Teachers Protest Over Unpaid Salaries in Bayelsa

    The unpaid teachers took to the major roads to press home their demands before marching to the state secretariat in Yenago.

     According to a source, they said while other workers in the state have received half month payment three times, they have not received anything

    The teachers also rejected government’s proposition to give them half pay for the month of August on Thursday, insisting that the government must pay them as the other workers.

     The Chairman of the Academic Staff Union of Secondary Schools (ASUSS) in Bayelsa State, Mr Oyiemi Ebiredeni, said that members of the union had been battling to survive, as a result of unpaid salaries.

Source: Channels

Pregnant Women Who Take Paracetamol Likely to Have Childen With Behavioural Problems

 
     Scientists have found an association between mothers who took the drug in the first and third trimester of pregnancy and hyperactivity and emotional problems in their seven-year-old children.
Paracetamol is the world’s most popular painkiller and is the only one deemed safe to take during pregnancy.