Why false promise will return to haunt parties

The first ten days of campaigns have already witnessed some aspiring leaders and their team members giving Tanzanians promises which are obvious untruths. Untruths in the sense that much of what they are pledging is unrealistic and unattainable.

TheCitizen

Habari Zinazoendana

10 years ago

IPPmedia

15 Feb

Corruption nightmare continues to haunt us

Corruption nightmare continues to haunt us
IPPmedia
Corruption continues to feature prominently in the in Tanzania, and to be a “popular” subject as we go through the early months of 2015. This is an unfortunate development, much as what is happening is not a surprise as such. If the malpractice was rampant ...

 

10 years ago

Daily News

28 Jan

Mysterious deaths haunt Arusha ward

Mysterious deaths haunt Arusha ward
Daily News
THREE mysterious deaths have been reported from the same area; the Kwa-Mrefu section of Baraa Ward where two men and a baby were found dead at different times. An egg salesman identified as Mr Wilson Mathayo in his early 50s was found dead just a ...

 

11 years ago

IPPmedia

24 May

JK election pledges now haunt MPs in Dodoma

IPPmedia
JK election pledges now haunt MPs in Dodoma
IPPmedia
Barely a year to the next general elections, unfulfilled election pledges by President Jakaya Kikwete during the 2010 now haunt Members of Parliament, many of whom are uncertain of their fate in the coming polls. Almost every legislator who took the floor to ...

 

11 years ago

TheCitizen

01 Jul

Bonus problems haunt African teams — again

The World Cup takes place once every four years. To put it in context, that is just one month in 6400 days.

 

9 years ago

TheCitizen

04 Nov

Boko Haram ghosts haunt ‘liberated’ areas

Life seems to be returning to normal in this northern Nigerian town a year after the army expelled the Islamist fighters of Boko Haram -- shops bustle with customers and vendors hawk their wares in the pot-holed streets.

 

9 years ago

TheCitizen

03 Nov

Boko Haram ghosts haunt 'liberated' areas in Nigeria's northeast

Life seems to be returning to normal in this northern Nigerian town a year after the army expelled the Islamist fighters of Boko Haram -- shops bustle with customers and vendors hawk their wares in the pot-holed streets.

 

11 years ago

TheCitizen

09 Mar

Poor revenue, high debts haunt govt in 2013/14 fiscal year

This financial year has been tough for the government. It was difficult to implement last year’s budget, largely due to failure to raise funds on time. Matters have been made worse by less than satisfactory expenditure management in the wake of poor revenue collection and missed tax targets.

 

11 years ago

TheCitizen

04 May

All the allegations levelled against Tancoal are false

It is unfortunate that Lucy Rodriguez did not attempt to contact Tancoal to discuss the Tancoal Ngaka coal mining project prior to her article being published in The Citizen on 22 March 2014. Had she done so, I would have been able to correct the numerous factual errors and erroneous assumptions she made before committing them to print.

 

11 years ago

TheCitizen

19 Jun

False Mkapanomics steps: we’re suffering

Tanzania still depends upon crippling handouts by aliens for around a third of the Govt. Budget year in, year out! This happens even after more than half-a-century of political independence under successive home-grown leadership derived from the same old, tired political stable man (CCM) and boy (Tanu).

 

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