Sentences with phrase «former head of the nation»
In a new book and an interview, the former head of the nation's largest school system confronts teacher performance.
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As the world's biggest trading nation, China already sends huge volumes of goods to countries such as Canada, providing «numerous ways to disguise your drugs,» says John Coyne, a former Australian Federal Police intelligence agent who is now head of border security at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute.
According to multiple sources and documents obtained by SB Nation, Lewis told the COI that he was informed by former Mississippi State head coach Dan Mullen in April of 2016 that he would be interviewed by NCAA enforcement.
In a Facebook post Friday, December 29, 2017, captured by Ghanapoliticsonline.com ahead of the official declaration, the former Ghanaian leader who also headed the ECOWAS Observer Mission to the county, stated that Liberians have made themselves and the ECOWAS region proud and with the election fever now over, every Liberian should see the task of nation - building and development as a collective patriotic responsibility.
The former head of Interpol says the EU's internal borders policy is «like hanging a sign welcoming terrorists to Europe» and Scandinavian nations which once prided themselves on their openness are now turning in on themselves.
The nation's seven living former heads of government include Gen. Yakubu Gowon (retd.)
The President Muhammadu Buhari led APC federal government will spend N400m on the purchase of vehicles for the nation's former heads of government and their deputies in 2017.
Former Gov. George Pataki, who is flirting yet again with a White House run, is headed to the first - in - the - nation primary state of New Hampshire later this month.
«The Acting President also extols the readiness of the former Head of State in accepting to serve as United Nations and African Union's envoy promoting peace and good governance in Africa.
Former Head of State, Gen. Yakubu Gowon, said on Wednesday, that Nigeria must take some steps to plan beyond oil so as to reposition the nation's...
A former National Coordinator of the National Disaster Management Organisation and an officer of the Ghana Armed Forces, Major General Francis Vib - Sanziri has been appointed as the Head of Mission and Force Commander of the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF).
A former Nigerian Head of State, Gen. Yakubu Gowon (retd), has described prayer as a formidable weapon that can solve the nation's many challenges better and...
A former Head of State, Gen. Yakubu Gowon (retd), on Saturday reflected on the state of the nation and came with a verdict that Nigeria is...
The 17 - member commission, chaired by Kleiner and Klaus Toepfer, former head of the United Nations Environment Programme, gave Merkel their report (in German here) yesterday.
A new education management company, led by the former head of a global electric company, has acquired Chancellor Beacon Academies, the nation's second - largest for - profit manager of charter schools.
José Manuel Ramos - Horta, the United Nations» Special Representative and Head of the United Nations Integrated Peacebuilding Office in Guinea - Bissau (UNIOGBIS), is former President of East Timor.
The task force, chaired by Joel Klein, former head of New York City public schools, and Condoleezza Rice, former U.S. secretary of state, cites mediocre U.S. showings on international assessments; high dropout rates, particularly among black and Hispanic students; poor civics performance; limited study of foreign languages; and lack of college preparedness as evidence that the nation's security is at risk.
Perhaps in response to Illinois having been named the third most corrupt state in the nation, and maybe also just having watched former governor Blagojevich head off to prison for 14 years, our state legislators have begun acting uncannily as though they are listening to us instead of the power elite.
This all echoes an early post here in which I interviewed Joseph Chamie, the former head of the United Nations population office, who described an extraordinarily variegated world of imploding and exploding populations, and inevitable rivers of migration and sources of conflict.
«The industry is poised on a knife - edge of public acceptance that could affect its license to operate for years to come,» says Timothy Wirth, a former Democratic senator from Colorado who heads up the nonprofit United Nations Foundation, which is trying to ensure a safer and cleaner global climate.
Spearheaded by Bank of England Governor Mark Carney (also the head of the FSB) and the former New York mayor and United Nations special envoy on climate change, Michael Bloomberg, the TCFD recommends that companies across all sectors describe the potential impacts of global warming in line with a 2 degrees Celsius
Spearheaded by Bank of England Governor Mark Carney (also the head of the FSB) and the former New York mayor and United Nations special envoy on climate change, Michael Bloomberg, the TCFD recommends that companies across all sectors describe the potential impacts of global warming in line with a 2 degrees Celsius scenario on their business, strategy and financial planning.
He also recently worked with Ishkonigan, an indigenous affairs consulting firm headed by former Assembly of First Nations national chief Phil Fontaine, before striking out on his own in 2016.
In her former role as founding legal head of EBS, the nation's largest building society, Dooley established its full - service team from scratch.
Planned Parenthood congratulates former Chilean President Michelle Bachelet on her new role as head of the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women, better known as UN Women, and applauds UN Secretary - General Ban Ki - moon on this appointment.
Les is a former head of the Qld Department of Aboriginal and Islander Affairs and is currently Chairperson of the Foundation for Aboriginal and Islander Research Action (FAIRA) and in that role he is a delegate to United Nations forums on Indigenous issues.