The tricky business of campaign gigs

The cleanliness campaign on Independence Day pioneered by President Magufuli has renewed a sense of optimism among the business community in the city that they will get more customers as a result.

Facts On Doing Business in Africa Campaign
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Through the Doing Business in Africa (DBIA) Campaign, the U.S. government is strengthening its commercial relationship with the continent of Africa, a diverse region that offers substantial trade and investment opportunities across national and regional ...
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The cool sea breeze calms the scorching sun that has turned most of the grass brown and from the look of things there is an expectant mood around here.

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…! 

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.

Kumbaya helps parents find virtual babysitting, tutoring, and other gigs for their teens  VentureBeat

Being a resident of Tabata who works in a company based in Tabata, irrigates my throat with yellowish liquids in a Tabata-located bar, sleeps and snores on a bed located in a room that belongs to a house in Tabata, and attends send-off (as opposed to send-away) parties in Tabata-hosted halls, I am literally cut off from the rest of Dar es Salaam.

>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].

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...