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  • July 3
  • Times of Zambia Zambia: 300 Health Workers Charged

    MORE than 300 health workers in Ndola have been asked to exculpate themselves or face disciplinary charges for allegedly going on an illegal strike.

  • Daily Trust Nigeria: Addressing the Menace of Area Boys [editorial]

    The Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Muhammad Sa'ad Abubakar was right when he raised serious concerns recently over the growth of the menace of negative youthful exuberance, characteristic of miscreants generally referred to as Area Boys, in an otherwise peaceful state of Sokoto. The Sultan's alarm came while receiving in audience the new Police Commissioner posted to the state.

  • BuaNews South Africa: Possible 2010 Strike Will Not Affect Stadia Deadlines

    The possible strike by construction workers will not affect the deadline to have 2010 FIFA World Cup stadia completed six months ahead of the tournament.

  • Zimbabwe Independent Zimbabwe: Civil Servants to Get Salaries

    GOVERNMENT will from this month start paying civil servants salaries instead of allowances after it emerged that its coffers had improved.

  • Independent (Lagos) Nigeria: Global Economic Recession - Yar'Adua, Jonathan Lose 300 Percent Gratuity

    President Umaru Yar'Adua and his Deputy, Goodluck Jonathan, are to lose their gratuity of 300 per cent of basic salary, in part to tame the effect of the global economic crunch on country folk.

  • Independent (Lagos) Nigeria: ASUU - Time for Self-Examination (2)

    My submission is that there is so much corruption in the university system, and no responsible government can continue to throw funds into a drain pipe. As for the issue of salary increment, please forget it. If any increment is granted by government, other professional or rival unions in the public sector will follow suit and make the country ungovernable.

  • The Herald Zimbabwe: Pay Promise for Civil Servants as Teachers Threaten Strike

    TEACHERS threatening to strike over unfulfilled pay promises have been told that civil servants are likely to get proper salaries when Finance Minister Tendai Biti presents the mid-term fiscal policy on July 16.

  • Daily Trust Nigeria: President, VP Lose 300 Percent Severance Pay, hardship Allowance Reduced From 50 Percent to 30 Percent

    President and his vice will no longer enjoy the severance gratuity of 300 percent of their annual basic salary after the completion of their tenure, the Revenue Mobilization Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC) has recommended.

  • Daily Trust Nigeria: N2 Billion Police Pension Lodged in Finance Ministry

    About N2 billion pensions of retired police officers have been kept in the Ministry of Finance, the Inspector General of Police (IGP) Mike Okiro has said.The IGP represented by the Deputy Inspector General of Police in charge of 'A Department' (Administration and Finance) Ogbonna Onovo said this yesterday at the Annual General Meeting of the Association of Retired Police Officers of Nigeria ...

  • Daily Trust Nigeria: Call Off Strike, PPA Appeals to ASUU

    The National Chairman of the Progressive Peoples Alliance (PPA), Mr Clement Ebri has asked the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to stop the on-going industrial action in the interest of their students.

  • This Day Nigeria: At Last, Pay Cut For Public Officers Begins

    The pay cut for public and political office holders proposed by President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua in February will take effect at the end of this month.

  • This Day Nigeria: What Kind of Bank Job is This? [analysis]

    They are the envy of many of their university colleagues. They dress well according to the detect of the job. Some of the young bankers, especially those employed in the marketing department of are actually suffering and smiling. They say the pressure on them to bring customers' deposits to their banks is driving many of them to employ dangerous alternative means.

  • July 2
  • Business Day South Africa: Doctors Call for End to Wildcat Strike

    THE Rural Doctors Association of Southern Africa (Rudasa) yesterday called on its members who joined the strike over pay to return to work because the primary healthcare system was under strain.

  • Health-e South Africa: Nurses Want to Leave Profession

    Two-thirds of South African nurses said that they were unlikely to still be in the profession in five years' time, according to research released at the International Council of Nurses (ICN) congress.

  • Vanguard Nigeria: It Takes a Strike [editorial]

    STRIKES have always had their place. For years, some have started condemning the regular feature the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has made strikes. Is there a year that passed without an ASUU strike?

  • SW Radio Zimbabwe: Teachers Renew Strike Threat Over Pay

    Almost two months after a potentially crippling teachers strike was averted, teachers once again on Thursday renewed their threat to down tools over low salaries.

  • Mmegi Botswana: Recession Swallows Study Opportunities for Teachers

    The department of teacher training and development will not send 72 teachers for training in external institutions even though they were nominated for further training to upgrade their qualifications.

  • Times of Zambia Zambia: Luanshya Miners Get Back Jobs

    THE new investor that has taken over Luanshya Copper Mines (LCM), China Non-ferrous Metal Group Company (CNMC), has started re-engaging former employees, who have been flocking to the general offices in large numbers.

  • Health-e South Africa: Keeping Tabs On the Doc Strike

    Health-e will be posting updates on the doctor strike as they becomes available.

  • BuaNews South Africa: Govt Urges Doctors to Resume Their Duties

    Cabinet has made a special appeal to those state doctors who have gone on strike to return to work as a matter of urgency.

  • The Herald Zimbabwe: Teachers Want Maize, Sweet Potatoes as Fees

    Some Masvingo teachers are allegedly demanding buckets of maize and sweet potatoes from students who fail to raise school fees, a practice condemned by parents as a "raw deal" for them.

  • Times of Zambia Zambia: Nine Health Workers Dismissed

    NINE health workers have been dismissed in Chingola and Mkushi for allegedly participating in the just ended strike, Health Workers Union of Zambia (HWUZ) president Chrispin Sampa has said.

  • Vanguard Nigeria: NDE Partners Private Firm on Job Creation

    THE National Directorate of Employment (NDE) and a private firm, Logine International Limited, have set up a joint committee to work out a frame-work that would lead to the establishment of Information and Communications centers across the country with the aim of generating employment through skills acquisition.

  • Vanguard Nigeria: Absentee Legislators Embarrass Country at ILO [interview]

    The recent 98th conference of the ILO was historic in many aspects. It not only coincided with the 90th anniversary of the ILO, it adopted the Global Jobs Pact designed to overcome job losses that people all over the world have experienced.

  • Independent (Lagos) Nigeria: Makinde's Sermon on Democracy

    Dr. Sunday Ola Makinde, Prelate of the Methodist Church of Nigeria, undoubtedly is a figure described by close associates as a clergyman with class. They also see him as a man who would not for any reason compromise his stand on an issue that borders on the development of the nation. He hits the nail on the head, according to his admirers, not minding whose ox is gored.

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