It’s sad presidential aspirations criminalised

As the battle for the Kikwete Succession heats up within the ruling party, Chama Cha Mapinduzi, former Prime Minister Edward Lowassa is shaping up as the man to watch, so much so that the new development is threatening to tear apart one of Africa’s oldest political parties.

Dambe is a sport that originated from the Hausa people but has now become popular around the world.

From a LIB reader who saw the little boy...

I was on my way to a shop in the market at Eke Awka in Anambra state and I saw this little child sleeping. First thing that came to my mind was that this child is resting after hawking either satchet (pure) water or any other goods he was asked to sell and was sleeping in such an environment, whereas his peers are in the classrooms learning. These are our future leaders and musn't be pass through all these sufferings in this 21st century. Please...

We are gratified that the brazen-faced clamour for more money by our Constituent Assembly (CA) members has been dealt with decisively.

Having dropped off a daladala that has stopped just for “msaada” (read illegal) at a bus stop just across one of your roadside locals, you walk to the counter. As it were, you’re dying for a drink.

“Had my son been alive, I would have not lived a miserable life like this. Perhaps, I would have been taken abroad for treatment,” these are the words of an approximately 80-year-old woman Aisha Baraka, who has spent most of her time in the last fifteen years lying in a traditional rope-crafted bed, famously known as Teremka Tukaze in Kiswahili.

>They turned up in big numbers; not even the tricky weather could stop them. They flocked towards one point carrying with them placards and banners bearing different messages aimed at their employer number one -- the President.

It’s interesting how many among us remain so stuck to their kind of English notwithstanding our weekly free tuition courtesy of this column.

Parliament is currently in its budget sitting and it is sad watching the conduct of the majority of its members.