THE signing of the Constitution Bill by President Edgar Lungu on Tuesday, this week, marked the genesis of a new epoch in the history of this 51-year old country. Surely a new era has dawned!...

Government’s move to outlaw casualisation and unjustified termination of contracts of employment is progressive and should be supported by all well-meaning Zambians. This indeed has come as a pleasant present to the labour movement, the...

WHEN second Republican President, Frederick Jacob Titus Chiluba declared Zambia as a Christian Nation in December 1991, no one could predict the challenges that lay ahead, particularly in the current year. Among the impediments have...

PRESIDENT Edgar Lungu’s historic announcement that he will not allow the country to plunge into chaos by clinging to power is divinely inspired. This is in view of what is happening in Burundi where President...

WE totally agree with State House spokesperson Amos Chanda who has hailed the performance of President Edgar Lungu, describing it as exceptional. At the moment, Mr Lungu is the most popular political figure in Zambia...

WE hail President Lungu for pardoning 502 convicted prisoners to commemorate Christmas Day yesterday. We are also touched by the humanitarian consideration of pardoning an ex-convict aged 83 and another aged 75. It is further...

THIS Christmas we pray that people will understand the universality of the message of Christmas, that God’s love embraces everyone. Just like the Gospel of Luke records the birth of Jesus, “Behold, I bring you...

THE construction of Zambia’s first bio-refinery to cater for 20 per cent of the country’s petroleum requirements has come at the right time when the country is in dire need of cheaper energy to propel...

WE hail authorities in Choma, the Southern Province headquarters, for making progress in distributing insecticide-treated mosquito nets (ITNs) to expectant mothers and the under five children. The effort to reduce malaria cases, particularly among expectant...

MINING, the bedrock of Zambia’s economy, is going through one of its roughest times in the country’s history and has subsequently sent the economy staggering. Copper prices have plummeted to near-record low prices with reduced...