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  • Just In: ‘Buga’ crooner Kizz Daniel arrested in Tanzania [Video]

    Just In: ‘Buga’ crooner Kizz Daniel arrested in Tanzania [Video]

    Rave of the moment Buga crooner, Kizz Daniel has been arrested by the Tanzanian police over his alleged refusal to perform at his concert on Sunday, August 7, 2022.

    The singer who arrived the country earlier in the day reportedly refused to perform due to unavailability of his clothes.

    video shared online shows the moment some fans vandalized the stage while many others angrily left the concert.

    Fans who registered their grievances on social media claimed they paid as much as $5000 for tables just to see the singer perform live.

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  • Osinbajo discusses climate change, coups d’etat, others in Tanzania

    Osinbajo discusses climate change, coups d’etat, others in Tanzania

    Vice President Yemi Osinbajo and his Tanzanian counterpart, Philip Mpango, on Sunday, in Arusha, Tanzania, held bilateral talks.

    The two spoke on issues ranging from climate change and technology to deterring unconstitutional changes of government in Africa.

    Osinbajo is in Tanzania to speak at inaugural session of the African Court of Human and Peoples’ Rights for the year 2022 scheduled for Feb. 28.

    They also discussed issues of interest to both Nigeria and Tanzania, including infrastructure development, trade and investment, technology, climate change and democracy.

    According to Osinbajo, ECOWAS has experienced in just under a year, four coups d’etat including attempts.

    He said that it was disturbing because such things ought to have been put behind the region.

    “It is something that we think has to do with more cooperation. AU has been very forthcoming (in condemnation) in saying that we cannot tolerate unconstitutional seizures of power.

    “But sanctioning these coupists without any proper “teeth” has not been particularly effective.

    “There might be a need for us to reach out to some of the regional bodies, development financial institutions such as the World Bank, IMF, and the EU.

    ” The EU has been quite responsive but we think that we can do a lot more just in terms of cooperation, so there is an effective deterrent if everyone agrees that undemocratic change of government is unacceptable.”

    On climate change and the attendant goal of net-zero emissions, Osinbajo said the major challenge was that the wealthier countries were abandoning fossil fuels and gas and some of them were already defunding gas projects.

    He said it was important to keep focus on the transition to net-zero emissions, but also important for the world to know that Africa had two challenges – Climate Change and development.

    “We in Africa will run into trouble because gas projects are important even for the transition.

    “It is important for us to come together to oppose any situation where the wealthier countries insist that on account of going towards net-zero emissions in 2050, we should then abandon gas which is one of the major sources of energy for industry and clean cooking.

    ” We think that the wealthier countries are asking us to do what they didn’t do – use renewable energy for industry.

    “While we are interested in ensuring that we meet net-zero emissions target, we are also interested in ensuring that we develop.”

    On the place of technology in economic growth, Osinbajo said that growth would be technology-led, adding that from 2016, six Nigerian companies had become UNICORNS – companies worth over a billion dollars.

    “All these companies started in 2016, including Flutterwave which was recently valued at over 3billion dollars.

    “Technology is very important to us and we have investments in broadband infrastructure across the country and consider it to be fundamental to our economic growth.

    “Even with what we have done, it is incredible how many new businesses in technology have come up, startups springing up every day.

    ” It is an exciting time for us, especially for those investing in technology startups across all sectors – education, health, and FinTech.

    “There is also financial inclusion because there were many parts of the country that banks didn’t bother to go to, but with technology, we are able to reach all of those places,” he said.

    On his part, Mpango commended West African leaders for their efforts to halt the menace of coups d’etat in the sub-region and also agreed that Africa can achieve more working in unison.

    He said that climate change was an example of one area leaders on the continent needed to work together to address.

    “The apparent wish by developed countries to abandon fossil fuel is worrisome because we are still struggling to provide the basics.

    ” Our forests are disappearing because our people are still forced to use firewood for cooking, if we abandon gas energy, where do we go to?”

    The Tanzanian vice president thanked Osinbajo for accepting the invitation of the African Court to be the guest speaker at the formal opening of the Court’s 2022 Judicial Year.

    Both leaders also agreed that the relationship between their countries had been notable over the years, adding however, that there was room for more improvement.

    The two leaders agreed that arrangements for the Joint Commission between both countries should proceed.

    Mpango recalled Nigeria’s role in the fight to end apartheid in Southern Africa.

    “Nigeria never abandoned her brothers and sisters in South Africa.

    He added that both countries have been working together and supporting each other internationally since 1962 including at the United Nations and in Africa.

  • Osinbajo to address African Court in Arusha, Tanzania

    Osinbajo to address African Court in Arusha, Tanzania

    Vice President Yemi Osinbajo will depart Abuja on Sunday for Arusha, Tanzania, to attend the formal opening of the 2022 Judicial Year of the African Court for Human and Peoples’ Rights.

    Osinbajo’s Spokesman Laolu Akande, in a statement, said the vice president had been designated as the guest speaker at the inaugural event to be attended by leaders from across the continent and beyond.

    In 2021, at its 15th anniversary, the court resolved it would convene a solemn ceremony at the commencement of the first of its four sessions of each year to mark the official opening of the judicial year.

    The ceremony will be a means of enhancing the court’s visibility and engaging as many stakeholders as possible.

    Osinbajo will speak on the theme “The African Court and the Africa we want.”

    The overall objective of the ceremony, according to the court, is to provide a forum for interaction with member states, key judicial authorities, inter-governmental, semi-governmental and non-state actors; exchange of ideas; and reflection on the work of the court for the year.

    “Eventually, the event will expectedly spur an enhanced understanding by stakeholders of the work of the court, and an increased interaction with key judicial authorities on the continent and key stakeholders,” the statement said.

    The African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights was established pursuant to the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the establishment of an African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights, adopted in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso on June 9, 1998.

    The protocol came into force on Jan. 25 2004.

    The court became operational in 2006 and officially started working in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and later moved to its current seat in Arusha, Tanzania.

    The mission of the court is to enhance the protective mandate of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights by strengthening the human rights protection system in Africa.

    The court will ensure respect for and compliance with the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights, as well as other international human rights instruments, through judicial decisions.

    The court is made up of justices drawn from the continent by election and is currently led by Lady Justice Imani Aboud, as its President. She is from Tanzania.

    Others include Justice Blaise Tchikaya, Vice President, Republic of Congo, Justice Ben Kioko, Kenya, Justice Rafaâ Achour, Tunisia, Lady Justice Ntyam Mengue, Cameroon and Lady Justice Marie Thérèse Mukamulisa, Rwanda.

    Lady Justice Tujilane Chizumila, Malawi, Lady Justice Bensaoula Chafika, Algeria, Lady Justice Stella Anukam -Nigeria, Justice Dumisa Ntsebeza, South Africa and Justice Sacko Modibo, Mali will also be in attendance.

    While in Tanzania, the vice president will also hold bilateral talks with his counterpart, Dr Philip Mpango.

    Osinbajo is expected back in Abuja on March 1.

  • TRAGIC! Lions kill three children in Tanzania

    TRAGIC! Lions kill three children in Tanzania

    Three young children were killed by lions near Tanzania’s world-renowned Ngorongoro wildlife reserve as they went to look for lost cattle, police said on Thursday.

    The youngsters aged between nine and 11 had arrived home from school on Monday and gone into a forest near the Ngorongoro Conservation Area to search for the missing animals, Arusha police chief Justine Masejo said.

    “That is when the lions attacked and killed three children while injuring one,” he added.

    Ngorongoro in northern Tanzania is a World Heritage Site that is home to wildlife including big cats such as lions, cheetahs and leopards.

    “I would like to urge the nomadic communities around the reserved areas to take precautions against fierce animals especially when they task their children to take care of the livestock. That will help to protect the children and their families,” Masejo said.

    Tanzania allows some communities such as the Maasai, who graze their livestock alongside wild animals, to live within national parks.

    However, they are often in conflict with animals such as lions and elephants which can attack people, livestock and destroy crops.

    Last year, Tanzania relocated 36 lions from the Serengeti National Park after attacks on humans and cattle from the surrounding communities.

     

  • Dangote assures Tanzania govt of increased investment

    Dangote assures Tanzania govt of increased investment

    … Promises to woo more investors to Tanzania

    President of Dangote group, Aliko Dangote on Monday assured the new President of Tanzania, Samia Suhulu that Dangote group will increase its investment in the country and inform investors all over the world, that Tanzania is now a place to invest. Dangote currently has invested about $770million in Tanzania.

    He lauded the new President investors’ friendly policies since she assumed office and insisted that while the Government’s role is to provide a conducive environment for investment, it is the role of private sectors to create jobs that will eventually lead to the growth and development of any nation.

    Dangote said: “I congratulate her for the shift changes that she is doing here in Tanzania and also to assure her that we will continue to invest in Tanzania to help create jobs, wealth and prosperity for the people of Tanzania. I think she needs that support and we have reassured her that we will continue to establish here in Tanzania to support what she is doing…she can only do policies, it is not the job of government to create jobs. We will help her to invest and create jobs in Tanzania. We are looking at other areas, maybe fertilizer and other investment opportunities here in Tanzania but you can be rest assured that, with the discussion that we had with her, we will look for other opportunities to help her to make sure that this her vision and dream will come through.”

    Promising to be a talk to investors about the prospects in Tanzania, Dangote said “I think the business environment here has changed dramatically, I mean, things are opening up and I can assure you that not only here in Tanzania, but I will now be the champion of Tanzania wherever I go and tell people that things have changed and that everybody should come back and invest heavily here in Tanzania”

    President Samia praised Dangote for his significant investment and assured him that. Her led government will make sure his investments and that of other investors are protected and supported for the benefit of both parties.

    Dangote’s 3.0Mta plant in Mtwara – about 400km from Dar es Salaam – was commissioned in December 2015 and is the largest cement factory in Tanzania. With about 500 million tonnes of limestone reserves, enough for 149 years, the plant is capable of producing large amounts of high-quality 32.5 and 42.5 grade cements to meet local market needs at competitive prices, as well as surrounding export markets by sea.

    It would be recalled that Dangote in 2019 said his cement company was able to sustain 54,000 jobs in four African countries, where the company has its operations. The countries were: Nigeria, Ethiopia, Senegal, and South Africa.

    Dangote Group is the highest employer of labor in Nigeria, outside the Federal Government, and with its Refinery project coming up, the company will have more than 100,000 Nigerians under his employment.

  • Tanzanian president picks Finance Minister Mpango as VP

    Tanzanian president picks Finance Minister Mpango as VP

    Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan on Tuesday appointed Minister for Finance and Planning Philip Mpango as the country’s Vice-President.

    The appointment of Mpango as Vice-President was unanimously approved by the parliament sitting in the capital Dodoma.

    Speaker of the National Assembly Job Ndugai announced that Mpango got 363 votes from all the Members of Parliament who were present in the House chamber.

    Speaking shortly before parliament endorsed him, Mpango said the best way to honor the late President Magufuli was to oversee what he had stood for, including sound management of the country’s resources and implementation of flagship projects.

    “I am from a poor family and my task ahead will be fighting for the rights of poor people in this country,” said Mpango.

    He said another task ahead will be to ensure that Tanzania moved from the lower-middle-income status it attained in 2020 to the higher-middle income class within a short period of time.

    “This is possible if Tanzanians decide to do so,” said Mpango to thunderous applause from the over 300 lawmakers in the House chamber.

    Mpango was appointed Minister for Finance and Planning in 2016.

    He was born on July 14, 1957.

  • BREAKING: Tanzania’s first female president sworn in

    BREAKING: Tanzania’s first female president sworn in

    Samia Suluhu Hassan was on Friday sworn-in as Tanzania’s first female president.

    The swearing-in took place two days after Tanzanian Government announced President John Magufuli’ s death. Suluhu Hassan was the Vice President.

    She was sworn-in by Chief Justice Ibrahim Juma at the State House in the commercial capital Dar es Salaam.

    This has made her the first woman in Tanzania and East Africa to hold the highest office.

    The 61-year-old statistician, who hails from the island of Zanzibar, joined politics in 2000 and quickly rose up the ranks, holding various ministerial posts.

    Suluhu Hassan was elected Vice Chair of the Constitutional Assembly in 2014 and shortly after became Magufuli’s running mate for the 2015 general election, which led her to become vice president.

    According to the constitution, Suluhu Hassan should hold the country’s highest office until the next election in 2025.

    Magufuli’s death was accompanied by persistent rumours that the statesman died of COVID-19 after he had been absent from public view without explanation since the end of February.

    The 61-year-old had denied the existence of novel coronavirus in the East African country.

    He downplayed the virus’ threat, recommending prayers and steam baths, and urged the Health Ministry to be cautious with vaccines developed abroad, questioning their quick development.

    The former German colony with a population of around 58 million has not published any new coronavirus infection figures since May 20.

  • Samia Suluhu Hassan becomes Tanzania’s first female president

    Samia Suluhu Hassan becomes Tanzania’s first female president

    Samia Suluhu Hassan will become from today Tanzania’s new president, following the death of President John Magufuli on Wednesday.

    She will be making history, as the first woman to be president in Tanzania and in east Africa.

    Hassan, now 61, had also made history, when she became the first female vice-president in 2015.

    She will complete Magufuli’s five-year second term, which he began in November 2020.

    President Hassan was born in the semi-autonomous archipelago of Zanzibar on 27 January, 1960.

    And she now makes another record as the first Tanzanian president from Zanzibar.

    After completing her secondary education in 1977, she got married in 1978 and now has four children, one of whom, her second daughter, is a parliamentarian in Zanzibar.

    Hassan’s first job after secondary school, was as a clerk in the Ministry of Planning and Development.

    According to a profile published in Wikipedia, she pursued a number of short-courses on a part-time basis.

    In 1986, she graduated from the Institute of Development Management (present-day Mzumbe University) with an advanced diploma in public administration.

    Upon graduation, she was employed on a project funded by the World Food Programme.

    Between 1992 and 1994, she attended the University of Manchester and graduated with a postgraduate diploma in economics.

    In 2015, she obtained her MSc in Community Economic Development via a joint-programme between the Open University of Tanzania and the Southern New Hampshire University.

    In 2000, she decided to join politics.

    She was elected as a special seat member to the Zanzibar House of Representatives and was appointed a minister by President Amani Karume.

    She was the only high-ranking woman minister in the cabinet and was “looked down on” by her male colleagues because of her gender.

    She was re-elected in 2005 and was re-appointed as a minister in another portfolio.

    In 2010, she sought election to the National Assembly, standing in the parliamentary constituency of Makunduchi and winning by more than 80%.

    President Jakaya Kikwete appointed her as the Minister of State for Union Affairs.

    In 2014, she was elected as the Vice Chairperson of the Constituent Assembly tasked with drafting the country’s new constitution.

    In July 2015, CCM’s presidential nominee John Magufuli chose her as his running mate for the 2015 election, making her the first female running mate in the party’s history.

    She subsequently became the first female vice-president in the history of the country upon Magufuli’s victory in the election.

    After Magufuli’s death on 17 March 2021, Suluhu automatically became the 6th President of Tanzania, the first Zanzibari president and the country’s first female president.

    Hassan was the chief mourner for Magufuli as she announced his death.

    She said Magufuli was admitted on March 6 to Jakaya Kikwete Cardiac Institute for heart problems and discharged the next day.

    A week later he felt bad and was rushed to Mzena Hospital where he was getting treatment under supervision of doctors from the cardiac institute, she said.

    “Dear Tanzanians, it is sad to announce that today 17 March 2021 around 6 p.m. we lost our brave leader, President John Magufuli who died from heart disease at Mzena hospital in Dar es Salaam where he was getting treatment,” she said on state broadcaster TBC.

  • Jonathan shocked over death of Tanzania President, Magufuli

    Jonathan shocked over death of Tanzania President, Magufuli

    Nigeria’s former President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan is shocked by the death of Tanzania’s President, John Magufuli.

    Magufuli died on Wednesday as announced by Vice President Samia Suluhu Hassan.

    Magufuli was 61. He was Tanzania’s first president to die while in office.

    His death was announced after more than two-week absence from public life, that led to speculation about his health.

    The opposition said he was struck with COVID-19, but VP Hassan said he died from the heart disease that had plagued him for a decade.

    Reacting to his death on Thursday morning, Jonathan said “A bright star has been plucked from the African continent.

    “President John Magufuli of Tanzania was a man I knew quite well, due to my frequent visits to Tanzania for the advancement of democracy in Africa.

    ”I found in him a true partner in democracy and a patriot who loved his country and did his best to steer the ship of state away from the brink and to the bank of the river of peace, progress and prosperity.

    “My condolences to his family, especially First Lady Janeth Magufuli, and their children, as well as the government and people of Tanzania.

    “My thoughts go out also to his party, Chama Cha Mapinduzi. May God grant his soul repose, and may He comfort the grieving nation.”

  • BREAKING: Tanzanian President, John Magufuli is dead

    BREAKING: Tanzanian President, John Magufuli is dead

    Tanzanian President John Magufuli has died, the country’s vice president has announced on state television, after weeks of uncertainty over his health and whereabouts.

    In a televised address to the nation late on Wednesday, Vice President Samia Suluhu said the 61-year-old president had died of a “heart condition”, which he has suffered for a decade, at a hospital in Dar-Es-Salaam.

    TheNewsGuru.com, TNG reports that Magufuli had first been briefly admitted to the Jakaya Kikwete Cardiac Institute on March 6, but was subsequently discharged, Hassan said. But he rushed to hospital again on March 14 after feeling unwell.

    A vocal COVID-19 sceptic, Magufuli had last appeared in public on February 27and top government officials had denied that he was in ill health, even as speculation swirled online that he was sick and possibly incapacitated from illness.

    Magufuli had long downplayed the severity of COVID-19, urging Tanzanians to pray, use steam inhalation and embrace local remedies to protect themselves from the respiratory disease.

    Tanzania stopped releasing infection numbers in April 2020, weeks before Magufuli declared the country coronavirus-free in June through divine intervention.

    He refused to wear a face-mask or take lockdown measures. But a week before he was last seen, Magufuli conceded the virus was still circulating, after the vice president of semi-autonomous Zanzibar was revealed to have died of COVID-19.

    Nicknamed the “Bulldozer”, Magufuli was elected in 2015 on promises to tackle corruption and boost infrastructure development.

    He won a second term in a disputed poll last year.