Accra. Ghanaian footballer Christian Atsu has been rescued from the rubble of the earthquake that killed and injured thousands in Turkey and neighbouring Syria, Ghana's Football Association confirmed on Tuesday. Former Newcastle midfielder Atsu, 31, joined Turkish Super Lig side Hatayspor in September, based in the southern province of Hatay…
London. A UK judge on Tuesday sentenced a former policeman to life in jail, with a minimum term of 30 years, for dozens of rapes and sexual assaults in the latest case to shame London's Metropolitan Police force. Judge Bobbie Cheema-Grubb handed David Carrick 36 life sentences for a "monstrous"…
Hatay. Dozens of cargo containers were on fire for the second day running on Tuesday in Turkey's quake-hit southern port city of Iskenderun, local TV images showed. The blaze at the Iskenderun international port has raged since 5:00 pm (1400 GMT) Monday, when one of its containers toppled over from…
Form Four and Form Two national examination results came out recently, and for some, the results were not good. Hundreds of students got divisions four and zero. This may look okay if your child is not involved, but to the child and parent who have to face academic failure, especially…
WhatsApp has introduced a set of new features for its popular Status feature. The new features include a Private Audience Selector, which allows users to select the privacy settings for each status they share. Voice Status has been added, allowing users to record and share voice messages of up to…
Kilimanjaro. A sombre mood engulfed the Huruma Hospital grounds in Rombo Kilimanjaro yesterday where residents bade farewell to 12 people who died in a recent car accident in Tanga. So far, the death toll from the accident has risen to 20 after two more people were reported dead late on…
Dar es Salaam. Tanzania’s envoys in the CAF Confederation Cup, Young Africans (Yanga) leave today for Tunis, Tunisia, ahead of their first leg of the group D’s first match against US Monastir on Sunday. The team will be without their attacking midfielder Bernard Morrison who is nursing his injury. Morrison…
Dodoma. A company based in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates, Blue Carbon and the Tanzania Forest Services Agency have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) that marks the start of a collaboration in the promotion of sustainable forest management practices and reducing greenhouse gas emissions in Tanzania. The signing…
Food prices in Tanzania have doubled in a span of about 12 months. The sad fact is that people’s incomes have not increased in real terms during the same period. Despite the runaway food prices, however, officials have been touting the government’s ability to keep the headline inflation in check,…
Chadema’s plans for providing civic education on the new Constitution are spot on. It is high time people got to know what all the hubbub about the new Constitution is all about. The main opposition party says it will start educating the people on the new Constitution next month. The…