Institute sets aside Sh6bn for legume agriculture

President Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete with Reasearch fellow and Senior Lecturer at the Muhimbili University of Health Sciences, Dr Julie Makani (left) and Prof. Mwaikambo during his familiarisation tour of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Washington DC July 2, 2014.President Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete speaks with members of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Washington DC during a familiarisation tour of the NIH, reputedly the largest hospital and reasearch facility in the world July...

 Tanzania yesterday signed an agreement with the Japan International Cooperation Agency (Jica).

Tanzania has promised to release Sh6 billion in the coming two weeks to bail out the cash-strapped Tanzania-Zambia Railway Authority (Tazara).

>About Sh6 billion worth of heroin and cocaine has been seized at Tanzania’s major airports in the past two-and-half-years, according to police reports. That haul came from only 56 drug trafficking suspects at Julius Nyerere International Airport (JNIA) and Kilimanjaro International Airport (KIA).

A court in Dar es Salaam yesterday set free CCM cadre, Mr Rajabu Maranda and four other men who faced charges of stealing Sh5.9 billion from the External Payment Arrears (EPA) account controlled by the central bank.

The fate of a Sh6 billion tender for setting up a health management scheme hangs in the balance after the public procurement regulator launched an investigation into alleged irregularities.

>The Parliamentary Local Authority Accounts Committee has accused the Mwanza City Council of selling a plot to the Bank of  Tanzania at a low price and building a substandard clinic.

The beach area between Lighthouse and Seacliff in the city will soon dress on a new face if a project - being implemented by TIB Development Bank and the Kinondoni Municipal Council – has anything to go by.

>Preparations have been finalized for the launching of Tanzania Agricultural Development Bank (TADB), a banker disclosed here last week.