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MORE than 300 health workers in Ndola have been asked to exculpate themselves or face disciplinary charges for allegedly going on an illegal strike.
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.
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.
GOVERNMENT will from this month start paying civil servants salaries instead of allowances after it emerged that its coffers had improved.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 ...
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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 will be posting updates on the doctor strike as they becomes available.
Cabinet has made a special appeal to those state doctors who have gone on strike to return to work as a matter of urgency.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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