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The consequences of the Doha Round of trade talks for larger developing countries in sub-Saharan Africa could include job losses and deindustrialisation if a new study forecasting how Kenya is set to be affected is anything to go by.
POLICE captain Renate Barnard should have been promoted to superintendent in 2006 because she proved her competence in interviews and her score ratings were higher than the other candidates, retired assistant police commissioner Abraham Burger told the Labour Court yesterday.
GOVERNMENT has announced that the multi-facility economic zone (MFEZ) at Lumwana in Solwezi will attract an investment of about US$1.2 billion and create more than 13,000 jobs.
For sometime now, the issue of gratuity in the light of the pension reform has been a contentious one between employees and the employer. Many human resource managers are also not clear about how to handle this.
Abia State House of Assembly has denied embarking on any strike as reportedly alleged by one of the lawmakers last week, but said it is only on stand-by waiting the receipt of 2010 budget from the Executive.
Eskom on Wednesday announced the appointment of a new financial director, managing director and managing director.
HARARE Municipal Police have downed tools in protest over management's "indifference" towards their colleague who was arrested on allegations of killing a vendor last week.
MTN South Africa, has advanced strategies to reduce its permanent and temporary workforce as a result of the decline in the economic environment.
At the end of the rains the President of the Republic declared that he has produced 25,000 tons of rice for the 2009 farming season. He indicated that if others followed his footsteps Gambia will head towards self sufficiency in food production. After making the announcement it did not take long for the President to have a series of interviews with Modou Sanyang, the Director General of GRTS, ...
Staff who are working for the only cotton company in the country, GAMCOT, have told this reporter that they are yet to be paid their salary for the sixteenth month now. This revelation was made in an interview this reporter had with the staff of the said company.
Industrialist Mr James Mulwana, has asked government to consider reducing its numerous taxes, if it wants the private sector to create jobs. Speaking to manufacturers in the presence of Bank of Uganda Governor Emmanuel Mutebile, Mulwana said a poor taxation policy is adversely affecting the competitiveness of the private sector.
The National Organisation of Trade Unions has signed a cooperation agreement with the Egyptian Trade Union Federation. The agreement which was signed in Egypt last week is aimed at exchanging and twinning of workers.
The government has earmarked Shs30billion to address the alarming unemployment among youth.
The Ministry of Education and Sport will for the first time recognise and examine people with skills obtained in the informal sector, the Director of Directorate of Industrial Training has revealed.
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, ...
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