Author: Mkufi Dindai (Mkufi Dindai)

Tanzania set to increase fertilizer uptake to 500,000 tonnes.
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Tanzania set to increase fertilizer uptake to 500,000 tonnes.

Following the allocation of Tsh 150bn/- in the agriculture budget 2022/23 to subsidize fertilizer prices, the government plans to increase the amount of fertilizer in 2022/23 up to 500,000 tones. In the agricultural season of 2021/22, Tanzania utilized 360,000 tones of fertilizers. According to Dr. Ngailo, the Tanzania Fertilizers Regulatory Authority (TFRA), the farmer’s fertilizer...

President Samia promises bright future to artisanal miners.
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President Samia promises bright future to artisanal miners.

The minister for minerals, Hon Doto Biteko, under President Samia Suluhu, has announced a big favour for small miners all over the country.  A grace that is going to liberate them in life completely. This step has come after it was seen that the small miners and the entire mining sector had contributed significantly to...

Govt builds the first Tsh 130bn/- transmission line for power evacuation from JNHPP-Chalinze & Chalinze substation.
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Govt builds the first Tsh 130bn/- transmission line for power evacuation from JNHPP-Chalinze & Chalinze substation.

Tanzania’s President will use Tsh. Billion 130/- to construct the electricity substation Chalinze Line is a 400kV overhead line of 160km from Julius Nyerere Hydropower Station, Morogoro, Tanzania, to Chalinze, Pwani, Tanzania. The construction works on the JNHPP – Chalinze Line project commenced in 2021, and commissioning is expected in 2022. When completed, it will...

The government allocates Tsh 3bn/- for 500 scholarships to science students.
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The government allocates Tsh 3bn/- for 500 scholarships to science students.

In the coming academic year, the government has allocated a total of Tsh 573/- billion set to be disbursed among 205,500 students as loans and scholarships under the Higher Education Students Loans Board (HESLB). President Samia Suluhu’s government, to enhance imperativeness and the importance of science and technology to the country’s development, the government has...

This is the age you should let your child use social media.
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This is the age you should let your child use social media.

At what age should you let your child use social media? We are in the age of social media. We use our phones for entertainment, education, communication, financial transactions, etc. Kids as young as six months old are already watching ‘baby shark’ on YouTube. But the internet is a very dangerous place, with sexually explicit...

Prime Minister calls an emergency meeting over truck drivers’ boycott.
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Prime Minister calls an emergency meeting over truck drivers’ boycott.

Following the ongoing truck drivers’ boycott, the Prime Minister has called an emergency meeting at his office in Tanzania’s capital Dodoma today, July 26, 2022. The minister who attended the meeting includes the minister for internal affairs, Hon Hamad Masauni, TAMISEMI minister, Hon Innocent Bashungwa and the state minister for work, youth, employment and people...