Sentences with phrase «own national assets»

«I will not allow the national asset of an open Internet to become compromised,» Wheeler said Thursday.

Another Canadian company's recovery in the face of rejection is worthy of note here: After Ottawa blocked MDA's sale of its space division to a U.S. - based firm in 2008 because the feds deemed the business a strategic national asset, MDA did an about - face.

Such economies are left deeply in debt to foreigners, and must relinquish ownership of their own national assets and enterprise.

Its future growth will come from a spike in domestic consumption and from leveraging such national assets as the labor pool.

«Further, given the relatively higher cost of capital in Australia and the global competition for a seemingly scarce pool of quality national assets, IAG may struggle to compete in any case.»

As a result, the government took a number of initiatives to prevent similar problems, including the creation of the National Asset Management Agency (NAMA).

The move is sure to raise opposition in Italian political circles where Parmalat is viewed as a national asset and is the country's biggest listed food company.

That will only be done if the lessons of the past are learnt and policies are developed which keep the City as the great national asset it is while curbing the excesses unacceptable to society as a whole.

«I appeal to all of us in the south - south, we need to wake up, it is for our own self interest that we make the region the most investor friendly that even challenges that we face, the assets being destroyed is not just national assets, it is our own assets.

The building houses precious lives of staff of the Commission and sensitive national assets such as the largest database of Ghanaians currently in the country.

At no time between 2009 and 2016 has the NDC ever had to resort to the sale of a national asset just to be able to stay afloat

Incompetence is when a government mismanages the economy so badly that it is compelled to sell a precious national asset like Ghana Telecom just so as to survive.

External affairs director Marie - Claude Hemming said: «Not only must we undertake urgent repairs to local roads, but the scale of the challenge is such that the Government must rethink how repairs and maintenance of this national asset are funded.

They've cut taxes for the privileged few sold off our national assets to them, always on the cheap and turned a blind eye to their chronic tax avoidance.

«It is pertinent to state that it is the same group of people that are wreaking havoc on the critical national assets that are blackmailing the Armed Forces and other security agencies to divert attention.

«We would take the unprecedented step to renationalise all our natural resources and national assets.

George Osborne has taken an early swipe at departmental budgets, announcing # 4.5 bn of savings this year through a sell - off of national assets — including the remaining stake in Royal Mail — and spending cuts.

On allegation by another ex-militant leader, Africanus Ukparasia, alias «General» Africa that he bombed pipelines, Tompolo said he alerted the public that some aggrieved All Progressives Congress, APC, members in Bayesla and Delta States wanted to destroy national assets in the Niger Delta and finger him because of the outcome of the Bayelsa State governorship election.

Government, as the owner of these assets, should work with PURC to develop a clear policy on how to manage these national assets and the return they generate.

The assets of the state - owned utility companies are national assets, which generate economic returns from the pass - through costs paid by end users.

We believe that it is a huge national asset, easily the largest database of Nigerians in existence today containing over 70 million entries of names, addresses, photographs, ten fingerprints, telephone numbers etc..

He therefore implored all Nigerians to see the value of this national asset and work with the Commission to continue to improve it saying, «we can continue to work together with stakeholders and indeed all citizens to ensure that all ineligible registrants and entries are removed from the register and that eligible voters who have not registered take advantage of the ongoing CVR.»

I implore all Nigerians to see the value of this national asset and work with the Commission to continue to improve it.

The Minister of Information, Lai Mohammed on Wednesday said that Nigeria has not taken any decision to sell off national assets as a result of economic recession.

The lawmaker added that both bodies also warned the Federal Government against the proposed sale of national assets, especially the NLNG.

«It will also encourage wealthy Nigerians who can afford to buy and therefore rooting for the sale of national assets, to invest in the economy or to set up their own LNG projects, considering the huge reserves of natural gas in the country,» he said.

«The Minister of Budget and National Planning, Udoma Udo Udoma, had stated that one of the ways to fund the economy was through the sale of some national assets and the proceeds reinvested in the economy for infrastructural development.

Under the unbundling plan, the NNPC will be broken into two commercial entities limited by shares and to be known as the National Petroleum Company and the National Assets Management Company.

Yashushi Watanabe and David McConnell, eds, Soft Power Superpowers: Cultural and National Assets of Japan and the United States, London, M E Sharpe, 2008.

Historically speaking, selling of our national assets has not brought any of our desires to fulfilment.

It is not only inappropriate to support the idea to sell our national assets but it is very illegal and it is against the salient provisions of our constitution.

«Instead of selling off this national asset we'd like to see the service invested in and modernised to ensure it is responsive to people's needs in the 21st century and remains a universal service that is publicly owned,» a statement on Compass» website said.

It is my humble view and submission that Nigeria will still and shall still come out stronger and better of this current economic recession without necessarily opting for a cheap idea of selling our national assets but by urgently taking a drastic and sincere step on some of our untapped resources that are readily available at our disposal.

A statement signed by the party's Tertiary Educational Institutions Network (TEIN) of the University of Professional Studies, said «it has observed with deep concern, the indiscriminate painting of national assets in the capital by the New Patriotic Party.

Another reason we should jettison the idea of selling our national assets is that they will be undervalued by any buyer during this economic recession.

«Britain's airports are a strategic national asset and therefore can not simply be treated like any other private company.»

It holds a monopoly over Britain's rail infrastructure, a major national asset, and as such is rigorously monitored to ensure accountability to the public interest.

The group said selling strategic and viable national assets to take the economy out of recession is inappropriate.

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President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday said all mismanaged and misappropriated national assets recovered would be sold off.

He urged the court to declare the plan to sell the national assets as wrongful and illegal, being a violation of the provision of the Public Enterprises (Privatisation and Commercial) Act 1999.

The lawyer said in his suit that Buhari planned to sell national assets such as the Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas Ltd, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, the Port Harcourt Refining Group Ltd, the Kaduna Refining Group Ltd, the Warri Refining and Petrochemical Ltd, the Africa Finance Corporation, the East West Rail Lines and the West African Gas Pipelines.

The plaintiff claimed that if Buhari was allowed to sell the national assets, the nation would be plunged into deeper economic and political woes.

A national asset sold at a knock down price to make a profit for the few.»

Many other countries seem to think so, and are now moving away from privatising national assets in favour of public ownership.

Many other countries are moving away from privatising national assets in favour of public ownership.

While the party's manifesto had assured of a social democratic vision, Aso Villa pushed a neoliberal agenda, and the sale of national assets to cronies in a controversial, often dubious, privatisation process.

«We have seen workers sacrifice and work at the highest international standards and not only have these combine efforts brought back the crippled national asset from the brink but have also restored national fuel security.

The CWU - previously led by Alan Johnson, so hardly a hotbed of Hard Leftism - should stop wasting its money on New Labour and start funding individual candidates, regardless of party (if any), who do in fact support public services, strong unions, rural communities, national sovereignty (both as against the EU and as against the foreign acquisition of a key national asset), and the monarchy's direct link to every address in the count.

«We have directed our troops to be on red alert as well as ensure that criminals and vandals who sabotage the national assets are brought to book,» he said.