Board chair tips tobacco firms on staff

In a bid to increase productivity and help in addressing unemployment among graduates, tobacco processing companies here have been challenged to employ skilled instead of unskilled labourers.

TheCitizen

Habari Zinazoendana

5 years ago

TheCitizen

15 Feb

Tanzanian to chair Exploration firm board

Australian mining company Volt Resources (VRC) has appointed Tanzanian Asimwe Kabunga as its new chairman.

 

11 years ago

TheCitizen

31 May

WHO for more tobacco taxes in new budget

>As the world marks the No Tobacco Day today, whose theme is to raise taxes as a deterrent to smoking, there will be no special event to nationally commemorate the day in Tanzania, The Citizen on Saturday has reliably learnt.

 

9 years ago

BBC

30 Nov

The secret bribes of big tobacco

A BBC investigation uncovers evidence that one of the UK's biggest companies bribed officials in East Africa.

 

11 years ago

TheCitizen

04 Feb

Tobacco farming fuels truancy

 Increasing truancy in primary schools in Serengeti District has been attributed to child labour in newly-introduced tobacco farms.

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

24 Feb

TTB shuts tobacco markets

All is not well with tobacco farmers in Mara Region following the closure of the crop’s main markets due to financial constraints facing the Tanzania Tobacco Board (TTB).

 

9 years ago

TheCitizen

06 Sep

Tobacco prices to rise, says lowassa

Chadema presidential candidate Edward Lowassa has promised Tabora residents that he will raise tobacco prices if he is elected. The opposition coalition flag-bearer also declared war on traders who are yet to pay tobacco farmers their outstanding arrears.

 

10 years ago

BBC

Diplomats guilty of tobacco fraud

Gambian diplomats who sold tax-free tobacco from their London embassy are found guilty of cheating the UK taxpayer out of almost £4.8m.

 

11 years ago

TheCitizen

14 Jun

Thousands of children toil in tobacco fields

>Forty-eight per cent of children aged between 12 and 18 years in Sikonge District, Tabora Region, are working on tobacco farms, a government official said here.

 

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