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The President of the fourth Republic of Ghana, Prof. John Evans Atta Mills has assured the business community in the country of a massive support, as well as commitment to strengthen local businesses in the country.
Prof. John Evans Atta Mills assumes office on January 7 as Ghana's third President in the Fourth Republic, basking in the fresh glory of the Ghanaian electorate. Public expectations are high that his government will do its best to improve the living standards of the people. As an intellectual, law professor, tax administrator, and politician, Prof. Mills stands tall on the political landscape ...
MINEWORKERS have threatened to down tools should they receive their next salary in local currency, a development that could aggravate the crisis in the country's major foreign currency earner.
The Senate Committee on Employment, Labour and Productivity has urged President Umaru Yar' Adua to prioritise job creation in 2009.
THE African National Congress (ANC) aims to get tough on the "problem of labour broking".
The federal government yesterday failed to persuade members of the Judiciary Staff Union of Nigeria (JUSUN) to call off their one month old nationwide strike in protest against poor welfare package for judicial workers.
A cross section of Abuja-based legal practitioners yesterday called on the relevant stakeholders to work towards the end of the ongoing judicial workers strike.The workers have been on strike for the past five weeks, demanding for improved working conditions.
Five officers of the ranks of air vice marshal and commodores (equivalent to army generals) and 30 other senior officers from the rank of group captain and below have been retired from the Nigeria Air For-ce, Daily Trust learnt.
The Inspectorate of Government (IG) has suspended the appointment of Assoc. Prof. Jockey Nyakaana as Director of Quality Assurance, Makerere University, following reports that he plagiarised material from his former student, and complaints that he was irregularly selected for the post.
The coalition of youth organizations and youth serving agencies (CYOYSA) has ended a one-day conference on the campaign for youth employment and to improve poor people's living at the ENCISS headquarters, King Harman Road Brookfields, Freetown.
TRADE Union Congress of Nigeria (TUC), is excited with the jobs creation initiative of the Comrade Adams Oshiomhole led-government in Edo state, which planned to create not less than 10,000 jobs in the next four months, even as it called on the federal government to immediately organised a job-summit that will bring all stakeholders together to fashion out ways of tackling the unemployment scourge ...
An industrial disharmony appears imminent in the country's oil and gas industry following the appointment of Cobalt International Services by the Federal Government as Pre-Shipment Inspector for the 21 Crude-Oil Export Terminals.
Two leading labour unions in the oil industry, NUPENG and PENGASSAN have given the Federal Government a 21-day ultimatum to revoke the appointment of pre-shipment inspectors for crude oil exports or contend with a strike.
Oil workers have given the government a 21-day ultimatum to reverse the appointment of a pre-shipment inspector for crude exports or face the risk of industrial action.
Lagos State Governor, Babatunde Fashola, on Thursday commended doctors in the state for calling off their strike, describing their action as patriotic.
Democratic People's Alliance (DPA) has commended the Lagos State Government and medical doctors serving in the state for resolving the industrial dispute.
Justice Augustine Adetula Alabi, the Chief Judge of Lagos State, is our Law personality this week. In this interview, he talks about the reforms in the state judiciary and the national strike embarked upon by judiciary workers.
SA's economy faces a rough ride this year, with job losses set to keep consumer spending in check and a slowdown in private investment likely to gather momentum.
The 2009 academic year is off to a rocky start with school doors remaining firmly closed this week, after an announcement by Zimbabwe's education minister that schools will only open in two weeks time.
Normalcy is expected to return to Lagos State government-owned hospitals today as doctors employed by the state return to work following the suspension, yesterday, of the three-day strike called by the Medical Guild. The Guild said it was suspending the strike for 90 days to enable the authorities look into the issues it had raised concerning the welfare of doctors and the deplorable state of ...
WARNINGS of more severe job losses put the brakes on the New Year stock market rally yesterday as the bleak outlook for global economic growth and company earnings eclipsed a raft of stimulus packages and interest rate cuts around the world.
Medical doctors in the employment of the Lagos State government under the aegis of Medical Guild yesterday announced the suspension of the indefinite strike they embarked upon last Monday over what they described as poor condition of service.
In its bid to ease the car rental needs of Nigerians, Avis Nigeria, a member of Avis Group Plc, one of the leading car rental companies in Europe, Asia, the Middle East and Africa, recently sent some of its executives to participate at Avis EAMEA Region Annual Country Conference 2008, held at the prestigious JW Marriot Hotel, Cairo, Egypt.
Human Rights Writers' Association of Nigeria (HURIWA), a pro-poor Non-Governmental Organisation, has on Wednesday thrown its' weight behind the Nigerian Labour Congress' (NLC) fresh demand from governments at every level of the payment of a new minimum wage bill of N52,200 to all workers in the country just as it canvassed the introduction of the payment of unemployment social welfare allowances ...
The Anambra State government has commenced verification of the staff of the State Water Corporation.
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