IT is a blessing that Zambia has continued observing the annual National Day of Prayer which began in 2015, exactly eight years ago.There were fears in some quarters that with the departure from the government...

FINALLY, the Road Development agency RDA has signed a concession agreement under the public private partnership financing model for the development of the Sakania border post access road and 61 kilometre Ndola-Mufulira road.The Public Private...

THE call by the Zambia Conference of Catholic Bishops (ZCCB) not to politicise the Independence Day is timely and welcome.It is timely in that everything now has become political at the expense of unity and...

COUNTRIES world over are grappling with the effects of climate change such as high temperatures and pollution, all linked to deforestation.Zambia has not been spared in the environmental challenges of deforestation, which is the clearing...

WHY is there a strange trait in certain groups in society? They behave as if the law did not apply to them by being disobedient and sowing seeds of disorder.A few months ago, when the...

IT is disturbing that rampant illegal mining in the country has continued unabated despite several interventions by law enforcement agencies.One may wonder if this illegality is thriving because some people genuinely lack alternative income-generating opportunities...

FOR some time now, the nation has awakened to regular reports of attacks on mobile money agents around the country.The attacks have mostly been about criminal minded people targeting the agents’ daily cash accumulation from...

IT is an undeniable fact that railway transport continues to play a critical role in the economic development of any country, Zambia included, through the movement of goods and passengers.With its natural advantage of being...

ZAMBIA’s mineral wealth can not be questioned and no mineral occurs in the country like copper which has for decades driven the economy of this country.Complaints have been expressed about the overdependence on the red...

ZAMBIA has over the last two years witnessed a trend where some opposition political leaders have been making careless statements which, under the Patriotic Front (PF) administration, would have led to their arrest.No doubt, they...