Fresh calls to abolish lashes in schools

>Education stakeholders have voiced their scepticism about the government’s promise to offer free secondary school education from 2016.

The minister for Industry and Trade, Dr Abdallah Kigoda, yesterday called for the identification of hurdles hampering the country’s manufacturing sector.

>Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) yesterday called for global development agencies and donors to assist the government in awareness raising on Post 2015 Development Agenda (P2015DA).

Athletics Tanzania (AT) has called upon the government to develop sports in schools for fitness and academic performance.

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A Nigerian man receives 20 lashes after an Islamic court in the northern city of Bauchi convicted him of homosexual offences.

A member of the Coalition of Defenders of the People’s Constitution, Ukawa, the Reverend Peter Msigwa, has faulted Archbishop Bishop Donald Mtetemela “for looking at only one side of the coin.”

England star Wayne Rooney hit back Tuesday at media suggestions that he could be dropped from the World Cup team after he was seen training with the squad’s substitutes.

The government’s decision to lower land charges by 50 per cent starting July 2015, will obviously be a big reprieve to commercial farmers who have been asking the government to brind the charges down.