The coming academic year will start with a strike action by lecturers of State Universities in Cameroon, the National Union of Teachers of Higher Education, with French acronym, SYNES, has announced.

Two years ago, a non-governmental organisation seeking to ascertain the professions most sought after by young Nigerians sent 100 questionnaires each to five schools in the FCT.

National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) yesterday threatened to embark on a nationwide protest if the Federal Government refuses to immediately respond to the National Union of Teachers (NUT) demands.

The northern states may reintroduce teacher training colleges to ensure that more trained teachers are produced for schools in the region.

UNICEF says health workers' crisis in Africa poses a grave danger to governments' efforts at attaining the much needed success in the sector.

The Committee of Unions of Tertiary Institutions (CUTI) in Kwara has given the state government two weeks ultimatum to pay the CONTISS salary scale.

For three weeks now, teachers in public primary and secondary schools in the country have embarked on industrial action. The implication is that half of the children of school age are at present not in school. This is because there

Crisis is now brewing between staff of the Kano State Investment and Properties Limited over what the workers described as poor welfare and refusal of the management to implement the 15% salary increment as approved by the state government since

IN A country where robberies at homes and businesses have hit record highs, the decision to dismiss instantly a senior police officer with 22 years' experience for swearing in front of his boss was met yesterday with a fair amount

WORKERS in the 25 local government areas of Delta State under the aegis of Nigeria Union of Local Government Employees (NULGE) yesterday held a rally in Asaba in protest against calls for the abolition of Local Government system in Nigeria,

THE Federal Government and the National Economic Council (NEC) pleaded, yesterday, with the Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) whose members are on nationwide strike for the third week running to call it off and go into dialogue with the 36

THE Monitoring Group (IMG) has thrown its weight behind Nigerian teachers over their disagreement with the Federal Government.

Transport stakeholders in the country gathered in Dar es Salaam yesterday to give their views and comments on draft regulations drawn by the Surface and Marine Transport Regulatory Authority (Sumatra).

The nationwide industrial action embarked upon by the Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) has again taken its toll on vital activities in the education sector.

Queues are yet to disappear from filling stations in major Nigerian cities, four days after tanker drivers suspended a three-day strike to press for less expensive diesel, good roads and a pay rise. Motorists are still feeling the pains of

Desperate times call for desperate measures. The capitalist class and its stateare getting increasingly desperate as they attempt to stave off a globalcollapse of the financial system.

Workers World newspaper in the past has supported the candidates ofWorkers World Party running for national office in the U.S. presidentialelections and who have put forward a revolutionary socialist program. This timewe are taking the unusual step of endorsing the

Colombia estuvo en los titulares alrededor del mundo el 2 de Julio como nuncaantes. Nos enteramos que la ex candidata a la Presidencia de Colombia, IngridBetancourt, había sido liberada de un grupo guerrillero marxista, juntocon tres estadounidenses contratistas del Pentágono

A mob killed two leading militants of Haiti's National Popular Party,whose Creole acronym is PPN, outside the town of St. Raphael on June 26.

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