AROUND 7,000 pupils from various primary and secondary schools in Shiwang’andu district are reported to have abandoned lessons opting to be out in the bush collecting caterpillars (vinkubala), Education Minister Douglas Siakalima has said. Read...
Read MoreBy KASONDE KASONDE-THE Committee on Parastatals yesterday heard how the Zambia Postal Services (ZAMPOST) failed to prepare annual reports for several consecutive years, failed to audit financial statements for three years and allowed some K40million...
Read MoreBy MAPULANGA LIBINGA-A ZANACO Bank senior security officer in Ndola is in court for illegally making 33 transactions from 32 clients’ accounts and siphoning close to K300,000. The Ndola magistrate court found Samuel Nkandu, 38,...
Read MoreBy JOSEPH BANDA-VICE-PRESIDENT W.K Mutale-Nalumango is in Egypt to attend the 21st Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) Heads of State and Government Summit today. The summit is being held under the theme:...
Read MoreBy DOROTHY CHISI-FROM its initial establishment in 2012, Wonderful Group of Companies has grown as a Zambian industrial investment which has had an impact on both livelihoods of local people as well as the country’s...
Read MoreSophia Nalumba (not real name) sits in an Internet café beaming with excitement. She does not even seem to notice the people around her who are wondering what had made her happy.Without hesitating, she beckons...
Read MoreWHEN people look at Gender Based Violence (GBV), what comes to their mind is the physical abuse that is more common in their communities.This is because the attention on GBV has focused more on its...
Read MoreBy KENNEDY MUPESENI-THE Copperbelt Energy Corporation (CEC) has signed an engineering, procurement and construction contract with Sinohydro Corporation Zambia Limited for the 34 megawatt solar power project in Kitwe’s Riverside area.The upgrade will increase the...
Read MoreBy MAIMBOLWA MULIKELELA in Durban, South Africa-FORMER Nigerian president Olusegun Obasanjo has called for the creation of an emblematic ‘Made-in-Africa’ brand that will promote Intra African trade and boost international export of African products.Speaking during...
Read MoreBy Siphelele Dludla –AFRICA is positioning itself as the next hub for the multibillion-dollar automotive industry as a number of countries look to start implementing the continental free-trade agreement. The secretary general of the African...
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