Category: Gender & health

THE 1.2 BILLION DOLLAR DUAL CARRIAGE WAY! WHO ACTUALLY WILL PAY FOR IT?

THE 1.2 BILLION DOLLAR DUAL CARRIAGE WAY! WHO ACTUALLY WILL PAY FOR IT?


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 By Trevor Maliwanda Simumba (Evidence right here – media are free to use this case study as they please)   During the ground-breaking ceremony for the Lusaka-Kapiri-Ndola Dual Carriageway project, the Chinese Ambassador to Zambia stated an old Chinese proverb that goes, “build your roads first if you want to get rich”. Transportation infrastructure is crucial to the economic and social development of a nation. Zambia has many favourable natural endowments for its development, however, subject to poor infrastructure, a fair amount of its economic potential cannot be fully tapped. The project of the Lusaka-Ndola Dual Carriageway was mooted over four...

Reduction in Maize Production Triggers Hunger Warning, prods JCTR May 2018 BnB

Reduction in Maize Production Triggers Hunger Warning, prods JCTR May 2018 BnB


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By JCTR May 2018 Basic Needs Basket (BnB) Press Release Thursday 14th June, 2018. Climate change is a significant developmental challenge both globally and locally. It puts at risk efforts aimed at reducing poverty and stifles progress towards the attainment of Sustainable Development Goals. The effects of climate change include changes in the levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide and ground-level ozone concentrations. They also include changes in average temperatures and rainfall patterns. Zambia is not spared from the impact of climate change. In recent years Zambia has continued to experience droughts, seasonal floods and flush floods, extreme temperatures and dry...

Guess Nyirenda condemns Nkandu Luo’s denial of 5 UNZA Students bursaries 

Guess Nyirenda condemns Nkandu Luo’s denial of 5 UNZA Students bursaries 


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By Derrick Sinjela OPERATION Young Vote (OYV) Executive Director Guess Nyirenda has condemned Higher Education Professor Nkandu Luo unilateral decision to remove the five (5) University of Zambia (UNZA) students from Government sponsorship. Mr. Nyirenda described Professor Luo’s move as personal, appalling, unacceptable, an outright abuse of authority and office, infringement of human rights and blocking citizen right to education for the said students. Nyirenda implored Professor Luo, a Patriotic Front (PF) Munali Member of Parliament (MP) to adhere to laid down students’ affairs disciplinary code by granting affected learners an opportunity to be heard, instead of taking a unilateral...

Electricity will Industrialize rustic Zambia’s, prods Pastor Geoffrey Musonda

Electricity will Industrialize rustic Zambia’s, prods Pastor Geoffrey Musonda


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By Ashton Kelly Bunda aka (BAK2BAK) WITH barely 900, 000 of the 17 million plus citizenry being connected on the national electric power grind, Rural Electrification Authority (REA) Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Pastor Geoffrey Musonda says industrialisation will develop rustic areas. Pastor Musonda hods a view that the Rural Electrification Master Plan is key in expanding access to electric power as it focuses on fast tracking electricity infrastructure development rural areas, largely viewed as low density settlements. Pastor Musonda noted in an interview with the author on the side lines of the Zambia Off-Grid Investors Forum at Radisson Blu Hotel...

ZAMBIA AND RUSSIA MUST INCREASE THEIR SCOPE OF COLLABORATION, MATIBINI

ZAMBIA AND RUSSIA MUST INCREASE THEIR SCOPE OF COLLABORATION, MATIBINI


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Speaker of the National Assembly Rt Hon Justice Dr Patrick Matibini, SC, FCIARB, MP, has reiterated the need for Zambia and Russia to increase their scope of collaboration. Speaking when the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the Republic of Zambia, Mr. Konstantin Kozhanov paid a courtesy call on him on Monday, 21st May, 2018 at Parliament Buildings in Lusaka, Speaker Matibini said the two countries need to further relations in areas such as agriculture, trade and the advanced nuclear energy. “Russia has greatly advanced in the production of Veterinary medicine which could be beneficial to our...

The French Ambassador pays a courtesy call on Hon Mr Speaker

The French Ambassador pays a courtesy call on Hon Mr Speaker


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The Rt Hon Justice Dr Patrick Matibini, SC, MP, Speaker of the National Assembly welcomed His Excellency Mr Sylvian Berger, Ambassador of the Republic of France to the Republic of Zambia and Special Representative to COMESA when he paid a courtesy call on Hon Mr Speaker on Thursday, 17th May, 2018, at Parliament Buildings. His Excellency Berger expressed his excitement to work in Africa and was looking forward to learning the vast cultures Zambia has and also expressed that this was his first appointment to Africa. The Ambassador mentioned to Dr Matibini that he was happy that some Cabinet Ministers...

Keith Mweemba secures Fresher Siwale’s freedom

Keith Mweemba secures Fresher Siwale’s freedom


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By  Fullman James Mukobeko Nico Arguably Zambian best lawyer Keith Mweemba has objected the video evidence produced on a DVD by Muvi Television in New Labour Party(NLP) leader Fresher Siwale Defamation of the President case, heard by Magistrate Alice Walusiku. This is a ‘Mother Case in which Mr. Siwale allegedly called President Edgar Chagwa Lungu an identity fraud, in account that the plaintiffs real name is Jonathan Mutawale. Meanwhile, there was jubilation within the electronically wired Court Room Court when Magistrate Alice Walisuku varied her own earlier granted bail condition of Siwale, who by 17:00 was driven to Kamwala Remand...

It’s Not About President Lungu, It’s About All Leaders


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By Derrick Sinjela THE Council of Churches in Zambia (CCZ) wishes to correct the story published in the News Diggers tabloid No. 180 published on Monday, May 21, 2018 with the headline ‘God will humble Lungu if he thinks he owns Zambia’ says COMMUNICATIONS OFFICER Michael Mazakaza. Mr Mazakaza. recollected that in an interview with a News Diggers news reporter, the CCZ General Secretary Fr Emmanuel Chikoya never at any point singled out President Lungu as a man who thinks he owns Zambia. Instead, Fr Chikoya’s sentiments were directed at all leaders in the country and were meant for both ruling...

I got the signal, Mama, I a going for Mayorship brags Chilufya Tayali

I got the signal, Mama, I a going for Mayorship brags Chilufya Tayali


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By Economic and Equity Party (EEP) President Chilufya Tayali   I WILL NOT WASTE TOR TIME, like a woman from the East, who keeps on skirting around, when a marriage proposal is made, pretending as if she doesn’t want yet she dying for it. I asked a question and you answered me positively, now, go tell the next person, that, Tayali is going for the position of mayor vote for him. The immediate question comes on my Presidential ambitions, I want to inform you that, this position will just be an opportunity for me to learn something more on leadership,...

NAPSA UNVEILS NEW KIT FOR THE NETBALL CLUB


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By Derrick Sinjela and Titani Zulu The National Pension Scheme Authority has unveiled new kit for the NAPSA Netball Club. The kit, which consists three sets of jerseys, tracksuits and other items, is worth K30, 000. Speaking when he unveiled the kit in Lusaka yesterday, Mr Yollard Kachinda, Director General, NAPSA, commended the club for its successes and contribution to the development of netball in Zambia. ‘NAPSA Netball Club has been a renowned club that won a number of titles and recorded huge successes insofar as netball in Zambia was concerned. Zambian netball history cannot be written without the mention...

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