Category: Education

Inclusive and sustainable industrial development is critical for achieving the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in Africa. It generates jobs, reduces poverty, hunger and inequality, empowers women, expands opportunities for young people, while also improving health, safeguarding the environment and tackling climate change.   This year’s Africa Industrialization Day focuses on promoting regional value chains and underscores how industrial development in local pharmaceutical production contributes to healthy lives and well-being.   The development of a competitive and sustainable pharmaceutical manufacturing sector in Africa can help promote better health and well-being and sustainable economic growth. The availability of high quality and...

By FREDRICK MUBANGA HEAD-PUBLIC RELATIONS-RTSA   CHPATA, 17TH November, 2018- Corruption among traffic and road transport officials is posing a great risk to road safety.   Road Transport and Safety Agency (RTSA) Director and Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Zindaba Soko, has charged that the effect of corruption is not only a loss of State revenue, but may contribute to road traffic accidents if not curbed.   “Corrupt officials who allow motorists who speed, or who are driving vehicles that are not roadworthy, to proceed on their journey are posing a threat to road safety and the consequences for other road...

  Lusaka.10.30 Hours. 25.10.2018. The National Democratic Congress (NDC) Vice President Josephs Rikki Akafumba is demanding an immediate clean up at the Examinations Council of Zambia (ECZ). Mr. Akafumba says it is abundantly clear that the ECZ has been infiltrated and compromised, thus the Examining Councils ethical ability, capacity and mandate to conduct and administer examinations in the Zambia increasingly remaining doubtful. In this vain, the NDC is calling for urgent institutional reforms at the ECZ, as  its continued lapses may worsen fear that Zambian academic credentials will not be accepted by relevant international bodies, owing to the dented reputation of...