Niger State governor, Babangida Aliyu, recently announced the recruitment of about 4,000 graduates into the state's civil service. It was under the state's Graduate Employment Scheme aimed at reducing the unemployment rate in the state.

SA WOULD be ill-advised to dissolve the Southern African Customs Union (Sacu) because three members opted to sign a separate trade agreement with the European Union (EU), says a prominent trade economist.

Coca Cola and Microsoft are among dozens of companies which are adding to their bottom line while helping Africa and Asia meet their development targets as part of a United Nations-backed scheme.

TRADE unions and the government will start negotiations in earnest this week in an attempt to resolve an impasse over pay structures in the public service.

THE global economic crisis could help to alleviate Africa's brain drain, with many African migrants deciding the grass was not necessarily greener abroad and coming home to reconstruct the continent, President Jacob Zuma said yesterday as he opened the annual