THIS year is seeing me getting addicted to a bad habit: that of using mobile money services. Now, relatives and friends, young and old, and what have you, can easily sms you that they are in big trouble (like for instance, they are being thrown out of their accommodation) and could you please send them some money via X-Pesa? For the un-initiated, pesa (from Spanish, peso?), means money in Swahili.
HEAD lice are tiny insects that live on the head and in the hair of both children and adults. Their eggshells are called nits. Lice are highly infectious and are easily passed between children who tend to play or work closely with their heads held together, at school or elsewhere. An infestation with head lice is medically known as pediculosis.
WE have just emerged from floods, which swept hundreds of families and rendered them homeless. The affected people are now living in makeshift camps having moved from schools, which had housed them in the aftermath of the tragedy.
I live in Musoma in a very historic area surrounded by various structures that were built or came into existence decades ago. I have also inherited the area which has passed over many generations and our family history is well known here. About four months ago officers from the Antiquities department of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Tourism came to our place to inspect what they said was a monument in my property. I wish to know what my rights are if there is indeed a monument on my site.
ECONOMISTS, statisticians and other highbrows never cease to discombobulate and amaze me with their sophistry. Take, for instance, the rather controversial -- ‘delicate’ if you insist -- issue of the proposed ‘Monetary Union’ for the five member countries of the burgeoning East African Community (EAC): Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi and Tanzania.
Ingestion of aspirin and similar drugs (salicylates) can lead to rapid poisoning due to an overdose. The dose that is necessary to produce rapid poisoning, however, is quite large.
In the political cream of Tanzania we have a minister (let's call him X), who is a professor in electrical engineering. In his earlier studies, he no doubt covered subjects such as power generation, transmission, electrical drives, controls, etc.
When was the last time you felt sick enough to want to stay in bed? Hopefully such feeling occurs once in a blue moon. Some friends and relatives are such doubting Thomases that unless you carry an IV drip on your back they will not believe you are seriously ill.
RECENT events have conjured some old memories. When I was an adolescent and below that, we would regularly go visit and stay with grandma in Tanga.
