Nigeria: Abia Inaugurates Committee On Implmentation of TSS
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Vanguard (Lagos)
8 August 2008
Posted to the web 8 August 2008
Anayo Okoli
Umuahia-In line with the agreement reached by meeting of state governors on the Teachers' Salary Scale (TSS), Abia State Government has set up an 8-member committee to work out the modalities to implement the new structure.
The committee, headed by the Secretary to State Government, Mazi Donatus Okorie, was set up after the state weekly Executive Council meeting held Wednesday. Other members of the committee include, Commissioner for Education, Finance, Attorney General and Justice, Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs, Head of Service and chairman of the state NUT.
Meanwhile, the SSG is also to head the committee on the early realisation of the state industrial park.
According to the Commi-ssioner for Information, Culture and Tourism, Chief Ralph Egbu, who briefed journalists, the governmenmt has also directed that all Day Care Centers be registered with the ministry of Women Affairs at a cost of N20,000 and an annual renewal fee of N5,000.
The measure, Egbu explained, is to check the increasing cases of child traffikking and baby selling in most of the centers, stressing that the ministry would be able to monitor their activities henceforth.
Egbu also disclosed that contract has been awarded for the rehabilitation and ashphalt overlay of eight streets in Umuahia, the capital city, which include, Ojike, Macaulley, Uwalaka, Warri, Finbars, Calabar, among others.
He further revealed that Umuekwule-Afugiri-Umukabia Road and rehabilitation of Faulks road in Aba are among the roads slated for work.
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