King Mswati has directed Swaziland's college graduates to leave the country to find employment, admitting that a lack of jobs at home gives them no alternative.

National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas workers (NUPENG) and the Petroleum and the Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN) have expressed disgust at the planned sale of the Pipeline Products Marketing Company (PPMC) and the Nigerian Gas Company (NGC).

The Bauchi State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB) says more than 12,000 of its 16,000 primary school teachers are unfit to teach.

The two in-house workers' unions representing the 9,000 workforce of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) have issued a 14-day ultimatum to the Federal Government if within these two weeks the Federal Government does not make a clear statement on the proposed sales of the Pipeline and Products Marketing Company (PPMC) and the Nigerian Gas Company (NGC).

THE Police and Prisons Civil Rights Union (Popcru), in an unprecedented move, is looking at ways to combine private-sector policing initiatives with mainstream crime-fighting.

EDUCATION Minister Naledi Pandor and teacher unions yesterday launched a new Quality Learning and Teaching Campaign, aimed at garnering social support for education in SA.

FOREIGN currency earners and companies could soon pay enormous amounts in rates and commission for foreign currency transactions following the gazetting of a new statutory instrument defaulting all taxes paid after the introduction of the official interbank foreign exchange rate.

THE article; Politics and Prejudice: Plight of Zimbabwe Women by Alex Magaisa which appeared in the Zimbabwe Independent (September 12 2008) arouses deep questions for the soul and the entire human family.

The Brong-Ahafo Regional Chairman of the Ghana National Association of Private Schools (GNAPS), Nana Kwadwo Kwakyie II, has criticised the government for excluding teachers in private schools, from benefiting from the National Teachers Awards.

As part of austerity measures to keep the Northwest Development Authority, MIDENO, alive, its Board members have resolved to slash salaries of workers from top to bottom.

Some 15, 550 community health workers have been trained to intensify the fight against malaria through a door-to-door sensitisation and treatment of simple malaria cases.

Security guards at Sitore Security Services are fuming after their employer failed to pay their wages for two months in a row.

Group Managing Director/CEO of BGL Plc, Mr. Albert Okumagba has said that a well articulated Development Action Plan (DAP) is imperative for economic transformation of Northern Nigeria to free the region from the firm grip of poverty.

Since its seven years of existence, MTN Nigeria has proved that it is not only spawned for profit motive but to create and add values to the Nigeria's socio-economic life.

Members of the National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas workers (NUPENG), and the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN), joint group executive councils of the NNPC, have threatened to embark on a nationwide strike if after 14 days the Federal Government fails to reverse the proposed sale of the Pipeline Products Marketing Company (PPMC), and the National Gas ...

The Bauchi State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB) says more than 12,000 of its 16,000 primary school teachers are unfit to teach.

Loss of skilled personnel is affecting operations in the mining sector, an official said yesterday.

Plateau State government has cleared over N3.7 billion backlog of 18 months salaries owed civil servants , the Special Adviser to the state governor on Media and Public Affairs, Mr Daniel Manjang told Daily Trust correspondent in Jos yesterday.

Taxation of judges' salaries took a new dimension when they decided to send Chief Justice Evan Gicheru to meet with President Kibaki on the matter.

Midlands State University has stopped lessons until further notice after lecturers went on strike last week. In a statement to students yesterday, MSU registrar Mr Godfrey Gurira said lectures could not begin after the institution opened on September 29 because lecturers had not turned up for duty.

Labour Minister Membathisi Mdladlana has expressed satisfaction at the performance of the Unemployment Insurance Fund (UIF) which has earned an unqualified report from the Auditor General for the third successive year.

Hundreds of public sector workers across Guinea-Bissau, including nurses, doctors and civil servants, are striking over salary arrears, leaving basic services running at minimum capacity.

THE United Democratic Movement (UDM) launched its election campaign yesterday, emphasising the issues of job creation, crime, education, corruption and electoral reform.

The frustrations of a majority of Nigerians over the lack of progress in virtually all aspects of Nigerian life, lack of good leadership programmes on the seven-point agenda relative to the outstanding accomplishments of other countries, with which the country started the journey towards nationhood, may well reflect the disgust and anger of the organised Labour in the 48th Independence of Nigeria.

National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG)has opposed the planned privatisation of the Pipelines Products Marketing Company (PPMC)and Nigeria Gas Company (NGC)by the Federal Government.