Circuit City test Chipolopolo
DIANA CHIPEPO, Lusaka ZAMBIA 5 CIRCUIT 1 THE African Nations Championship (CHAN)-bound squad got a befitting send-off to Morocco with an emphatic victory over Division One side Circuit City in a...
View Article25 megawatts solar plant set for Mumbwa
MALUMO SILUMESI, Mumbwa GOVERNMENT plans to construct a 25 megawatts solar plant in Mumbwa in Central Province to cushion electricity challenges in the area. Mumbwa District Commissioner Felix Ndopu...
View ArticleIt’s no time for firms to close
GOVERNMENT has lately been preaching value addition as an ingredient in the economic diversification strategy. This is true because Zambia is endowed with abundant natural resources which can be an end...
View ArticleLiving positively with HIV
KELVIN MBEWE, Chilanga AT A time when anti-retroviral treatment was not available to the average person, Miriam Banda, 53, and her husband, tested positive to HIV. “It was in 2000 and we had a lot of...
View ArticlePastor fumes over lost tithe
PRISCILLA CHIPULU, PRISCILLA MWILA, Lusaka SOME pastors in Lusaka have protested against the directive by Government to stop churches from conducting services in cholera-affected areas, questioning how...
View ArticleTractor, agro equipment plant set
ESTHER MSETEKA, Lusaka THE Industrial Development Corporation (IDC) has completed designs for the K1 billion tractor and agricultural equipment plant to be located in the Lusaka South Multi-facility...
View ArticleForeign exchange through ‘timber’ exports
FELIX TEMBO IT IS great to learn that we pulled through to 2018 as a country. However, the year was never short of activities, some very unfortunate ones. As a country, we continue striving for...
View ArticleKeep good agro-policy strategies – PSDA
KELLY NJOMBO, Lusaka THE Private Sector Development Association (PSDA) has urged Government to maintain good policy strategies that will develop the agricultural value chain in the country. Association...
View ArticleAfDB okays energy loans fund
KALONDE NYATI, Lusaka THE African Development Bank (AfDB) has approved a US $30 million investment facility for Energy Inclusion Off-Grid Energy Access Fund (FEI OGEF) programme to provide loans to...
View Article‘ZAMBEEF committed to Zambia’s economic growth’
ESTHER MSETEKA, Lusaka ZAMBEEF Products Plc says it is committed to grow Zambia’s economy through a sustainable expansion retail network. Currently, Zambeef has about 160 outlets across the country and...
View ArticleCholera to affect budget plans
KALONDE NYATI, Lusaka THE Cholera epidemic is likely to affect effective implementation of the 2018 National Budget as resources may be diverted from the original spending towards addressing the...
View ArticleZambia’s trade balance to return to surplus
NOMSA NKANA, Lusaka ZAMBIA’S trade balance is this year expected to move out of deficit and return to surplus due to high productivity in the mining sector, the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) says....
View ArticleNeed a ride? Call Ulendo taxi
NKOLE NKOLE, Lusaka ONE night in 2016, Haggai Mandefu was unwell and desperately in need of a ride to a hospital. He tried calling the numbers of taxi drivers he knew but none of them was available to...
View ArticleClergy told to stop ministries of tithe
CHOMBA MUSIKA, Lusaka THREE church mother bodies have condemned pastors protesting against Government’s directive to stop churches from conducting services in cholera affected-areas. Some pastors in...
View ArticleLeave PF, too
STEVEN MVULA, Lusaka PRESIDENT Lungu says it is strange that some people do not want to serve under him in Government, but they have opted to remain in the party which he also heads, with others even...
View ArticleDump site shut to waste collectors
PRISCILLA MWILA, Lusaka THE Zambia Environmental Management Agency (ZEMA) has temporarily suspended waste picking at Chunga dumping site until further notice. And the Civil Service Commission (CSC) has...
View ArticleKafubu Water must up its services
Dear editor, LAST year was nothing to write home about in as far as provision of water by Kafubu Water and Sewerage Company is concerned. Luanshya residents opted for shallow wells to survive due to...
View ArticleDelta, Neria’s inject K2 million to stop cholera
CATHERINE MUMBA, Lusaka DELTA Energy Zambia Limited and Neria’s Investments Limited have donated K2 million to Government to help fight cholera. Speaking during the donation yesterday, Delta Energy...
View ArticleFrom waste to egg trays
LILLIAN BANDA, Lusaka THE outbreak of cholera and the subsequent clean-up of waste by the defence forces have helped the public appreciate how waste is mismanaged, particularly in Lusaka. It is...
View ArticleFake land vendor jailed 3 years
PRISCILLA CHIPULU, Lusaka THE Lusaka Magistrate’s Court has sentenced a 41-year-old man to three years imprisonment with hard labour for attempting to obtain money by false pretences. On July 25, 2014,...
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