Luanshya council refutes reports of house demolition
Luanshya Municipal Council has refuted media reports suggesting that the local authority has demolished 42 houses in Buntungwa area built on plots legally acquired. Council Public Relations Manager,...
View ArticleLuanshya council refutes reports of house demolition
Luanshya Municipal Council has refuted media reports suggesting that the local authority has demolished 42 houses in Buntungwa area built on plots legally acquired. Council Public Relations Manager,...
View ArticleCooperatives advised to diversify
—-Chief Chitambo of the LaLa people in Chitambo district has urged co-operatives to be resourceful and supply their farm products to boarding schools and hospitals in order to raise funds and be...
View ArticleCooperatives advised to diversify
—-Chief Chitambo of the LaLa people in Chitambo district has urged co-operatives to be resourceful and supply their farm products to boarding schools and hospitals in order to raise funds and be...
View ArticleRoadblocks for offensive weapons – Kamukoshi
Police in Western Province have said roadblocks mounted in Longe area and at Katunda junction in Kaoma are meant to curb a proliferation of offensive weapons into the area. Reacting to opposition...
View Article‘Arsonist’ burns children to death
TWO children aged 3 and 5 years have been burnt to ashes after a house in which they were sleeping was set on fire by unknown people in Nchelenge. Luapula Province police commissioner Malcolm Mulenga,...
View ArticleSTATE CHIDES HH OVER CONSTITUTION
CHIEF Government spokesperson Joseph Katema says it is baseless for UPND leader Hakainde Hichilema to suggest that the Patriotic Front is unwilling to enact a new constitution because it wants to...
View ArticleSAMPA TO EMPOWER MORE YOUTHS
MATERO Member of Parliament Miles Sampa is spending the last half of his K500, 000 gratuity on another bunch of taxis to be distributed to youths in the other 10 provinces.Mr Sampa has signed a...
View ArticleUPND cadres ‘beat’ chief
OPPOSITION United Party for National Development (UPND) members allegedly beat up a chief and his wife in Luampa on Friday as they clashed with members of the ruling Patriotic Front (PF) ahead of...
View ArticleIndigenous businesses increase in N/Western province
—Indigenous businesses with capital exceeding US $ 100,000 have recorded an increase in Zambia’s North Western province. This is according to a study conducted by Belgium’s Ghent University which aimed...
View ArticlePF accuse UPND of using Mapatizya in Mangango
The opposition United party for National Development (UPND) has condemned in the strongest term the violence that is allegedly being orchestrated by the ruling Patriotic Front (PF) cadres ahead of the...
View ArticleZambia bans travelers from countries hit by Ebola virus
(Reuters) – Zambia said it would restrict entry of travelers from countries affected by the Ebola virus and would ban Zambians from traveling to those countries, in one of the strictest moves yet by a...
View ArticleLimps of hope: Hon. Chilangwa, stigma and hope for Zambians living with...
There is no evidence to suggest that Nevers Mumba had, two weeks ago, approved of the action by MMD party cadres to sing lyrics mocking the disability of Hon. Nickson Chilangwa. In this article, I make...
View ArticleMMD CONFIDENT OF SCOOPING BATOKA WARD
THE MMD in Southern Province is confident of scooping the Batoka Ward Local Government by-election in Choma District slated for August 19, this year.Party provincial chairperson, Oliver Pelete said MMD...
View ArticleNGOs URGE GOVERNMENT TO RAISE TAXES ON TOBACCO AND SAVE LIVES
A consortium of public health NGO’s have called on Zambian government to raise excise tax on tobacco in order to achieve the public health goal of reducing the death and disease caused by tobacco use....
View ArticleZambia: The Quest for Socioeconomic Development
By Henry Kyambalesa. With a Human Development Index (HDI) score of 0.561, Zambia is currently ranked 141st out of 187 countries – a rank that falls within the ‘medium human development’ category. And...
View ArticleTRAIN OPERATIONS RESUME IN ZAMBIA
MPIKA, Friday 8th August 2014 We take this opportunity to confirm that the Tanzania Zambia Railways Authority (TAZARA) unionised workers in Zambia who have been on strike since 22 July 2014 have called...
View ArticleObama speaks out over Egypt¹s jailing of Al Jazeera journalists
Thursday, 7 August: The President of the United States, Barack Obama, has once again called for the release of Al Jazeera English journalists, jailed for seven years in Cairo on 23 June this year....
View ArticleNAREP urges MPs to set up an All Party Parliamentary Group for Corporate...
NAREP Head of International Relations Pascal Nsokolo has written to the Speaker of the National Assembly urging MPs to consider setting up an All Party Parliamentary Group for Corporate Social...
View ArticleSIX parties express interest in Solwezi Central by-election
SIX political parties have expressed interest in contesting the forthcoming Solwezi Central parliamentary by-election slated for September 11 this year. The six are the Patriotic Front (PF), United...
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