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Nissan distributor continues its winning streak in Ghana

Nissan distributor continues its winning streak in Ghana

By Nthabiseng Motsepe General Manager, Corporate Communications Nissan South Africa Japan Motors wins Motor Firm of the Year Award for third year in a row  Nissan retains prestigious marketing award Achieves largest market share in Ghana Is voted most worthy and respected auto brand  ACCRA, Ghana (October 2, 2017) – Japan Motors Trading Company (Japan Motors), Nissan’s sole distributor in Ghana,  continued its award-winning run when it was crowned 2016’s Motor Firm of the Year Award for a third consecutive time. The Chartered Institute of Marketing Ghana (CIMG) conferred the award at the Institute’s Marketing Awards ceremony in Accra on September...

2018 Budget measures unlikely to reduce high poverty levels-JCTR

2018 Budget measures unlikely to reduce high poverty levels-JCTR

Press statement Wednesday 4th October, 2017. On Friday, 29th September, 2017, the Minister of Finance presented the 2018 fiscal year budget under the theme: “Accelerating fiscal fitness for sustained inclusive growth without leaving anyone behind”. The budget was presented at the time when according to the 2015 Living Conditions Monitoring Survey (LCMS), Zambia’s national poverty levels is at 54.4% and rural poverty at 76.6%. The poverty connotation is associated with citizens lacking access to essentials required for a dignified standard of living such as health, education and a decent standard of living. The cost of living has consistently been increasing in the...

Zambian Media Industry growth cheers Eustace Nkandu

Zambian Media Industry growth cheers Eustace Nkandu

By Ashton Kelly Bunda Independent Broadcasting Authority (IBA) Director – Standards, Licensing & Compliance Eustace Nkandu has urged the journalist to raise the standards by being professional and ethical since the horizon of the media industry has widened. The jovial looking Nkandu said his organization is overjoyed with the growing media industry and that the Zambian media should identify themselves with quality content that that will standout in the competitive global village , he was speaking during the Top star subscription bouquets launch at the top star offices in Lusaka. Nkandu said that was quick to point out that the...

President Lungu makes State House, Cabinet Office  appointments

President Lungu makes State House, Cabinet Office appointments

LUSAKA, (Thursday, 28th September, 2017) His Excellency Mr. Edgar Chagwa Lungu President of the Republic of Zambia has made various appointments at State House, Cabinet Office and in the Foreign Service as follows: (1) Dr Simon Miti, Principal Private Secretary -State House; (2) Mr Patrick Kangwa, Deputy Secretary to the Cabinet-Administration, Cabinet Office; (3) Mr Mabvuto Sakala, Permanent Secretary- Ministry of Higher Education; (4) Mr Owen Mgemezulu, Permanent Secretary –Administration, Cabinet Office, (transfer); (5) Ms Yande Mwape, National Coordinator, Disaster Management and Mitigation Unit; (6) Ms Alfreda Kansembe Mwamba, Ambassador, Republic of Brazil; and (7) Mr Anthony Mukwita, Ambassador, Federal...

Yotam Siachobe Muleya 1940 – 23 November 1959

Yotam Siachobe Muleya 1940 – 23 November 1959

Yotam Siachobe Muleya (1940 – 23 November 1959) was a long-distance runner who represented Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia) and the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland. Muleya broke racial barriers and opened a new era in Rhodesian sport when he beat the famous British four minute miler, Gordon Pirie, by 100 yards in a three-mile race at Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia in December 1958. Early life Muleya was born in Mudukula Village, in Choma District in the then Northern Rhodesia, the fourth surviving son of Jamu and Munsanda Siakwambwa.[1] As his immediate elder brother had died in infancy, Tonga custom called for...

National Assembly of Zambia 2016-2021 Members List

National Assembly of Zambia 2016-2021 Members List

About the Zambian Parliament The first meeting of the Northern Rhodesia Parliament took place on 23rd May 1924 in Livingstone, the first capital of Northern Rhodesia. The Parliament elected in December 2001 was the twentieth Parliament to have been elected since parliamentary government began in Zambia. This makes the Zambian Parliament one of the oldest continuously functioning legislatures in the Southern African Sub-region. Since independence on the 24th October, 1964, Zambia has evolved through eleven (11) Parliaments. In this regard, by 24th October, 2014, the Zambian Parliament will have continuously have enjoyed Parliamentary democracy for fifty (50) years. According to...

LUAPULA EXPO THANKS YOU!

LUAPULA EXPO THANKS YOU!

The Africast Newsflash | Issue #6     Last month we held the first ever Luapula Expo & Investment Conference and it was AMAZING. The beauty of our nation was finally showcased through an event of that grandiose. Luapula Province was the stage and all lights where on Mansa, Samfya, Kawambwa, Nchelenge and Mwansabombwe. The event was hosted by the Luapula Provincial Administration aimed to link investors to the unlock the economic potential of the province. Local and international investors, decision makers, financiers and captains were brought together on a platform like no other and the results of the event...

Azerbaijan: Charges against Journalist, News Agency Silence Independent Media

Azerbaijan: Charges against Journalist, News Agency Silence Independent Media

 By Freedom House Washington  –  August 25, 2017 —  In response  to a court in Baku sentencing one of Azerbaijan’s most prominent independent journalists, Mehman Aliyev, to three months pre-trial detention before being tried for alleged “abuse of power” and on other charges, Freedom House issued the following statement: “The charges against Mehman Aliyev and now his pre-trial detention are part of Azerbaijan’s effort to silence independent journalism and all critical voices,” said Marc Behrendt, director of Eurasia programs at Freedom House. “Mehman Aliyev directs the Turan news agency, the country’s last remaining independent news agency, which has announced it has no...

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