heroes day under the theme; let’s strive for heroism by fighting violence against children.

    While at the cemetery the government officials humbled themselves to honor the fallen heroes. Families of heroes brought flowers to mourn and remember their relatives.

    Commemoration of the Heroes day continues at the village levels throughout the country.

  • Rusumo Power Project Leaves Area Residents Confused

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    Residents of Ngoma and Kirehe districts have expressed concern over lack of proper information on their resettlement to pave way for the construction of a hydropower project at Rusumo falls.

    They argue that there is need for a good layout of detailed information on resettlement and compensation action plan.

    Their concern to the government and all parties involved in the project is to what extent are the measures being put in place to mitigate the huge loss of properties.

    The concerns were raised during an open discussion by the Nile Media Initiative members in Rwanda with the residents and their leaders in the two districts of Ngoma and Kirehe.

    Francis Bushayija the Executive Secretary Murama Sector noted, “Recently over 1000 hectares of land covered by maize were drowned due to flooding caused by heavy rains but residents say that the project started and we did not inform them on the operation yet I myself have non of the details going on.”

    “Our people depend on farming and we want to know about results of the studies that were conducted and how and it will be helpful to them,” he added.

    There is a strong commitment among the basin Governments towards addressing the regional energy crisis implying the need to expand electricity access, and supporting development to break out of downward spiral of land degradation, unsustainable use of water, low access to public infrastructure and services.

    The constraints have been bitter to private sector development, so the provision of electricity will be the key in advocating for economic and social development in the region.

    The impact of this project to the people around the project area would be to develop renewable hydroelectric power as part of a broader program to support sustainable management of the Kagera river basin and promote growth and poverty reduction.

    Rwanda’s only Kirehe district has 950 hectares identified downstream and 500 hectares along the project area.
    Concerning reinitialization and intensification Rwanda has 935 Crop Area to Terrace, 500 Crop Area of irrigation and 1,535 Households to be relocated.

    Major economic activities in the project area are small scale agriculture, livestock keeping, trading at urban centers and formal employment in the civil service, refugee agencies and development agencies.

    Despite the constraints on eviction and poor communication, the drafted study show the project; over 4000 direct jobs are expected to be created as a key economic benefits during the construction phase, while there will be 50 to 60 permanent jobs for operation and maintenance of the dam and associated facilities.

    The Rwanda Nile Basin Discourse Forum (NBDF) has been tireless in making sure that
    stakeholders’ participation of all levels is done.

    “As we reach the objective of the project, the whole community will benefit and that’s why you (villagers) have not to be left out it or be affected in any way,” Jean Batiste Habiyaremye the chairman of NBDF-Rwanda challenged affected people.

    Concerning project knowledge, community awareness and knowledge about the project varies from ward to another and from village to village.

    Local leaders should be more informed on whatever action taking place to help them inform their ordinary villagers.

    As well the communities should be involved in the evaluation and compensation planning, know the policies, or the regulations relating to resettlement procedures.

    There is also a need for information desk or institution in place where affected people can seek for clarifications or report their grievances.

    Standing at 90 megawatts, each state member will have 30 megawatts that will be connected to the national grid.

    The power generation infrastructure will be located at Rusumo Falls on the border between Tanzania and Rwanda, shared between Burundi, Rwanda and Tanzania.

    Transmissions lines will extend from the power generation plant to Gitega (Burundi), Kigali (Rwanda) and Nyakanazi (Tanzania)

  • Two Arrested for Killing Baby

    Police in Rwamagana district have arrested a man and his wife for strangling to death their one year old boy child identified as Irakoze and throwing his body in a swamp.
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    Sources to the police say Christine Mutuyimana strangled her son after it emerged that her marriage to Nshimiyimana Ngarambe stood no chance.

    Ngarambe did not father the child. The two had agreed to take Irakoze to live with Mutuyimana’s parents in Gicumbi after realizing that the kid did not get enough support from the mother and step father.

    However, her parents refused to take in the child explaining that they had no means to take care of Irakoze.

    On their way back from Gicumbi, the two decided to kill the child and do away with the body before returning back home Gishari sector, Rwamagana district.

    Upon arrival neighbours asked them the whereabouts of Irakoze and were told that he had remained with his grandparents. However, they did not settle for an easy answer and continued pressurizing the couple.

    Unsatisfied, residents called Police and the two later conceded that they had killed Irakoze and threw him in the swamp.
    With Police in tow, the couple retrieved the dead body which was taken to Rwamagana mortuary while the culprits are detained at Kigabiro Police Station.

    Police spokesperson, Supt.Theos Badege termed the crime as horrendous and unacceptable in the Rwandan society.
    “It is unfathomable how a parent can decide to kill her own child. It is a shame to our societal values,” Badege said.

    The criminals will be charged with premeditated murder according to article 312 of Rwandan penal cord which carries a life sentence.

  • MINISANTE Says Doses Of Penicillin Antibiotic Cannot Kill

    The Ministry of Health (MINISANTE) has rejected claims that an overdose of peniciline could have resulted in the death of a patient after a nurse allegedly administered into the patient three injections of the antibiotic.
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    The ministry was reacting to a recent story circulated in different media outlets alleging that a nurse identified as Desiré Ngirabacu served Alphonse Muhigana with 3 injections of penicillin antibiotic which caused his death.

    The then Rusizi based nurse is currently on run and relevant authorities are persuing her.

    “Based on a recent story published on this website titled‘Nurse Disappears After Killing Patient’, the Ministry of Health would like to explain that the body of the deceased (Alphonse Muhigana) was indeed found at Gira Ubuzima dispensary last week and taken to Nyanza hospital for autopsy,” the statement reads in parts.

    “The Ministry of Health would like to clarify that these doses of penicillin antibiotic cannot kill a person except in particular circumstances where the patient is allergic or if the nurse used a wrong way to inject the said patient,” the statement adds.

    The statement also explains that Gira Ubuzima dispensary had been closed by the Ministry of Health and the Police, months before the incident occurred for failure to meet required health standards.

    Police is said to have taken the body to Nyanza hospital and requested the doctor on duty, Dr. Sylvain Kapinga Musangu for an autopsy of the deceased.

    The statement has indicated that the said skilled general practitioner is not qualified to perform such post-mortem examination but instead went ahead to perform it.

    “By doing so he drew uncertain conclusions and misled the entire health sector and police authorities,” it reads in parts.

    “This is improper medical practice because such cases are handled at hospitals such as the Kacyiru Police Hospital,” that statement continues.

    According to the statement, the ministry of health has suspended doctor Kapinga Musangu for scientific malpractices agreeing to perform an autopsy that he is not qualified to do which they say resulted into providing a wrong report.

    The Ministry of health has warned all health professionals saying that there is a zero tolerance for all acts, care and oral or written report that are not based on good practices and scientific evidence.

    “Thanks to technology there is no excuse today for not having evidence based results,” the statement read parts.

    Investigations however to ascertain why it was later opened without authorization from the Health Ministry has been launched.

    “As investigations continue, we would like to assure the entire population that the health sector is committed to providing quality health care to all citizens and evidence based results in health related investigative cases.”

    ENDS

  • Express Buses to Eastern Province Not Punctual

    Express buses plying the Eastern Rwanda route are a sad nightmare. They reportedly don’t observe time, overspeed and abuse their Purpose of operating as Express transport vehicles. They have left many passengers disgraced due to poor service deliverd.
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    Ignace Habimana, a frequent traveller to the eastern Route says that express transport buses on this route are not punctual and they make many stop over’s soliciting for unticketed passengers.

    Habimana says, “they have no specific program although they claim that they are punctual. They depart late and stop anywhere along the journey soliciting for more passengers just like the traditional minibuses.

    Due to such irregularities in their service, time is wasted and mismanaged, “Actually, one spends more than two hours from Kigali to Kibungo due to such bad service. Express buses on this route have resorted to swapping passengers with regular commuter taxis,” says Habimana.

    Another regular traveler aboard Express buses Francois Habimana notes that Express transport companies continuously issue tickets to passengers more than the seats available on the bus.

    This leads to every ticketed passenger to compete for seats in the bus resulting into overcrowding beyond the Bus seater limit. Sometimes passengers are forced to travel on a different bus departing at a different time as opposed to time on the ticket they request thus very inconveniencing.

    He adds that “sometimes, they change the time of departure and give you a next car or miss it while you have a ticket.”

    Eulade Bayingana, the owner of Matunda Express, says, “we do not go beyond the expected time but the traffic jam we meet from Nyabugogo to Giporoso especially in the morning and evening hours is the main cause of delay.”

    He adds that due to the shortage of passengers going to Eastern province route, there are many stops that drivers make to pick passengers. “If drivers stop to take unexpected passengers, it is their fault,” said Bayingana.

    Major Express transport companies that serve the Eastern Province route include; Belvedere Lines, Stella Express, SOTRA Express, Matunda Express, International and Excel Express.

  • Man Collapses on Wedding Day

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    Last Saturday shocking truth emerged just like in TV soap drama when a young gentleman realised that the lady he was about to say I do to in a church wedding can only be described as actually a liar, gold digger and a fraud. The gentleman is currently hospitalised.

    The gentleman, who requested to be identified as only Ruhindo and his last name to remain anonymous, is in the prime of his age. He has had it all; a car, house, good job, the cash and all the love to give, but sadly Ruhindo ended up as the victim of gold digging.

    Ruhindo works as a driver for a certain ambassador in Kigali. He has for the past one Year been happily engaged to a fraudulent lady until the eve of the wedding day when he discovered that everything he knew or thought he had known about the fiancé were bitter secretive lies.

    The young lady, whose name is being withheld, was a student at national University of Rwanda. The lady and her boyfriend had been dating for over a year.

    Ruhindo had helped pay half of the fiancés university tuition fees. He didn’t know that the young lady was actually spending the money elsewhere. Ruhindo was working in Kigali and his fiancé was mostly at the university. She unforgivably squandered not only Ruhindo’s money but also his good intentions.

    Ruhindo had no doubts about his future wife. He would gladly take her wherever she wished to go. He would later after having fun with his fiancé, drop her off to a home near the National Police headquarters at Kacyiru where she claimed her relatives lived.

    However, this eventually turned out to be a house belonging to Rhindo’s friend.

    Before the bitter truth emerged, Ruhindo was confronted by one of the gentleman claiming to have been a boufriend to the lady. He also found out that she was a liar and a cheat and felt it was the right thing to do to tell Ruhindo about the woman he was about to marry.

    Ruhindo had refused to believe the scandalous allegations against the fiancé. He insisted that the second boyfriend proves his allegations against the lady.

    The second gentleman not only told Ruhindo the time and place in Kayciru where Ruhindo would drop off his finance, the number plate of Ruhindo’s car, telling him she had also lied to him that the car Ruhindo drove was her father’s car.

    After the truth had finally set in, Ruhindo began piecing everything together. He questioned why he was never invited inside the house that was supposed to be her relatives. Why she would never show him any signs of public affection claiming shyness, and most importantly why she never allowed him to meet her friends or visit her in other places except her parents house.

    Sadly the truth was revealed a little too late, for the groom and the bride were to be wedded the next day, when Ruhindo failed to get his fiancé to talk about it before the wedding. He was forced to confront her on the morning of the wedding.

    After confronting her, he was expecting to find a devastated and apologetic woman. However, this wasn’t what he saw, before him was a woman who gave several excuses for her undue behaviour by telling him that she was seeing other people because she had to be sure of what she wanted. She never asked for forgiveness.

    Without blinking an eye lid, she told Ruhindo that if he wasn’t interested in marrying her then he should be the one to tell her family. The family of the young lady that got on well with Ruhindo have claimed innocence in their daughter’s actions and sympathised with Ruhindo.

    They swore they have no knowledge of their daughter’s whereabouts that had disappeared soon after the incident.

    Finally what had started as a happy tale of a young man who had everything a woman would crave for until the most important thing of all was taken from him. Trust!

    Ruhindo is currently in comma at a hospital surrounded by the family of the woman.

  • Rwandan Orphans Expecting New Zealand Substitute Mother

    A New Zealand woman, Vhari Campbell will arrive in Rwanda to act as a substitute mother to orphans and help them with their homework, feeding the smaller ones, cooking and cleaning.

    Vhari will be in Rwanda by September 30 ready to start work on October 1 and she will be around for the whole of October.

    A mother of two, Vhari will spend a month in a children’s orphanage in Rwanda, in a placement arranged by the Global Volunteer Network.

    The network is a New Zealand-based company and will place Vhari with a Christian-based project.

    Vhari says,“This is something I have wanted to do for a long time.”

    “I knew Africa was where I wanted to go, so when I came across this company it was exactly what I was looking for. I don’t know where I will be going, but I have already been reading books about Rwanda.”

    To help raise the money she needs, Vhari is going on a marathon sponsored cycle on June 9 and 10. She will be accompanied by two friends, Morna Wilson-Smith and Laura Morley who will also be sponsored.

    The cyclists will cover 112 miles over the two days. They will leave Fettercairn and go over the Cairn o’ Mount to Banchory, then on to Ballater and Braemar.

    After an overnight stay in Braemar, the three will go on through Spittal of Glenshee to Kirriemuir, then on to Edzell before returning to Fettercairn.
    Vhari (44) works in the Fettercairn Hotel, the Ramsay Arms.

    The Ramsay will be the venue for a traditional music night on Friday, February 17, when donations will be accepted towards her trip and the Rwandan project.

    Vhari is mum to Mary (15) and Chrissie (12) who both attend Mearns Academy.

  • NUR Unveils Euros 3.6 Million Laboratory

    The National University of Rwanda (NUR) is to officially open a newly built laboratory worth Euros 3.6 Million.

    Dr. Desire Ndushabandi, the vice rector in charge of finance said that the building has a meeting room with seating capacity of 1000 units. The building is valued at Euros 2.1million and materials cost Euros1,5 Million.

    Dr. Ndushabandi said the building will help the university to achieve its goals of being unequalled in education and serving people as highlighted by the institution’s motto; “Excellence in Education and Service to the People.”

    He said, “It will facilitate lectures in conducting research in various domains such as water analysis, plants fertilization and many others important to the population.”

    The laboratory will also help students in their research in Biology and Chemistry fields which are necessary in daily human life.

    He indicated that the laboratory is also likely to be used by people whom the university used to send outside the country in pursuit of PHD programs due to absence of some vital facilities and materials required in such programs.

    The laboratory was funded by Belgian Technical Cooperation (BTC).

  • New FERWAFA President Meets FIFA Boss

    The new President of the Rwandan Football Association (FERWAFA) Celestin Ntagungira met the FIFA President Joseph Blatter on Monday and the two discussed the state of the game in the African country.

    “We spoke about what FIFA has done for Rwanda through the Goal projects, artificial pitches, new offices and the training academy,” Ntagungira said.

    He added, “We also discussed new projects, such as the possibility of building a sports complex where the national teams can train.”

    According to the reports, Ntagungira’s main concern is youth football, however, as he explained in setting out his objectives: “We want to promote the youth game throughout the country, the aim being to spot players and organize competitions for youngsters.”

    Acknowledging that there is much work to be done across all areas of Rwandan football, the nation’s new football chief had this to say: “I also want to work on the Association’s statutes, look at how the clubs are run, and set up a range of training programs for coaches, referees and women’s football.
    We also need sponsors, which is another area we have to focus on, not to mention media coverage of our game.”

    Returning to the core theme of youth football, Ntagungira pointed to Rwanda’s qualification for the FIFA U-17 World Cup Mexico 2011 as an example of what can be achieved: “It was a huge success for the country.

    The backbone of that team came out of the academy set up by FIFA, and four or five of them have now broken into the national side. That’s why we are so appreciative of FIFA, and we want to continue in that direction.

    “Using the development of youth football as a platform, we want to set up regional leagues, which didn’t exist before,” said Ntagungira.

    “At this moment in time, football’s played mainly in the towns and cities, but we want to take it to every corner of the country. Our goal is to have as many people playing the game as possible and to help our national teams develop.”