Category: Business

By Kwilanzi News Zambia UNITED Party for National Development (UPND) for Rural Reconstruction and Development Chairman Moono Mapani is demanding for high maize price for the 2019-2020 Marketing Season to protect Zambian peasant and commercial farmers. And Mr. Mapani has told Kwilanzi News Zambia in an interview in Lusaka that the Hakainde Hichilema led UPND expects the Zambian Government to take into account the socio-economic challenges faced the agricultural sector before arriving at the grain floor price. As the Seventh National Development Plan (7NDP) pegs agriculture as a spring board for a diversified economy and employment creation, Mr, Mapani advised...

[blockquote style=”1″][/blockquote] *Issued by Saboi Imboela* *Spokesperson- NDC* Sunday 26th April 2020 – Lusaka THE National Democratic  Congress, NDC, says that the Energy Regulation Board, ERB, should reduce pump prices to help cushion the social effects of COVID-19. The NDC president Dr. Chishimba Kambwili says that fuel pump price reduction and crude oil world over has become a trending phenomenal which should also benefit Zambians. This week’s global oil market prices have reduced following the COVID-19 pandemic encircling economic lockdowns in many countries, coupled with uncertainties within the OPEC agreement. Cuban Crude oil prices had reduced by 69% from $69.58...

Theresa Katongo Public Relations Officer Drug Enforcement Commission THE Drug Enforcement Commission on the Copperbelt has arrested a 56 year-old businessman of Kitwe for being in possession of over $19, 000 United States Dollars counterfeit notes. Fumbelo Westard, 56, a businessman of House No. 10116/2 Garneton East in Kitwe has been arrested for being in possession of $19, 600 United States Dollars counterfeit notes in $100 Dollar bills. The suspect was apprehended at a Zambia National Service checkpoint in Minambe area between Mufulira and Mokambo Border on a taxi coming from Kitwe. Meanwhile, the Commission in Central Province has arrested...

[blockquote style=”1″]*_Do Zambian pupils- students evaporate after an exam? – wonders Lewis Mwape_*[/blockquote] By _Derrick Sinjela_ *FORMER Zambia Council for Social Development (ZCSD) Executive Director Lewis Mwape* is disconcerted over ramifications created by the country’s pyramid education structure seemingly confining learners to destitution and near extinction. *Mr. Mwape* says it is concerning that at primary school level, a lot of children are enrolled but fail to reach or attain tertiary education and qualifications on account of lack of sufficient progression learning spaces. A vexed *Mwape* grieved that it annually puzzled him where learners are pushed to as thousands of pupils...

THE Global community is racing to turn the tide, impede and eventually halt the spread of COVID-19. The pandemic has indeed brought the entire world to a standstill. Loss of life, disruptions to social life and declining growth trends have already been observed across so many economies. Life as we know it is simply just not the same, ore so for a developing nation such as Zambia. The impacts of the pandemic are a setback on progress that has been made towards eradicating poverty, enhancing equality and development for the populace. As the scenario is unpredictable and constantly changing, the...