Since the social media became popular in Zambia leading to several online publications getting popular, regular old hard copy newspapers started finding it difficult to keep their popularity. The obvious argument was, who would be interested in...

THE need by the Zambian Government to widen the tax dragnet has become more imperative with the dwindling sources of alternative public resources. Following Zambia’s attainment of the lower middle income country status, a few...

ON independence back in 1964, Zambia adopted a coat of arms that is indicative of all that the country was and aspired to continue being. One of the most significant parts of the coat of...

RECENTLY, Zambians recoiled at the news that a father had been defiling his own ailing daughter at the University Teaching Hospital (UTH). What was surprising wasn’t the story, which is no longer news in Zambia,...

IN Europe, it is a requirement for anyone working with children to be cleared by the Police of any sex-related offence. Yet in third world countries like Zambia, we have a record number of adults...

THE incessant killings of old people on suspicion that they practise witchcraft should be stopped immediately. The killing last weekend of a woman in Chibolya is the latest installment in the increasing barbaric onslaught on...

ZAMBIA’S signing of two bilateral agreements at the weekend with Angola on water and railway transport to facilitate easy movement of people and goods, will certainly increase trade between the two countries. The two countries...

HUMAN trafficking is the latest evil that has gripped Zambia and, looking at the rate at which this crime is being perpetrated on an almost daily basis, it is rapidly getting out of proportion and,...

IT is heartening to note that the Government has realised K1,417,500 from the sale of 1,575,000 holograms from September 2013 to December 2014. According to Information and Broadcasting Services Permanent Secretary Chanda Kasolo, the Government...

THE revelation by the Zambia Heart and Stroke Foundation (ZHSF) that youths in the country are abusing tobacco makes sad reading. It is evidently clear that youths in the country have resorted to spending many...