The word 'leakages' is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use it to refer to a situation where a liquid or gas escapes or seeps out of a container or a pipe. For example, "We're having problems with leakages in the pipe leading to the sink."
It is not the first time there has been scrutiny of the NNPC, part of a rotten oil industry whose leakages undermine Nigeria's macroeconomic stability.
And in a country where the oil industry accounts for almost 80% of government revenue, the sort of leakages alleged by Mr Sanusi undermine the maintenance of foreign-exchange reserves and fiscal buffers.The damage to Nigeria's reputation for economic management cannot rapidly be undone.
Although they may be convinced by the cost advantages and convenience of moving their systems into the ever-cheaper cloud, they will have to persuade both their regulators and the insurers which cover them against any data leakages or system breakdowns.Cloud geeks, legacy geeksSo businesses are beginning to split their IT departments into two groups, explains David Mitchell Smith of Gartner.
Diana Glassman, a data protection expert, says that a useful first step would be for the boss to write to all employees reminding them of the risks and potential cost of data leakage, and asking them, before passing data to anyone else, to question whether that person truly needs, or is entitled to, it.Many of the worst recent data leakages resulted from failure of the most basic kind.
That system is made staggeringly inefficient by theft and leakages.
Writing of one rural development programme, the report cites "leakages, misappropriation of funds, violation of programme guidelines, selection of the non-poor as a target group, absence of proper maintenance of accounts and poor quality of assets".
But the government's chief economic adviser, Kaushik Basu, among others, agrees that savings by "plugging leakages"—that is, stopping huge theft and waste in welfare and subsidies will be "very big, very beneficial .The real difficulties are political.
This is critical, since methane is a powerful greenhouse gas pollutant, and uncontrolled leakages call into question whether natural gas is cleaner than coal from a global climate perspective.
That is why Mr Brown is keen on a co-ordinated fiscal easing, so that exporters can benefit from extra demand in Britain's main trading partners.Because of these leakages, the budgetary boost will moderate the economic downturn to only a limited extent.
They could then agree to go no further with these than they have already.Next, an agreement on co-ordinating fiscal policy would go a long way towards making such a standstill commitment credible, because it would alleviate worries about leakages abroad.
Greens fear leakages, but overland pipes are far less risky than, say, shifting oil in trucks, and the pipe's owners would have to pay for any clean-up.Where American energy policy is far less sensible is when it comes to the price reflecting the true cost.
