Uganda: Construction Workers Luring Bugiri Women, Says Official - Married women in Bugiri district are abandoning their husbands for road construction workers, who lure them into sex by offering them money, an official has said. The district gender officer, Edith Batengaya, said 35 men had approached her over the past three months saying they had lost their wives to workers of Reynold Construction Company. [AA Construction]

Mozambique: Cahora Bassa Not Under Threat - Despite lurid headlines in the Mozambican press about a foreign plot to destroy the Cahora Bassa dam, in reality the dam is working normally, and its management knows nothing about the alleged plot. [AA Construction]

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Muxanga was reacting to a press conference given on Tuesday by the spokesman of the national police command, Pedro Cossa, who claimed that the police had arrested four foreigners who had been dumping an unspecified substance in the Cahora Bassa lake in an attempt to sabotage the dam. The four were a German military architect, a Portuguese hotelier, a Botswanan aircraft pilot, and a South African whom (so the police claim) calls himself a prophet.

The objective, according to Cossa, was to corrode the concrete and steel structure of the dam. He said the four had dropped 170 units of the mysterious corrosive substance in the lake and were in possession of a further 500 kilos.

Uganda: Engineer, Contractor Held Over Nakivubo Trench - AN engineer and private contractor were on Monday arrested for digging a trench in the Nakivubo Market Place Road, which the Police said had caused jam in the area. [AA Construction]

Nigeria: Nigeria 2009 - Kano, Another 8th Wonder of the World - LOC - The pace at which the rehabilitation of facilities expected to be used for the hosting of the forthcoming Under-17 World Youth Soccer Championship has been described as the Eight Wonder of The World by the leaders of the delegation of the event's Local Organizing Committee (LOC) in Abuja who were in Kano on inspection visit. [AA Urbanisation]

Nigeria: Akunyili Pledges to Reactivate Country's Website - The Minister of Information and Communications, Professor Dora Akunyili, has pledged to reactivate the Nigeria's website: www.nigeria.gov.ng. She made the pledge at a meeting with heads of parastatals and directors in the ministry in Abuja. [AA Urbanisation]

Nigeria: Illegal Demolition - Court Orders Arrest of Ex-Air Force Chief - An Abuja Magistrate's Court has issued a bench warrant for the arrest of a former, Chief of Air Staff, AVM Ibrahim Alfa as a result of his refusal to appear in court and face trial over allegations bordering on illegal demolition of a petrol filling station belonging to one Kamisu Ahmed. [AA Urbanisation]

Nigeria: Missing Design, Drawings Stall Repair of Niger Bridge - Transportation Minister, Diezani Allison-Madueke, on Tuesday disclosed how the loss of designs, drawings and maintenance records stalled repairs of the Niger Bridge for which N2.4 billion was approved. [AA Construction]