IMMEDIATELY information started emerging that a candidate in the Kabwata Parliamentary by elections had abandoned his candidature, it became apparent that the elections slated for January 20, 2022 were at risk and might not proceed...

The year 2021 has been an eventful one full of both challenges and opportunities.The challenges started in November, 2020, when Zambia became the first African country to default on its debt obligations largely due to...

AS the Coronavirus (COVID-19) positive cases continue to rise, there is need for the ministry of Health to make available as many testing centre’s as possible to give people the opportunity to get tested and...

The news that about 1,500 girls were retrieved from early marriages and prostitution from 2015 to date, made for good reading.According to the 2013/14 Zambia Demographic and Health Survey, 31.4 per cent of women aged...

The Zambia National Service (ZNS) is a strategic institution that has played a critical role in safeguarding the country, ensuring food security and youth skills training, among other activities.During the UNIP government, ZNS was well...

PRUDENT management of public resources should be everybody’s priority, as one of the cost saving measures in the country.Particularly, that Zambia is drowning in at least $12 billion in external debt, $2.1 billion to multilateral...

THE onset of the rainy season has brought with it a lot of joy especially for the farmers who have lived the last month or two in fear of poor harvest this farming season due...

IT is common knowledge that one of the reasons that led to the Patriotic Front losing power to the United Party for National Development in the August 12, 2021, general elections is the wanton lawlessness...

A WELL modelled Kasenseli Gold mine project is critical to Zambia’s economic turnaround.The discovery of gold deposits at the Mwinilunga based mine has excited a lot of stakeholders.Alas, the way the mine was modeled left...

CORRUPTION remains an enemy that costs countries’ resources, denies people what rightfully belongs to them and fuels inequality by promoting unjust empowerment of those who are ready to part away with bribes.Yesterday, Zambia joined the...