Category: Gender & health

  PAN AFRICAN RADIO 105.1 FM 12:30 HOURS MAIN NEWS Saturday 13TH MAY, 2017 ===== HEADLINES ===== President Edgar Lungu has urged Zambians to emulate the spirit of selflessness and unity exhibited by freedom fighters   -The Conference of the Catholic Bishops in Zambia (ZCCB) says it has not organized any form of national prayers for the arrested United Party for National Development (UPND) president Hakainde Hichilema -A United Nations expert says Zambia’s smallholder farmers could be made squatters on their own land as the country opens up to farming multinationals in an effort to boost its economy -A global...

By Derrick Sinjela Barely a week after being widowed, Prince Bryce Mfune of the Mphamba Royal Establishment of the Eastern Province is pleading with President Edgar Chagwa Lungu to help him get compensation from the Zambia State Security Intelligence Services (ZSSIS). A fearful man of God, Prince Mfune is worried that failure to have the said pension paid will worsen his already deplorable plight as a widower bearing in mind that his beloved wife could have succumbed due to the matter at hand.  Following the death of his 56-year-old wife, the late Taonga Manyoni-Mfune, Prince Mfune wrote and delivered a...

By Theresa Katongo Drug Enforcement Commission (DEC) Public Relations Officer Lusaka, Friday 5th May 2017-The Drug Enforcement Commission in the first quarter of 2017 arrested a total of 1,431 persons for drug related offences countrywide. A year-on-year quarterly analysis shows that the total arrests increased by 6.87 per cent from 1,339 in the first quarter of 2016 to 1,431 in the first quarter of 2017. Further, of the total number of persons arrested 30 were foreign nationals while 1,401 were Zambians. Out of the total number of persons arrested 95 were female comprising 6.6 per cent of the total arrests...

By Godfrida Chanda-Chisala Ministry of Commerce, Trade and Industry (MCTI) Public Relations Officer Monday 8th May, 2017 THE MINISTRY of Commerce, Trade and Industry (MCTI) wishes to congratulate the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (CCPC) for winning a bid to host the Presidency of the International Consumer Protection and Enforcement Network (ICPEN) on behalf of Zambia. Zambia, through the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (CCPC) has just been elected the 2018 President of the International Consumer Protection and Enforcement Network (ICPEN), becoming the first African country that will head the organisation in twenty-five years. The election follows Zambia’s bid to...

First Lady Esther Lungu poses for a photograph with a delegation from  Society for Family Health when they paid a courtesy call on her at State House on Monday, May 8,2017 -Picture by THOMAS NSAMA Be the first to like. Like Unlike

FLASHBACK POINTING AT Rainbownews Zambia-Patriotic Front (PF) President Michael Chilufya Sata with Secretary General Wynter Kabimba and Spokesperson Given Lubinda at Lusaka City Council (LCC) Civic Centre Picture by Derrick Sinjela Be the first to like. Like Unlike