Apt parenting, education, more jobs can curb crime

Youth gangs terrorised several Dar es Salaam neighbourhoods for over a month, until 149 of them got arrested following a coordinated police swoop that climaxed at the weekend. We are talking about the notorious outfit of youngsters calling themselves “Panya Road”.

TheCitizen

Habari Zinazoendana

10 years ago

TheCitizen

03 Nov

EDITORIAL: We must join hands to curb motorbike crime

>Reports that crime by motorcycle riders is on the rise is most disturbing. It is a great pity that while the society acknowledges bodaboda (as motorcycle taxis are popularly known) for their role as a source of employment for thousands of our youth, criminal elements are penetrating it, giving it a bad name.

 

9 years ago

TheCitizen

08 Nov

PARENTING : Parenting in this big bad world of ours

Many parents feel that the world today is a scarier place than the one they grew up in. While some of the things you worry about are real, others border on paranoia.

 

11 years ago

TheCitizen

28 Jan

‘Coalition’ move is apt

On Monday, The East African reported members of the so-called Coalition of the Willing (CoW) cancelled its meeting on infrastructure that was take place in Kampala in a bid to bring Tanzania on board.

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

08 Dec

There’s much more to apt leadership besides youth

It is in the youth that a nation pegs its future, that is why forward- looking governments lay immense emphasis on education and training of the country’s young. Such training includes exposing youth to leadership and decision-making at all levels.

 

9 years ago

TheCitizen

28 Nov

EDITORIAL: Social security push apt

Socio-cultural set up is undergoing rapid change in Africa. One key institution affected by the change is the family.

 

11 years ago

TheCitizen

25 Feb

Mugabe’s concern on Nyerere’s legacy apt

On Saturday, Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe described as embarrassing the failure by African leaders to honour Tanzania’s founding President, Mwalimu Julius Nyerere, for his role in liberating the Continent.

 

11 years ago

TheCitizen

12 Mar

CA must heed Justice Mihayo’s apt advice

Tanzania is in a very sensitive period in its history. For the very first time since independence , Tanzanians are fully involved in drawing up a Constitution that, hopefully, would see them prosper more and transform into a middle-income economy.

 

9 years ago

TheCitizen

14 Nov

EDITORIAL: Envoy’s advice on tax apt

Advice by outgoing European Union head of Delegation to Tanzania, Mr Filiberto Sebrogondi, to President John Magufuli on fiscal control is apt. Mr Sebrogondi also advised on the need to increase revenue collection by the government.

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

13 Mar

EDITORIAL: Minister’s warning on over-drinking most apt

>Too much alcohol is harmful to your health. We are stating a  virtual truism here, for anyone living in a community where drinking is part of the culture is witness to this. Yet we shouldn’t tire of preaching against over-drinking, for its negative effects go beyond the users.

 

Share