The member of Parliament (MP) for the Kwadaso constituency in Kumasi, Dr. Owusu Afriyie Akoto, has sternly criticised the government of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), under Prof. John Evans Atta Mills, for aggravating the woes of cocoa farmers in the country.
The era of cordial relationship that has existed between the Abia House of assembly and the Executive appears to be heading for collision as the Lawmakers in less than one week after resuming from two-months annual recess have embarked on indefinite recess to protest non payment of their overhead cost and other allowances even as teachers and some council workers in the state threaten to down ...
NEARLY 224000 job opportunities have been created since April, according to Public Works Minister Geoff Doidge , but the poor are still being overwhelmed by the jobs bloodbath, with nearly 1-million jobs having been shed so far this year.
The lords of Malindi salt mines have been riding roughshod over area residents with impunity. Beneath the veneer of the successful mining firms are tales of hopelessness as many local residents are living under the fear of eviction, environmental-induced illnesses, human rights violations and general exploitation.
It is one of the world's oldest professions, dating so far back that it is even mentioned in the Bible. But in the deeply cultural and religious country of Swaziland, Senator Thuli Msane stirred a hornet's nest when she publicly challenged a new strict bill opposing prostitution.
Last week, the Director General, National Automotive Council (NAC), Aminu Jalal, said in Abuja that over two million Nigerian auto mechanics may be rendered unemployed by the influx of new cars into the county.
President Jacob Zuma has decided to implement a 7 percent salary increase across the board for public office bearers.
TRADE union Solidarity will challenge the implementation of affirmative action in the police service and correctional services, taking to court 10 cases where white employees claim they were prejudiced because of the colour of their skin.
PRESIDENT Jacob Zuma yesterday shot down a proposed 8% salary increase for senior state office bearers, opting instead for a 7% hike in a sign of belt-tightening as tax revenues plunge.
THE National Union for Communication Workers (NUCW) leadership deserves commendation for the noble and mature manner in which it is approaching the impending Zamtel sale.
The President of the West Africa College of Nursing (WACN), Mrs. Dedeh Jones has blamed the drastic decline in the standard of the nursing education and practice in the country to the employment of "unqualified medical personnel' who do not meet the basic standard of the profession.
For over a week now, the entire nation's attention has been riveted on Zanzibar, following the rare and highly unexpected meeting between two erstwhile political foes, President Amani Abeid Karume and the Civic United Front leader, Maalim Seif Shariff Hamad.
A few years on, residents in disadvantaged areas of Libreville no longer look twice at the men and women wearing overalls, boots and protective masks as they push their wheelbarrows full of bin bags through the streets of the capital.
WHEN the African National Congress (ANC) and its leftist allies gather tomorrow for three days of talks on how to deliver on jobs, education, health, crime and rural development, the answers they craft will have to go beyond ideology.
THE Federal Government, on the second day of its meeting with leaders of the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, yesterday, admitted that its planned deregulation of the downstream sub-sector of the petroleum industry will lead to an increase in the pump price of petrol.
