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December 21, 2017

Protect African children, prods ILO’s Luca Pellerano

By Ashton Kelly Bunda INTERNATIONAL Labour Organization (ILO) Social Security Specialist Luca Pellerano is prodding African countries to invest in childhood education and nutrition in order to grow the social protection programme. Pellerano  laments that between 70 to 75 percent of the people in Zambia’s  rural areas and Africa as whole are living below the Poverty Datum  Line (PDL) despite introducing Community Development and Social Services Social Cash Transfer (SCT) programme, administered by the was speaking to Pan African radio crew in an exclusive interview after the launch of the 2017 National social Protection week at government complex in Lusaka....

Emerine Kabanshi seeks local Zambians

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December 21, 2017

Emerine Kabanshi seeks local Zambians

 By Ashton Kelly Bunda COMMUNITY Development and Social Services Minister Emerine Kabanshi sees light at the end of the Zambian poverty tunnel once a parliamentary draft social protection bill is tabled and assented to by President Edgar Chagwa Lungu. Kabanshi says he Social Protection Act (SPA) will enhance stakeholder coordination and lift the majority of vulnerable people. Launching the 2017 National Social Protection Week at the New Government Complex in Lusaka, Kabanshi says the vicious poverty cycle will go and people can lead decent livelihood with dignity, once the Social Protection Act is actualised. “Enactment of Social Protection Act will...

NRFA US$ 1.9 million Chongwe Toll Plaza opens

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December 21, 2017

NRFA US$ 1.9 million Chongwe Toll Plaza opens

 By Derrick Sinjela and Richard Nyirenda THE National Road Fund Agency (NRFA) Relations Manager Alphonsius Hamachilais elated that all construction works and road tolling systems at Chongwe Toll Plaza have been completed and road tolling commenced on Monday 4th December 2017. Mr. Hamachila says Avic International, which constructed the US$ 1.9 million Chongwe Toll Plaza through the Road Development Agency (RDA) had completed all works and handed over the Toll Plaza to NRFA for operations. Hamachila says the Chongwe Toll Plaza has modern road tolling features which include enhanced security cameras for internal controls, transparency and accountability, vehicle recognition devices,...

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December 20, 2017

Lloyd Mulenga Kaziya empowering Matero

…..I am not a sleeping MP, LMK fights detractors  By Jessie Zimba and Fulman Mukobeko “I AM not a sleeping parliamentarian”, protests Patriotic Front (PF) Matero Member of Parliament (MP) Lloyd Mulenga Kaziya, vowing to restore compliance among domestic and commercial tenants in Lusaka’s densely populated constituency. The Water Development, Sanitation and Environmental Protection Minister, Mr. Kaziya says no stone is being left unturned to increase access to clean water and sanitation. Kaziya prods citizens to desist from encroaching on land reserved for public works by Housing and Infrastructure Development Minister Ronald Kaoma Chitotela, a PF Pambeshe MP in Luapula...

Charles Romel Banda launches Pamodzi Carnival 2017

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December 20, 2017

Charles Romel Banda launches Pamodzi Carnival 2017

By Derrick Sinjela TOURISM and Arts Minister Charles Romel Banda delightfully launched the third edition 2017 Pamodzi Carnival at Golden Peacock Hotel in Lusaka with a reminder of the initiative being pegged as a platform on which to coalesce Zambia’s cultural dances, handicrafts and traditional food. During the launch graced by Zambia Tourism Agency (ZTA) Chief Executive Officer Felix Chaila, Mr. Banda described the annual Pamodzi Carnival as show casing heritage from all the 10 provinces. Zambia now has 10 provinces; Central, Copperbelt, Eastern, Luapula, Lusaka, Muchinga, Northern, North-Western, Southern and Western boasting of remarkable and incomparable cultural dances, handicrafts...

Ghana MP’s meet Clerk of National Assembly

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December 20, 2017

Ghana MP’s meet Clerk of National Assembly

By Derrick Sinjela IN A PAN AFRINANIST SPIRIT, staff of the Ghanaian Parliament bearing a message from Speaker, paid a courtesy call on the Clerk of the National Assembly of Zambia, Mrs Cecilia Mbewe on Monday, 13th November 2017, at Parliament Buildings, and delivered fraternal greetings to Dr. Patrick Matibini, Zambia’s Speaker of the National Assembly. .Mrs Mbewe welcomed the Staff from Ghana who are on a study Visit to Zambia. The Clerk further gave the members of staff general information on the role and objectives of Parliament, the structure of the offices of the Chief Whip, Leader of Opposition,...

Zambia is bigger than us all, pleads Kasote Singogo

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December 20, 2017

Zambia is bigger than us all, pleads Kasote Singogo

By Ashton Kelly Bunda PREACHING unity of purpose, founded on common good, Party of National Unity (PNU) Interim Secretary General Kasote Singogo says Zambia is bigger than all political parties. Featuring on a Wednesday 15th November 2017 Roots FM Boiling Point programme anchored by Pennias Banda, Mr Singogo implored the Forum for Democracy and Development (FDD), the Patriotic Front (PF) the Movement for Multiparty, the United Party for national Development (UPND), the United National Independence Party (UNIP) and indeed the PNU that now can claim superiority over Zambia. Singogo advised Zambians to distance themselves from making disparaging remarks as individuals...

UPPZ’s Charles Chanda empowering Zambian women

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December 20, 2017

UPPZ’s Charles Chanda empowering Zambian women

By Derrick Sinjela UNITED Prosperous and Peaceful Zambia (UPPZ) President Charlres Chanda is pushing an empowerment agenda for a cross  section of the Zambian people in Central, Copperbelt, Eastern, Luapula, Lusaka, Muchinga, Northern, North-Western , Southern and Southern Provinces. For instance, in Lusaka, a young person Limbile Dunamis Manjolo is elated that Mr. Chanda is empowering young people, women and vulnerable men in a spirit of teaching one to fish and survive through income generation activities. Ms. Manjolo observed that the UPPZ Youth Empowerment programme in Linda compound is on course building survival instincts among children, young people, women and...

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