CEEC targets 15,000 new jobs
MWILA NTAMBI, Mansa THE Citizens Economic Empowerment Commission (CEEC) has targeted to create about 15,000 jobs in Luapula Province by 2021 through supporting industrial yards and district value...
View ArticleCop arrested for beating father
BUTTYSON KANDIMBA, Solwezi AN OFFICER at Solwezi Central Police Station has been arrested for allegedly beating up his 79-year-old father whom he accused of being a wizard. North-Western Province...
View ArticleCladding of buildings versus fire safety
VIOLET MENGO, Lusaka ON JUNE 14, 2017, flames ripped through a west London tower block killing at least 80 people and injuring dozens more. A devastating fire started at Grenfell Tower and emergency...
View ArticleLungu approves more houses for cops
NKOMBO KACHEMBA, Kitwe PRESIDENT Lungu has approved phase two of the countrywide construction of 2,200 houses for police officers. Under phase one, Government is building 2,350 houses for the Ministry...
View ArticleState to help students stranded in India
CHOMBA MUSIKA, Lusaka GOVERNMENT has directed Zambia’s High Commissioner to India Judith Kapijimpanga to conduct a comprehensive review of the circumstances under which 36 Zambian students are stranded...
View Article‘Hold on to maize’
KELVIN CHONGO and CAROLINE KALOMBE, Lusaka THE Zambia National Farmers Union (ZNFU) has urged farmers countrywide to hold on to their maize until it has a meeting with the Food Reserve Agency (FRA) to...
View ArticleMeanwood killing: Wife’s family abandons body
NANCY SIAME, Lusaka A DISPUTE has erupted between the family of the slain 30-year-old Lusaka wife and that of her suspected killer husband following the failure by the two parties to raise K20,000...
View ArticleShould FRA revisit K60 maize prize?
ESTHER MSETEKA, Lusaka IN THE past few weeks, various stakeholders in the agriculture sector have called on the Food Reserve Agency (FRA) to revisit the K60 maize price saying this will discourage...
View ArticleParents should not embarrass Zambia
WE ARE deeply saddened and concerned by reports that 36 Zambian students are stranded in India. According to Zambia’s High Commissioner to India Judith Kapijimpanga, most of these students are stranded...
View ArticleMineral Junxion Zambia to set up copper-processing plant
TRYNESS TEMBO, Lusaka ABOUT US$ 3million has been set aside to construct a mineral processing plant by Mineral- Junxion Zambia Limited to process copper and cobalt slag at the dumpsite owned by Konkola...
View ArticleWFP launches post-harvest loss programme
KELLY NJOMBO, Lusaka WORLD Food Programme (WFP) Zambia has launched a new post-harvest loss (PHL) reduction initiative to improve smallholder farmers’ income and food security by raising awareness on...
View ArticleCopper prices highest in 2 years
HONE SIAME, Lusaka COPPER prices on the London Metal Exchange (LME) have hit US$6,325 per tonne for the first time in two years with stakeholders urging mining companies to recall workers they laid off...
View ArticleStanbic leads way to change face of Zambia
MUMBA MWANSA, Lusaka IF YOU have never heard of Mwaiseni Stores, Supa Loaf, ZCBC or the Dairy Produce Board of Zambia, it’s probably because you are fairly new in the country or perhaps you were born...
View ArticleHH was wrong, says Kanganja
CAROLINE KALOMBE, Lusaka INSPECTOR-GENERAL of Police Kakoma Kanganja testified yesterday that opposition leader Hakainde Hichilema and his entourage were not authorised to use Limulunga Road in Mongu...
View ArticleZambia on recovery path
KALONDE NYATI, Lusaka LAST year, this time around, Zambia’s economy was under pressure with high inflation, high interest rates and weak Kwacha tight liquidity among other challenges characterising the...
View ArticleCotton transforming farmers’ lives
NANCY MWAPE, Lusaka COTTON is one of the industries in Zambia with the potential to increase rural smallholder incomes, improve household food security for farmers and contribute to the country’s...
View ArticleUTH referrals reduced, says Chilufya
MWAPE MWENYA, Lusaka GOVERNMENT says the upgrading of Chilenje and Matero clinics to level-one hospitals has reduced referrals to the University Teaching Hospital (UTH) from 13,604 in 2016 to 2,900 in...
View ArticleKwacha stable all the way
HONE SIAME, Lusaka THE Ministry of Finance says the Kwacha will remain stable for the rest of 2017 and has urged the business community to maximise on the country’s economic gains to grow their...
View ArticleMulenga embraces private media
STEVEN MVULA and EVARISTO MULENGA, Lusaka MINISTER of Information and Broadcasting Services Kampamba Mulenga has advised private media houses in the country against viewing Government as their enemy....
View ArticleHealth post sends SOS
ELIZABETH CHATUVELA, Mongu ILUTE Health Post in Mongu has run out of some essential medicines which were last supplied to the institution in May this year. The facility, which serves a population of...
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