YOUR BUSINESS IS OUR BUSINESS : Study shows there’s good business in human waste!

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.

>It’s been said time and again that Tanzania is phenomenally-endowed with natural and other resources. (Yet, the country is home to among the world’s twenty poorest peoples. About 36 per cent of its 45 million-strong population lives and dies in abject poverty more than half a century after the country attained independence (?) from foreign rule!)

>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...

After a little more than two months of strenuous electioneering involving especially two parties on different sides of the Political Divide, Tanzania has finally been ‘given a new’ president.

>Barely a month after the Tanzania Govt hiked excise duty on beverages (and tobacco goods, among other items), it has again hiked the tax on beers by an incredible 100 per cent!

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.

One of my favourite columnists in our East African region in this day and age is a professor of Economics at the Dar es Salaam Campus of the Mzumbe University going by the name and style of Dr Honest Prosper Ngowi .

In My Book of Things, it’s never too late to take a bite or two at a mouth-watering cherry – especially one that’s invitingly dangled before one’s eyes! But, this time round, the cherry I have in mind isn’t the plum-like fruit of the ‘Prunus’ genus that’s so beloved of folk in ‘developed’ countries...