Five ministers felled in CCM nominations

 

In Summary

Home Affairs minister Mathias Chikawe lost the Nachingwea nomination to new comer Hassan Masala who garnered 6,494 votes against the minister’s 5128 votes to record one of the greatest shock defeats of the day.

By citizen reporters

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Mahanga claims foul play, defects to Chadem

Monday, August 3, 2015

MP for Segerea and deputy minister for Labour and Employment Makongoro Mahanga displays to journalists at his residence in Segerea, Dar es Salaam yesterday, what he claimed were dubious CCM primary election voter cards seized by his agents. PHOTO |VENANCE NESTORY 

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Why You Should Never Give a Tanzanian Woman your Credit Card

August 3, 2015 Alpha Igogo Leave a comment

So 2015 is off to a good start. I feel pretty good about the choices I have made so far. Yes I know. Its only February.  So today I was thinking about the decisions NOT to make this year that I made in 2014. As I pondered and reminisced any poor decisions I had made, I realized that most were

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One year in: How Facebook’s Internet.org Free Basic Services are bringing people online

• 27 July 2015
• By @nkupamah.com

 

Facebook is celebrating the one-year anniversary of the introduction of the Internet.org app by hosting a Developer Day at iHub in Nairobi, Kenya on Monday, 27 July

*Internet.org brings new users onto mobile networks on average over 50% faster after launching free basic services

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GEN, Entrepreneurs’ Organization, Elumelu Foundation Join Forces to Spark Global Entrepreneurship

• 28 July 2015
• By @nkupamah.com

President Barack Obama with co-founders of the Global SPARK coalition, Jonathan Ortmans, CEO of the Global Entrepreneurship Network; Tony O. Elumelu, CON, Founder of the Tony Elumelu Foundation; and Sriram Bharatam, Chairman, Africa Growth Initiative, (EO); during the Global Entrepreneurship Summit in Nairobi, Kenya, over the weekend.

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Advanced technology increasingly shaping Africa’s financial sector

• 28 July 2015
• By @nkupamah.com

 

Sumesh Rahavendra, Vice President of Sales for DHL Express Sub Saharan Africa.

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I am counting my blessings!

I’ve never been without a place to live, food to eat, shoes to cover my feet, or clothes to wear; God has given me a blessed life and I am forever grateful! I only received a taste of born and live in a poor country where poverty is a way of living to others, but personally I have never been poor! I might struggled or been struggling financially with all the knowledge that in a blink of an eye that could be me but still I am not a poor person! I am counting my blessings!

In my life I have a lot of emotional struggles that I’ve been dealing with trying to overcome them in a daily basis but that hasn’t stop me from counting my blessings, because I realize that there are people who are poor struggle every day with no food, or place to live! I just saw the video clip from ITV news room where a man named Chacha who lives under the ground around Sam Nujoma road, Dar es alaam for 4 years now because he doesn’t have a place to live. Mr. Chacha is well educated and smart but things happen in life and he found himself with no place to live! I am counting my blessings!

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