EDITORIAL: Time to expedite policy on pregnant schoolgirls

>Education is the right for every child in Tanzania. Indeed, it is everybody’s right, for even holders of degrees have the right to seek further learning, which explains why, for instance, we have the very vibrant Open University of Tanzania (OUT) which admits learners as old as 70, to pursue their first degrees!

TheCitizen

Habari Zinazoendana

5 years ago

BBC

30 Mar

Sierra Leone overturns ban on pregnant schoolgirls

The ban was introduced in 2015 as schools reopened after the Ebola crisis.

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

01 Feb

Govt urged to act on pregnant school girls’ policy

Education stakeholders have requested the government to put to use the long awaited policy seeking to allow teenage students conceiving in schools to continue with their studies.

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

01 Mar

EDITORIAL: Involve farmers in policy formulation

>For decades, agriculture has been the economic mainstay of Tanzania. Despite the growth of other sectors in recent years, it accounts for 24.5 per cent of the country’s gross domestic product, provides 85 per cent of exports and employs more than a half of the workforce.

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

12 Jan

EDITORIAL: Ikulu bid: Policy ideas, yes; dirty politics, no

>As the excitement over the entry into the new year is wearing off, political excitement is gathering momentum in the form of  the race to State House. Against its backdrop is the fact that, in compliance with constitutional requirements, President Jakaya Kikwete  is nearing the end of his second and final term.

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

18 Mar

EDITORIAL: Time to tell the truth about the referendum

>In yesterday’s edition of The Citizen, we reported that the planned referendum on the Proposed Constitution could be held side by side with the October elections instead of April 30, which has been widely publicised.

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

27 Mar

EDITORIAL: Ban on smoking in public: It’s time to get serious

>It is easy to dismiss smokers as people who should simply be ignored since they are self-destructive, but the matter is not as simple as that. The health of a non-smoker seated next to a person who is smoking is endangered too.

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

28 Mar

EDITORIAL: It is time to go back to the drawing board

>Tennis is one of the less popular sports here. In recent years, though, it has recorded significant progress with some fine talent looking to turn professional.

 

11 years ago

TheCitizen

28 Mar

EDITORIAL: Why the budget puzzle must be solved in time

>The uncertainty that has gripped the country over the tabling of the 2014/2015 budget has exposed our leaders’ lack of foresight and their inability to plan well ahead.

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

13 Sep

EDITORIAL: Now’s the time to back netball in Tanzania

>Morogoro’s Jamhuri Stadium recently hosted the Union Netball league that saw JKT Mbweni win the title.  The tournament offered plenty of entertainment for netball fans, especially now that both the Tanzania Mainland Netball Association (Chaneta) and its Zanzibar counterpart, Chaneza, are winding up their annual sports calendars.

 

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