Monthly Archive: January 2017

Visa Signs Strategic Partnership Deal with Atlas Mara

Visa Signs Strategic Partnership Deal with Atlas Mara

Partnership aims to drive electronic payment adoption and financial inclusion in Sub Saharan Africa   Lusaka, Zambia – 26 Jan 2017: Visa (NYSE:V), a global payments technology company, today signed a commercial partnership with Atlas Mara Limited (LON: ATMA), the sub-Saharan Africa financial services group, as part of a wider strategic partnership to introduce a dynamic suite of payment solutions and expand access to electronic payments within the Sub-Saharan Africa region.   Through this partnership, Atlas Mara’s banks will be able to leverage already existing Visa payment platforms, such as mVisa and Visa Direct, to provide their customers new ways...

DEC PRESS STATEMENT 31st JANUARY 2017

DEC PRESS STATEMENT 31st JANUARY 2017

Lusaka, Tuesday 31st January, 2017 – The Drug Enforcement Commission through its Anti-Money Laundering Investigations Unit (AMLIU) in Western Province has arrested a Deputy School Head Teacher for money laundering involving over K17, 000. Wamuntima Nyambe, 32, a Deputy Head Teacher of House No. 4 Namushakende in Nalolo District has been arrested for theft by public servant, fraudulent false accounting and money laundering contrary to the Laws of Zambia. Particulars of the offence are that Wamunyima Nyambe, a class teacher and acting as Human Resource Officer at Nalolo District Education Office, on 24th December, 2015 by virtue of his employment and...

African Heads of State make Historic Commitment to Advance Immunization in Africa

African Heads of State make Historic Commitment to Advance Immunization in Africa

It includes 10 commitments, including increasing vaccine-related funding, strengthening supply chains and delivery systems, and making universal access to vaccines a cornerstone of health and development efforts ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, January 31, 2017/ — Today, Heads of State from across Africa adopted a Declaration on Universal Access to Immunization in Africa, in which they endorsed the Addis Declaration on Immunization (http://APO.af/9BsLoF), a historic and timely pledge to ensure that everyone in Africa – regardless of who they are or where they live – receives the full benefits of immunization. The endorsement was issued during the 28th African Union (AU) Summit...

Mary Tyler Moore, Icon of the Seventies’ Single Working Woman, Dies at 80

Mary Tyler Moore, Icon of the Seventies’ Single Working Woman, Dies at 80

Roxanne Robinson WWDJanuary 26, 2017 Mary Tyler Moore, an actress whose name defined a Seventies sitcom and inspired legions of independent, career-driven women, died Wednesday at the age of 80. After spending her early years in Brooklyn, her family relocated to the West Coast when she was eight. A trained ballet dancer and former model, she got her start on the small screen dancing in commercials during the “Ozzie and Harriet” show, before concentrating more on acting. Beginning in 1961, she perfected the newly married wife as “Laurie Petrie” on “The Dick Van Dyke Show” opposite the program’s namesake. On...

Michelle Obama once spoke about how Mary Tyler Moore had inspired her, and the reasons are pretty incredible

Michelle Obama once spoke about how Mary Tyler Moore had inspired her, and the reasons are pretty incredible

Celebrity Alim Kheraj Hello Giggles January 26, 2017 Michelle Obama once spoke about how Mary Tyler Moore had inspired her, and the reasons are pretty incredible While tributes and remembrances are being shared, we’ve come across and old interview the former First Lady, Michelle Obama, gave about Mary Tyler Moore, and it’s so darn inspiring. It was sadly announced yesterday that iconic television icon Mary Tyler Moore had passed away at aged 80. It had previously been reported that Moore had been admitted to hospital and was in a grave condition. However, her spokesperson, Mara Buxbaum, confirmed that she had upsettingly passed away....

Roger Goodell says giving Tom Brady the Super Bowl trophy won’t be awkward Frank Schwab

Roger Goodell says giving Tom Brady the Super Bowl trophy won’t be awkward Frank Schwab

Jan 25, 2017, 9:57 PM One of the great story lines heading into Super Bowl LI is the New England Patriots-Roger Goodell feud. Goodell levied severe punishment against the Patriots and quarterback Tom Brady for deflate-gate, and there’s the possibility he’ll have to hand the Patriots the Lombardi Trophy in less than two weeks. It will be uncomfortable since we all know the history, but Goodell told Colin Cowherd of Fox Sports Radio that he’d have no problem giving Brady the trophy if the Patriots beat the Atlanta Falcons on Feb. 5. Goodell suspended Brady four games for deflate-gate, and...

Chipata upcoming artist bemoan lack of attention   

Chipata upcoming artist bemoan lack of attention   

By Hellen Nachula Nsokolo Chipata musician BoyTizo has lamented that artists who are based out of the big 5 main central business towns in Zambia are considered to be untalented. BoyTizo whose names are Kepton Kumwenda based in the Eastern Province town of Chipata formerly known as Fort Jameson said that the media and Zambians in general should try asses or pay attention to talent outside Lusaka, Kitwe, Ndola, Kabwe and Livingstone as God has blessed the human race differently. The determined musician said that small areas like Jamaica have produced Bob Marley, Jimmy Cliff, Yellow man, Peter Tosh and...

Roof Kachulu Market, cries Shadreck David Nyendwa

Roof Kachulu Market, cries Shadreck David Nyendwa

By Sibeso Nalufu in Kabwe, Central Province MARKETEERS at Kabwe’s Katondo market in the Central Province have felt neglected following the Government’s failure through local Government Minister Vincent Mwale to reconstruct the blown off roof at nearby Kachulu market. Kachulu Market chairman Shadreck David Nyendwa remains aggrieved that the Resident Development Committee is just interested in pushing the Patriotic Front (PF) Government led by President Edgar Chagwa Lungu to rehabilitate the damaged roof. Mr.  Nyendwa regrets that the market had remained without a roof for more than a year, though conceding that authorities delivered a few iron sheets at the...

CYPRUS INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY

CYPRUS INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY

50% special discount applied on tuition fees for all international students Wide range of accreditation undergraduate and post graduate programmes Modern vibrant campus with full range of academic social and sports activities Guaranteed on campus accommodation and excellent dining facilities NORTH CYPRUS Safe and peaceful country with rich culture No ethnic or religious problem Transit VISA Guaranteed with university acceptance letter Direct Turkish Airlines flights from African capitals Contact Cyprus International University Tel:(+90)3926711111 ext 2074 Fax (+90)3926711130 Haspolat-Nicosia North Cyprus via MERSIN 10 TURKEY CIU.EDU.TR or Africa@ciu.edu.tr Contact: CIU International Office Regional Manager Ms. Hazal Aripinar  or                                                 Lladia Educational Consultancy...

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