YOUR BUSINESS IS OUR BUSINESS: Retiring from Tanzania’s presidency is good business

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…! 

>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...

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.

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.

In all fairness, allow me, o’esteemed reader, to begin this palaver by congratulating former President Benjamin Mkapa on his 77th birthday anniversary today, November 12. Having got this off my chest without having to take off my shirt, allow me to proceed...

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 .

On Sept. 17 this year, the US Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) Board reportedly decided to ‘continue withholding’ disbursement of $472.8 million (roughly Sh1.04 trillion) to Tanzania.