THE Government has come up with strategies to reduce power losses, which cost the economy sh104b annually.

KYAMBOGO University has, in the last two years, sent 154 lecturers for further studies as part of its staff development programme.

WITH THE return of peace to Bawku, the Upper East Regional Minister, Mr. Alhassan Samari, has charged all heads of departments in the region, to direct their staff in Bawku to return to the area, after they had fled for

About 7,000 jobs will be created countrywide with the expansion of the "Nosso Super" supermarket network, under the Programme of Structuring of the System of Logistics and Distribution of Essential Commodities (Presild), underway since 2007.

The 2008 edition of the training of 145,000 primary school teachers by the National Teachers' Institute (NTI), Kaduna has commenced nationwide.

With the fears that the multi-billion dollar cocoa industry may have consigned the Harkin-Engel Protocol to the dustbin of history, Olaolu Olusina writes that there seems to be no end to the suffering of the poor children working in about

Faced with high business failure rates and a persistent shortage of skilled workers, the Uganda Private Sector Foundation has launched a $5 million World Bank funded skills upgrading project.

Police Specialist Officers across the country have threatened to embark on indefinite strike over what they described as "injustice and conspiracy" against them by the Inspector General of Police, Sir Mike Okiro.

Academic activities at the Kwara State Polytechnic (KWARAPOLY), Ilorin, have remained paralyzed following the strike action embarked upon two months ago, by the local chapter of the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP) over the non implementation of the Consolidated

THE engineering department of Walukuba-Masese division in Jinja Municipality has been blamed for the substandard work done on some of the projects in the division.

WHILE SA still has one of the highest rates of joblessness in the world, the past five years have seen a significant decline in unemployment. But the international downturn, which in SA may be aggravated by the electricity shortfall, threatens

NEW JSE listing requirements will compel auditing firms that wish to audit listed companies to be registered by the JSE and be listed on its register of auditors and advisers.

The Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) has demanded the inclusion of workers in the new jumbo pay recently approved for legislators by the Revenue Mobilisation and Fiscal Allocation Commission (RMFAC).

Federation of Uganda Employers (FUE) has embraced government's action to postpone the introduction of the Social Health Insurance scheme (SHI), which they say was hasty.

Some civil servants may not like it but the idea that they should start to contribute 5 per cent towards a pension fund is the best that could happen to help them cope with the huddles of retirement.

Civil servants in Bayelsa State clamouring for payment of the six months 15 per cent consolidated salary arrears owed by the state government can now heave a sigh of relief as modalities for payment of their arrears have been submitted

Erongo Region Small Miners Association (ERSMA), a body that protects and advances the interests of small-scale miners in that part of the country, was on Friday launched at Karibib.

Few months after telephone services were nearly paralysed as a result of a strike by workers of Nigerian Telecommunication Limited (NITEL), services may be crippled again today, if MTel management fails to meet the demands of its staff.

The National Assembly Commission and the management of the National Assembly have commenced the screening of all staff with a view to getting the actual number of ghost workers in its payroll.

MOST Zimbabwe School Examinations Council markers for the June Ordinary and Advanced Level examinations have not yet turned up, in protest at the low remuneration being paid by the body.