Mulungushi lecturers down tools
LECTURERS at Mulungushi University in Kabwe have withdrawn their labour and this has affected lectures for distance education students currently under residential school at the main campus. The...
View Article110,739 pupils make it to G10
A TOTAL of 110,739 pupils out of 285,636 who sat for Grade nine examinations in 2013 have passed to Grade 10. The results indicate a progression rate of 37.10 per cent. They also represent an increase...
View ArticleAngry residents set ablaze 10 vehicles in Garden House
About ten vehicles are reported to have been set ablaze at Chams Bakery in Garden house area in Lusaka by angry residents. The action by the residents follows a demolition exercise conducted by the...
View ArticleGovt terminates Petauke road contract
GOVERNMENT has terminated the K11 million contract awarded to Plinth Technical Works Limited of Lusaka for failure to carry out road works in Petauke District. Local Government and Housing Permanent...
View ArticleCBU exams will go as planned – Dr. Phiri
Education Minister, John Phiri has dismissed media reports that in excess of 1,500 Copperbelt University students have been barred from sitting for the 2013/14 Sessional examinations which will...
View ArticleTIZ laments continued abuse of public funds
Transparency International Zambia (TIZ) has bemoaned the continued losses and misappropriation of public funds revealed in the 2012 Auditor General’s report which has just been released. TIZ Executive...
View ArticleGeneral Sakala explains K500m expenditure
FORMER Zambia Air Force (ZAF) commander Andrew Sakala says he would have been arrested by the police if he had embezzled K500 million which he used for intelligence operatives. This is in a matter in...
View ArticleLET’S READ CAMPAIGN LAUNCHED
THE Ministry of Education, Science, Vocational Training and Early Education has launched the Let’s Read Zambia campaign with a goal to create one million new readers by 2016. Education, Science,...
View ArticleZAF pilots to be buried today
TWO Zambia Air Force (ZAF) officers, Major Marvey Mabvuto Musukwa and officer cadet Mwila Muma Mubanga, who died when their plane crashed in Livingstone on Wednesday, will be buried today. Maj Musukwa...
View ArticlePF castigates Grand Coalition on Constitution making process
The Patriotic Front in Eastern Province has castigated Grant Coalition for Civil Society Organizations for what it terms unwarranted attacks on government over the Constitution making process. Austin...
View ArticleEastern teachers owed K42 million
The Ministry of Education owes K42 million in outstanding allowances to teachers in Eastern Province. Provincial Education Officer, Thomas Mwanza, said the outstanding allowances include rural...
View ArticleZACA points government towards working on high living cost of Zambians
The Zambia Consumer Association (ZACA) has advised government to pay particular attention to the cost of living of the Zambian people in 2014. As compared to last year where Zambians where subjected to...
View ArticleVEEP UPBEAT ON SALARIES HARMONISATION
VICE-PRESIDENT Guy Scott has said the Government has continued with the exercise of harmonising conditions of service for public service workers. Addressing teachers at Chipata Day Secondary School in...
View Article2012 unvouched expenditure, blatant broad day robbery – ZYAFAC
The Zambia Youths in the Fight Against Corruption (ZYAFAC) has described as blatant broad day robbery the increase of unvouched government expenditure from the 77 billion kwacha recorded in 2011 to 553...
View ArticleNWASCO rebrands to improve service delivery
Government has reiterated its commitment to increasing access to clean and safe drinking water to urban and peri urban areas from the current 83.5 percent to 84 percent. Mines, Energy and Water...
View ArticleMothers’ shelters to offer short courses
GOVERNMENT has earmarked mothers’ shelters in hospitals as training centres for healthcare and agriculture. Vice-President Guy Scott said the shelters are vital in maternal care service hence the...
View ArticlePublic finance management controls under PF have broke down – Mutesa
The opposition Zambians for Empowerment and Development (ZED) has observed that the increase of unvouched government expenditure as revealed in the 2012 Auditor General’s report spells a breakdown in...
View ArticleThe PF has created a political hog-wash in the nation – Mpombo
Former Defense Minister George Mpombo has described as political hog wash the situation that is being created in the country by the conflicting statements that government and the Technical Committee...
View ArticleKK appointed peace envoy
THE Centre for Peace Initiatives in Africa (CPIA) based in Harare Zimbabwe has recognised first president Kenneth Kaunda as an embodiment of peace and appointed him the organisation’s envoy of peace....
View ArticleLuapula PS takes on Nyatsi
Luapula Province Permanent Secretary (PS), Chanda Kasolo, has vowed to meet Inyatsi contractors over the quality of road works done on the Mansa–Chembe road. Mr Kasolo’s intention to meet Inyatsi...
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