While smoking of combustible tobacco products is on the decline in other parts of the world, countries in the East and Southern Africa region continue to record high levels of second hand smoking (SHS). This is despite documented evidence that exposure to secondhand tobacco smoke (SHS) was one of the …
Read More »Nigeria’s Ruling Party Candidate Bola Tinubu Wins Presidential Race
Ruling party candidate Bola Tinubu has been declared the winner of Nigeria’s disputed presidential election. The 70-year-old veteran politician got 37% of the vote, official results show. His main rival Atiku Abubakar polled 29%, and Labour’s Peter Obi 25%. Their parties had earlier dismissed the poll as a sham, and …
Read More »Robbers Target Bread Van In Chiweshe
Bindura Bureau A Bakers Inn bread van driver and his assistant were robbed of nearly US$2 000 at gun point by five unknown men in rural Chiweshe, on Sunday. Mashonaland Central police spokesperson, Inspector Milton Mundembe, confirmed. He said police had launched a man hunt and were appealing for any …
Read More »Police Beat Up Sanyati DDC During Unsanctioned Meeting
Kadoma BureauSanyati District Development Co-ordinator (DDC), Amigo Mhlanga was reportedly left nursing wounds after being assaulted by police officers clearing an unsanctioned meeting at Fitt Square, Kadoma on Monday. The DDC was caught up in the skirmishes which left several other people injured after gathering to meet him over the …
Read More »Teenage Girl Who Escaped From Abductors Traumatised After Witnessing Killing Of Three Others
A teenage Warren Park girl, who went missing last Tuesday, is said to have watched helplessly as three other kids were killed by the kidnappers. The cold-bloodied murders have left Tinotenda Tamangani (16), who was kidnapped from Warren Park 1 shops at around 5pm, traumatised. Tinotenda escaped and returned home …
Read More »Al Jazeera Documentary To Expose Graft By Top Govt Crooks
INTERNATIONAL TV news channel Al Jazeera is set to broadcast an investigation into corruption and money laundering in Zimbabwe involving government officials and their affiliates. A trailer released by the news channel features President Mnangagwa’s appointed ambassador at large, Uebert Angel. Journalist Hopewell Chin’ono wrote: “International news network Aljazeera will …
Read More »Unsustainable Unemployment Levels See Zimbabweans Overwhelming UK Work Visa Applications
Zimbabwe is among top five countries that registered the highest number of citizens granted work visas to the United Kingdom (UK) in the past two years, latest statistics by the UK’s Office of National Statistics show. Zimbabwe has over the past years recorded a mass exodus of skilled workers, who …
Read More »Govt Farm Seizure Challenge Too Political For Judge To Handle
High Court judge Munamato Mutevedzi has abandoned a case in which a Gweru farmer is challenging the seizure of her farm by government saying the matter was too political to be handled by his court. Mutevedzi said courts have no jurisdiction to hear cases involving seizure of land from Zimbabweans …
Read More »Welfare Minister In US$400k House Scandal
Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare minister Paul Mavima is caught up in a US$400 000 corrupt upmarket house deal in Quinnington, Borrowdale, Harare, involving the National Social Security Authority (Nssa) — under his control — and the ministry of Finance, an investigation by The NewsHawks has revealed. Nssa, constituted …
Read More »Nigeria Polls: Electoral Chief Issues Apology For Voting Delays
Nigeria’s electoral chief has apologised for delays being experienced by voters in some parts of the country. Mahmood Yakubu briefed the press at the central collation centre in the capital, Abuja, after widespread reports of late arrival of voting materials and electoral officers in some states. The head of the …
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