THE National Social Security Fund (NSSF) wants proposals for reforms.

Angolan Government Wednesday in Luanda decided that hiring of foreign personnel for the oil sector should take place upon confirmation that the local market has no nationals with required qualification and experiences, and authorisation from the Oil Ministry.

The Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics ( ASUP) has called on the governor of Kwara State, Dr. Bukola Saraki to recall all sacked members of the union or risk a nationwide solidarity strike by all polytechnics in the country.

National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) yesterday put a provisional figure of unemployment in the country at 11.8 per cent as at March.

The senate of the University of Zambia (Unza) Great East Road campus in Lusaka has ordered the closure of the institution for a "three-week recess."

ZIMBABWE'S exports for the 2008 half-year dropped by 14 percent to US$787,97 million from a year earlier, latest data from the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe has shown.

Ogun State has been acknowledged as one of the States paying accurate salary structure approved by the Federal Government for teachers.

At the Kwara State polytechnic along Jebba road in Ilorin, situation there could aptly be described as a case where things have irretrievably fallen apart and so centre can no longer hold.

Ogun State Police Command has arrested 2 suspects in connection with Tuesday's gruesome murder of four members of the state chapter of Nigeria Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW).

THE average salary for newly qualified chartered accountants in SA has risen between 11% and 15% over the past year, according to a new study released by international recruitment firm antonapps.

STAFFING company Kelly Group said yesterday that although the financial and retail sectors were cutting staff due to higher interest rates, construction, mining and tourism were countering the downward hiring trend.

Delivering a presentation at the Big Business Working Group, Finance Minister Trevor Manuel highlighted that the South African economy has created almost two million jobs since 2002.

Angolan prime minister's assistance minister, Aguinaldo Jaime, Wednesday in Luanda advised the banks managements to invest in the training of nationals so they can provide a better service, in view of the growth being recorded by the country's economy.

The energy crisis in South Africa has cost almost 2,000 Mozambican mineworkers their jobs.

The Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality has set up a new website where unemployed youth graduates can register to be linked to employment opportunities in the private and public sector and institutions of higher learning.

Item 34 - Labour, including trade unions, industrial relations, conditions, safety and welfare of labour, industrial disputes, PRESCRIBING A NATIONAL MINIMUM WAGE FOR THE FEDERATION, OR ANY PART THEREOF, industrial arbitrations. - Exclusive Legislative List, 1999 Constitution

The Federal Government says it won't breach the constitution over TSS which has put teachers in trenches for over one month now, with public primary and secondary schools shut.

Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) has reiterated its commitment to suspend the on-going strike after expressing optimism that they will get the Teachers Salary Structure (TSS) approved and implemented through the intervention of the Governors' Forum.

Imo State government has promised not to brush aside legitimate demands of teachers serving in the state.

Nigerian teachers are very hopeful of getting Federal Government's approval for the implementation of the new Teachers Salary Structure (TSS) within two weeks of suspension of strike.