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District accounting officers who consistently perform poorly will be blacklisted, the vice chairman of the Local Government Accounts Committee of Parliament has said.
Rivers State has disclosed plans to grant three to five years tax holiday to would -be investors.
In its renewed attempt to realize its primary healthcare policy, the Imo State Government says it will employ more Environmental Health Officers and rehabilitate health centres in the rural areas.
The House of Representatives on yesday approved changes to President Umaru Yar'Aduas medium term expenditure framework (MTEF) and fiscal strategy paper which it had a heated argument over last week, approving the forecast of economic growth rate and altering other indicators, including the oil benchmark.
President Yar'Adua has been called upon to sack the Minister of Federal Capital Territory, Senator Adamu Aliero, for closing all public schools in the territory for the sake of the 2009 Abuja Carnival.
The Government yesterday invited all primary school teachers with higher academic credentials to enlist with their respective district councils for promotion to teach in secondary schools.
The media of late have been awash with calls for the scrapping of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) because of reported deaths of corps members either in accidents, gang rape of its female members, or in the Scheme's inability to provide befitting permanent orientation camps, among others.
Anambra state government has agreed to pay the long agitated 27.5 percent Teachers Salary Structure (TSS) to teachers from next month.
Action Congress (AC) in Ekiti State, said yesterday that it has been vindicated over its earlier comment on the state of the state's teaching hospital, with the recent work to rule embarked upon by the medical personnel over obsolete medical facilities in the hospital.
Despite political and social distractions the present administration in Plateau State has been facing, the government has never shifted its focus on the provision of infrastructure to the urban and rural dwellers. ROLAND OGBONNAYA writes on the effort by Jang's administration to bring to life once dead bones on the plateau
The African University of Science and Technology (AUST), Abuja is to provide indigenous manpower to meet the demand for local content in the Nigerian oil sector. President of the university, Prof Hilary Inyang, who disclosed this during a tour by the Special Adviser to the President on Political Matters, Senator Polycarp Nwite said, "with the growing concern for local content in our oil sector, ...
Chairman, Zamfara State Teachers Service Board, Alhaji Nasir Ahmad Kotorkoshi has assured all newly recruited teachers in the state that efforts were being made by the government to pay their backlog of entitlements.
DICK Katende has turned down an offer by the Uganda Amateur Boxing Federation (UABF) to train the national team Bombers, reports Johnson Were.
The life of John Materemera has been turbulent but he chose to ignore the challenges and learn from the experiences. One such experience was a job he got as a water supplier to artists at Bukoto General Moulders, opposite Kabira Country Club. After watching the artists at work, Materemera felt inspired to try out his hand at the art. "I used to watch them as they worked when I brought them ...
There are some co-workers with annoying habits - some can be defensive, rude, the know-it-all, gossip, those with strong odours, poor time-keepers, disorganised, chatty interruptions and joke crackers.
Two transport union members at Area 1, Abuja, yesterday escaped being brutalised by an angry mob that descended on them after an alarm was raised by a motorist.
Privatisation of Mombasa port has been put on hold as the government seeks to convince critics about its viability.
A strike is looming in the mining sector as workers and employers have failed to break the impasse over salary negotiations.
The chief Executive of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Ahmadu Giade has expressed concern over the shabby treatment of retirees by NICON Insurance, one of the pension fund managers of the agency.
The Trained and Allied Workers Union (TAWU) has rallied behind President Ian Khama's take on the ever increasing fees and upsurge of enrolment in education institutions without due regard to quality.
The Anambra State Government has agreed to pay the long agitated 27.5% Teachers Salary Structure (TSS) to teachers from next month.
MDC-T has fired its South African executive amid allegations of misappropriation of funds and abuse of resources among other issues.
THE state minister for higher education, Mwesigwa Rukutana, has urged the youth to embrace industrial training. Rukutana said it is important that Ugandans embrace the training because it imparts skills that prepare people for the demanding job market.
MINIMUM-WAGE earners belonging to trade unions on average had to make do with an increase of N$188 last year, but because of high inflation, the buying power of their monthly N$2 190 dropped by more than three per cent compared to 2007.
Employing close to 400 workers and clearing the region off some 1000 tons of metal-based trash every month, may not be such a bad idea for the Themi-hills based Trishala Rolling mills of Arusha.
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