Motorcycles could soon push taxis out of business

Police receive vehicles, motorcycles to address crime
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IN a bid to address crime in the country, Saudi Arabia government has donated 20 vehicles and 40 motorcycles worth one million US dollars to the police force. The donation was handed over on Friday by the Ambassador of Saudi Arabia to Tanzania Mr Hani ...

Today is World Toilet Day… Cheers! The banner ‘Toilets save lives’ might sound mundane, far-fetched... Or, at best: a smart-alecky trader’s way of drawing attention to toilet-related ware be fobbed off upon unwary prospective customers…! 

Entrepreneurs in Uganda are helping to improve safety for passengers riding on boda boda motorcycle taxis.

Uganda Premier League side URA FC are encouraging their players to earn extra cash by buying motorcycle taxis for them.

Seemingly for the umpteenth time, Tanzania’s major partners-in-development have come out in lavish praise for what they described as peaceful, stable transition from one govt to another.

The Bayelsa State Government of Nigeria (http://www.bayelsa.gov.ng) says it has concluded arrangements to host global business leaders between 16th and 18th July, 2014, at its maiden investment and economic forum with the theme ‘Unlocking Bayelsa State’s Economic Potentials’.

Disclosing this at a press briefing in Lagos, the State Commissioner of Trade, Industry and Investment, Barrister Kemela Okara said the Forum was in line with the present administration’s economic blueprint of a...

>The Tanzania Parliamentary Public Accounts Committee (PAC) is pushing for auditing existing tax exemptions in Tanzania to determine their merit or otherwise. [See ‘PAC calls for audit of all tax exemptions,’ Daily News: Jan. 14, 2015].

Two recent Press reports prompted this palaver on the tourism business in general – and ‘Zanzibar Tourism’ in particular! One was on the global tourism promotion event staged in the UK recently under the auspices of the World Travel Market (WTM).

Today, December 31, is the last day this year, also known as New Year’s Eve, which heralds the beginning of another year, January 1.