According to Emmanuel Hategeka, the CEO of PSF, the money will be used to sustain projects such as the business plan competition, as well as creating job opportunities and providing internships for TVET students.

After establishing a job desk website which is acting as a meeting place between young people looking for jobs and companies who have vacancies, Youth Empowerment System (YES) Rwanda has set up a program called "the incubator" which is aiming

THE JSE's gold mining index dropped 1,64% to 2360 points yesterday as investors considered the possible effects on mining companies of threatened strikes over wages, a flat gold price and a stronger rand.

Zimbabwe's cash strapped government has raised salaries for civil servants by an average of 55 per cent in a move that has angered unions who say the increment falls short of their expectations.

Labor Inspectors representing the 15 political subdivisions of the country have gathered in Monrovia for a three-day National Tripartite workshop, which commenced yesterday.

EDO State governor, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole yesterday in Benin said that the state government would not accept the downward review of the remuneration package of political office, public and judicial office holders, saying that he has serious reservations about it.

The State Minister for Primary and Secondary Education, Théoneste Mutsindashyaka, relieved his duties as a minister in a surprise move announced late last evening.

After the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) rejected a 40% pay rise by the Federal Government (FG) last week, the Minister of Labour and Productivity, Mr Adetokunbo Kayode, yesterday said the FG would still meet with striking University lectures

Federal Government has set up a high-powered committee on minimum wage to stem the current spate of industrial actions by trade unions in the country, Minister of Labour and Productivity, Ademola Adetokumbo, said on Tuesday.

THE highly organised smuggling of goods in and out of the country is a serious problem crippling our economy.

PUBLIC servants are demanding a 15% wage increase across the board and want this year's pay talks to centre on the creation of "decent work".

Heads of two prominent foreign investments Arcelor Mittal Joseph Matthews and BHP Billiton Country Representative Bob Heinrich said the country lacks qualified and trained workforce needed in strategic areas of their investments due to the 14 years of the civil

TanzaniteOne Mining Limited, a giant firm mining gemstones at Mererani in Manyara region, yesterday hit back at reports it was exposing its workers radiation hazards.

Two international humanitarian organizations maintaining partnership with the American-based organization, Youth Action International (YAI), have expressed their concerns in improving the lives of the Liberian people through education, teachers training and other aspects such as teaching and training of early

Eliphas Mukonoweshuro, the Minister for Public Service, announced on Tuesday an increase in allowances for civil servants starting this month. Teachers will see their allowances go from $100 a month to $145 (after bank charges and taxes) while doctors will

The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has decried what it described as the exacerbation of the current economic plight of the average Nigerian by the political class, rather than seek solutions to the problems confronting the economy of the country.

Up to 600 job cuts are planned at Virgin Atlantic amid a "bleak" outlook for the airline industry. The airline, which has juts marked its 25th anniversary, is trimming winter capacity by seven per cent year-on-year.

If Nigeria gets tourism right, crime will reduce and it will make a whole lot of difference in the country, the Nigerian Tourism Development Corporation (NTDC) has said, adding that "the only secret remaining for Africa, particularly Nigeria is Tourism."

The on-going nationwide rally by the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and Civil Society Organizations took an unusual twist yesterday in Makurdi, the Benue State capital when the state NLC chairman Comrade Simon Anchaver passed a vote of confidence on Governor

WORKERS in the nation's petroleum industry, besides the increasing problems of casualisation of workers, contract staffing and management apathy towards unionisation of workers, are now being confronted with the dual challenges of global economic down turn and heightened militancy in