Category: Education

GOVERNMENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF ZAMBIA REPUBLIC OF ZAMBIA ADDRESS BY HIS EXCELLENCY THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF ZAMBIA, MR. EDGAR CHAGWA LUNGU

GOVERNMENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF ZAMBIA REPUBLIC OF ZAMBIA ADDRESS BY HIS EXCELLENCY THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF ZAMBIA, MR. EDGAR CHAGWA LUNGU

  THE PROGRESS MADE IN THE APPLICATION OF NATIONAL VALUES AND PRINCIPLES   DELIVERED TO THE SECOND MEETING OF THE SECOND SESSION OF THE TWELFTH NATIONAL ASSEMBLY 16TH MARCH 2018   INTRODUCTION MR. SPEAKER, 1. I AM DELIGHTED TO JOIN YOU AND THE HONOURABLE MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT IN THIS AUGUST HOUSE TODAY.   2. OUR CONSTITUTION UNDER ARTICLE 9(2) DEMANDS THAT, ONCE EACH YEAR, THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF ZAMBIA PRESENTS TO THIS AUGUST HOUSE A REPORT ON THE PROGRESS MADE IN THE APPLICATION OF OUR NATIONAL VALUES AND PRINCIPLES. BY EXTENSION, THIS CONSTITUTIONAL PROVISION ENTAILS THAT THIS HOUSE...

 Increase ‘Girl-Boy-Child’ access to university, pleads Senior Chief Nkula

 Increase ‘Girl-Boy-Child’ access to university, pleads Senior Chief Nkula

  By Derrick Sinjela, Chitani Zulu and Ashton Kelly Bunda SENIOR Chief Nkula of the Bemba Speaking People of Chinsali District of Muchinga Province is prodding the Zambian Government through Higher Education Minister Nkandu Luo to emulate neighboring Malawi by increasing girl and boy child access to university education, through a decentralized district selection approach. While acknowledging support rendered to intelligent girls in his chiefdom, Senior Chief Nkula, Kafula Musungu II implored President Edgar Chagwa Lungu and Vice President Inonge Mutukwa-Wina, through Professor Luo to select a minimum of 20 intelligent female and male students per district. Making reference to...

13-year-old Maxwell Simbuwa eyes legal work

By Derrick Sinjela and Ashton Kelly Bunda Zambian Developmental Media Alliance (ZADEMA) Executive Member and Child Rights Activist MAXWELL Simbuwa is a dedicated budding Child Activist. Initially, Simbuwa belonged to the Zambian Children and Young People (ZCYPD), a committed Media Network for Child Rights and Development (MNCRD) member and Child Journalist in the Children’s News Network (CNN). Aside from his active participation in the ZCYPD, Simbuwa, a grandchild to venerated broadcaster, the late Charles Mando, and continues campaigning for Child Rights beyond the Zambian geographical landscape. As an activist, Simbuwa has through the Media Network for Child Rights and Development...

Campaign for Girls Education in Zambia (Camfed Zambia)

Campaign for Girls Education in Zambia (Camfed Zambia)

By Derrick Sinjela Zambia is one of the poorest countries in the world, with 64% of the population living on less than $1.25 per day. Some 15% of the adult population has AIDS; an estimated 1.1 million children are orphans. Girls experience high rates of exclusion from education because of extreme poverty, most prevalent in the rural areas of the Western, Luapula, Muchinga and Northern provinces. These provinces fare much worse than others in government assessments of income levels, education and health. Zambia is ranked 13th out of 15 countries for literacy and numeracy by the Southern African Consortium for Measuring...

Zambia’s Youth status worries UPND’s Francis Kabuseni

  By Francis KABUSENI   United Party for National Development (Upnd Copperbeltfleighthh Kitwe District Youth Information and Publicity Secretary   Tuesday 13th March, 2018   ON Monday, 12th March 2018, youths were commemorating the youth day. However, there was nothing to celebrate and the annual marching and speeches by some political leaders have yielded nothing.   Majority of youths are still languishing in abject poverty due to high unemployment and generally the failing economy among many. Looking at statistics unemployment is highest among youths.   Street vendors who were recently chased from the streets, miners who were retrenched by the...

Ambassador Maxwell Simbuwa off to Vienna, Austria

Ambassador Maxwell Simbuwa off to Vienna, Austria

By Rainbow Zambia   ZAMBIAN Children Yong People and Women in Development (ZCYPWD) Ambassador Maxwell Simbuwa is representing Zambia at the 2018 Youth Forum by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime in the Context of the Commission on Narcotics Drugs as the Zambian Youth Representative in Vienna, Austria.   “Go on Maxwell Simbuwa, do have the exposure as granted the the Almighty God, through the Lord Jesus Christ. We applaud the The UN System and The Drug Enforcement Commission in Zambia for picking on our budding Child and Media Right Activist, who equally belongs to Henry Kabwe’s Media...

Removal of vendors is in good faith-Kelvin Mutale Sampa

Removal of vendors is in good faith-Kelvin Mutale Sampa

By Derrick Sinjela THE Zambian Government  is interested in better trading spaces, for citizens, says  Patriotic Front (PF) Kasama Member of Parliament (MP) Kelvin Mutale Sampa told Comet Radio 93.7FM ‘The Podium’ anchored Timothy Chilala Mukwima, on Wednesday 7th March 2018. Responding to the anchors question on whether or not removal of vendors had made the PF and President Edgar Chagwa Lungu unpopular, Mr. Sampa says even at family level, a parent is equally supposed to create a conducive and sane environment. Kasama located approximately, 850 kilometres in the Northern |Province, from Lusaka, Sampa explained that ‘Cooperatives Initiative’ a brainchild...

NBA WELCOMES THE COMING INTO FORCE OF THE NAGOYA-KUALA LUMPUR SUPPLEMENTARY PROTOCOL

NBA WELCOMES THE COMING INTO FORCE OF THE NAGOYA-KUALA LUMPUR SUPPLEMENTARY PROTOCOL

LUSAKA, ZAMBIA- The National Biosafety Authority (NBA) has welcomed the Nagoya-Kuala Lumpur Supplementary Protocol on Liability and Redress which came into effect on Monday, March 5, 2018 in Japan. NBA Chief Executive Officer Mr. Lackson Tonga said the protocol was key in contextualization of the Biosafety Act. “Zambia is a part to the Cartagena Protocol and the coming into effect of the Nagoya-Kuala Lumpur Supplementary Protocol on Liability and Redress to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety, is very welcome and timely,” he said. “The Cartagena Protocol is important because it addresses the handling and transiting of GMOs so that they...

CCZ commends Chiefs’ rejection of Land Policy

CCZ commends Chiefs’ rejection of Land Policy

By Council of Churches in Zambia   THE Council of Churches in Zambia (CCZ) has commended the move by traditional leaders to reject the land policy which they feel disregards their role as traditional leaders. CCZ General Secretary Fr Emmanuel Chikoya says the proposal by Government to side-line Chiefs in the administration of land will result in more Zambians being displaced from their pieces of land in their own country. In a Media Statement issued by CCZ COMMUNICATIONS OFFICER Michael Mazakaza (Mr), Fr Chikoya says so far a lot of Zambians have been displaced from their pieces of land which...

K5.63 billion released for development programmes and Government operations

K5.63 billion released for development programmes and Government operations

By Chileshe Kandeta For/MINISTRY OF FINANCE www.mof.gov.zm Monday, 5th March, 2018 IN FEBRUARY, 2018, the Treasury released a total of K5.63 billion for developmental programmes and Government operations. Of this amount, a total of K2.14 billion was for personal emoluments for public service workers, K1.5 billion went towards debt service, and K799 billion was released for grants while the remainder of K1.22 billion went to other key programmes including capital projects. K341 million was disbursed to Ministries Provinces and Other Spending Agencies (MPSA’s) for operations and for implementation of planned programmes and activities. The Auditor General was given K15 million...

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