Bayelsa teachers' salaries to be paid before other civil servants - Seriake Dickson.

Delta government sets up health insurance scheme for civil servants.

More than 100,000 civil servants have been sacked in Turkey, and another 47,000 people arrested - all alleged supporters of the US-based preacher Fethullah Gulen - since a state of emergency was imposed in the wake of the failed coup last July.

Osinbajo tasks civil servants on productivity, efficiency.

Civil servants in Zimbabwe are angry over the government's plan to cut 25-thousand jobs and slash annual bonuses. Rising unemployment and the failing economy have sparked weekly demonstrations.