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K173 billion budget cheers CLRI’s Mundia Paul Hakoola

By Derrick Sinjela and Theresa Bwalya Kalenga CONTINENTAL Leadership Research Institute (CLRI) describes Finance Minister Dr Situmbeko Musokotwane’s K173 billion 2022 budget presented on behalf of President Hakainde Sammy Hichilema as a good and ambitious preposition. In a Friday 5th November, 2021 ‘Press Statement Budget Speaks to Decentralization’, Mr. Hakoola is delighted that the 2022 budget that needs hard work by all stakeholders to achieve its targets and objectives. Hakoola says CLRI is elated over the noted increase in allocation to Constituency Development Fund (CDF), as this gesture speaks to decentralization of development to constituencies were the communities will draw...

Why few holding SOME brakes on IMF support?

By Kelvin Chisanga, Zambian Economist and Communications Specialist +260 97 9305194 The economy is at stake, the IMF is coming in as a cooling agent to two important things here, one to neutralize the effect that we are currently faced with, especially the pressure to make repayments, secondly, to make and help us foster in leveraging on the economic growth and we need domestic growth to liberate economic wheels, otherwise we will be heading to collapsing of the economy, simply because the current happenings can’t take us anywhere. Am very much aware of the impact that we faced previous in...

Enock Ngoma optimistic over Zambia’s media reform

  Enock Ngoma optimistic over Zambia’s media reform By Derrick Sinjela MEDIA Liaison Committee (MLC) Media Liaison Committee Chairperson Enock Ngoma welcomed continued pronouncements from the United Party for National Development (UPND) Alliance New Dawn Administration on the media especially with regard to press freedom and the need for media reforms in Zambia. Mr. Ngoma is delighted that when presenting the 2022 national Budget to Parliament on Friday October 29, 2021 Finance Minister Situmbeko Musokotwane reiterated Government resolve to deliver on electoral pledge to enact the Access to Information (ATI) bill. Despite assurance of creating a conducive media environment, successive...

Health Minister Sylvia Tembo-Masebo listens to Phillips Pharmaceuticals Zambia Ltd – Speciality Products Manager Ajesh Shah explain SO9001:2015 Accreditation & Setting QualityManagementPractices benchmark receipt-Pharmaceutical Society of Zambia AGM Exhibition Livingstone

Health Minister Sylvia Tembo-Masebo listens to Phillips Pharmaceuticals Zambia Ltd -Speciality Products Manager Ajesh Shah explain SO9001:2015 Accreditation & Setting Quality Management Practices benchmark receipt – Pharmaceutical Society of Zambia Annual General Meeting (AGM) Exhibition Livingstone

Rosatom manufactures trial nuclear fuel assembly for Russia’s first onshore SMR NPP

Moscow October 21, 2021 PRESS RELEASE Rosatom’s TVEL Fuel Company has manufactured an experimental nuclear fuel assembly for the world’s first land-based small modular reactor nuclear power plant (SMR NPP) based on a RITM-200N reactor. The SMR plant with installed electrical capacity of 55 MW is scheduled to be launched in Yakutia in 2028. In 2025, Elemash (TVEL’s fabrication facility) will start fabrication of the first fuel assemblies with the whole initial loading batch expected to be manufactured in 2026. Before the start of production, the trial fuel assemblies and their dummies will undergo a range of necessary pre-irradiation tests....

Rosatom State Corporation Engineering Division

Alexey Likhachev, Rosatom Director General, came to Bangladesh with a working visit Rosatom State Corporation Engineering Division 11.10.2021 Alexey Likhachev, Rosatom Director General, came to Bangladesh with a working visit On October 10, 2021 Director General of Rosatom State Corporation Alexey Likhachev arrived in Bangladesh with a working visit. The visit of the Head of the company was timed to the completion of the installation of the reactor pressure vessel at Rooppur NPP Unit 1 which was performed from September 14 to October 10, 2021. Director General of Rosatom State Corporation and H.E. Sheikh Hasina Wazed, Honorable Prime Minister of...

Rainbow Néwspaper Zambia Limited Edition 085 Monday 11th – Sunday 17th October, 2021

Dr. Simon Kamwendo Miti is a good man, Thabo Kawana canes Munir Zulu By Comrade Derrick Sinjela and Joseph Mulyasalu Chanda UNITED Party for National Development (UPND) Alliance Media Director Thabo Kawana (TK) says Secretary to the Cabinet Simon Kamwendo Miti is a good and diligent senior civil servant, who deserves support by all well-meaning citizens. In an apparent reference to disparaging remarks attributed to Munir Zulu, a Lumezi Independent Member of Parliament (MP), in the Eastern Province, a tart Mr. Kawana laughed off the parliamentarian’s outbursts. During a Monday 4th October, 2021 Protea Hotel Press Briefing, Mr. Zulu, a...

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