Category: Business

Auditor General Office’s Leadership Vacuum worries CLRI’s Paul Mundia Hakoola

By DERRICK SINJELA Adding a civic voice on alleged missing funds at Anti-Corruption Commission, Continental Leadership Research Institute (CLRI) Executive Director Paul Mundia Hakoola holds a view that institutions of governance and law enforcement must work in harmony and in one accord to achieve maximum results in law enforcement. However, recent happenings were the Auditor General Office (AGO) letting a cat out of a hat that proceeds forfeited in the Faith Musonda case, anger Mr. Hakoola as such insinuations undermine gains in public confidence in the fight against corruption. A perturbed Hakoola laments in a Press Statement that if the...

China, DRC upgrade ties to comprehensive strategic cooperative partnership

Xinuha, May 27, 2023   The presidents of China and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) announced on Friday the elevation of the bilateral relationship from a strategic partnership of win-win cooperation to a comprehensive strategic cooperative partnership. China and the DRC are strategic partners with a profound traditional friendship forged in the course of fighting for national liberation and opposing colonial aggression, Chinese President Xi Jinping said in his talks with visiting DRC President Felix-Antoine Tshisekedi Tshilombo in Beijing. Bilateral cooperation in various fields has yielded fruitful results in recent years, and China has been the DRC’s largest...

Health Practitioner & Health Facility Fee reduction coming –Sylvia Tembo-Masebo

By Derrick Sinjela Health Minister Sylvia Tembo-Masebo says the Government’s desire is to prioritise job creation through targeted intervention and activities that promote talents and creativity is on course just as is a vow to reduce health practitioner and facility fees. In a speech read by Ministry of Health Permanent Secretary In-charge of Technical Services Dr. George Sinyangwe a Tuesday, 15th May, 2023 launch of the HPCZ 2022-2026 Strategic Plan, Ms. Tembo-Masebo’s word that Government is working on instruments to reduce the fees payable by health practitioners, health facilities and training institutions won an immediate applause by the audience witnessed...

Miriam Wells outlines 4 lessons from 4 years as an Impact Editor – and why your newsroom needs one

2023-06-07. “Information is power; let’s really harness that power” – The Bureau’s Miriam Wells goes beyond the metrics to measure the social value of journalism – with resounding impact. By Lucinda Jordaan lucinda.jordaan@wan-ifra.org | June 7, 2023 Impact Editor may be a relatively new title, but there’s overwhelming evidence to support the critical role it plays in advancing journalism in particular, and publishing in general. “I believe it will ultimately be fundamental to growing audience and revenue in two ways: first, because we are bringing – and showing we are bringing – real value to people’s lives and, second, because...

Douglas Munsaka Siakalima appoints Higher Education Authority Board

By Francis Maingaila Mwiinga Minister of Education (MoE) Douglas Munsaka Siakalima unveiled and inaugurated the new Board of Directors for the Siakalima appoints Higher Education Authority Board (HEA) calling for the correction of all anomalies that existed during the absence of the board. And speaking earlier, MoE Permanent Secretary PS for Administration (PS-Admin) Ms. Noriana Muneku expressed a sigh of relief now that the board headed by Professor Levy Siaminwe is inaugurated, after a six (6) year lull, when all matters had to be resolved by MoE technocrats. The full Higher Education Authority Board is: “Chairperson Levy Siaminwe,  Vice Chairperson...

Henry Kyambalesa on Zambia: Agriculture and Food Security

By Henry Kyambalesa Monday, April 24th, 2023 kyambalesa@gmail.com Meaningful socioeconomic development cannot be attained in any given country where the labour force is composed of starving, sickly and illiterate citizens. In this article, I wish to suggest viable ways and means by which the Zambian government—and any other national government as a matter of fact—can boost agricultural production as well as enhance the country’s food security. I am prompted to share my views on this subject by the current incidence of smuggling and shortages of mealie-meal. According to the resolutions of the World Food Summit held in Italy in November...

UPND Nurtures Zambian Talent

By Henry Chunza and Derrick Sinjela During the Second Edition of the Pan African Radio 96.1FM Emerging Stars Awards (PARESA) held at the Premium Hotel in Lusaka, Anderson Banda, the UPND Lusaka Province Youth Chairperson, assured the creative and performing artistes that President Hakainde Sammy Hichilema’s United Party for National Development (UPND) Alliance New Dawn Administration attaches great importance to nurturing their talents. Banda explained that the involvement of youths in artistic pursuits can distract them from indulging in vices such as alcohol abuse, early marriages, and teenage pregnancies, while also contributing to Zambia’s economic growth agenda articulated in the...

Kapiri Mposhi Police arrest 22-year old woman for ‘killing her newly born baby’

Kapiri Mposhi Police arrest 22-year old woman for ‘killing her newly born baby’

By Isaac Zulu in Kapiri Mposhi, Central Province, Zambia Central Province Police Commissioner David Chileshe Mukuka confirmed the development in a statement, and identified the woman who has been charged with an offence of infanticide as Queen Mboroma of Ndeke compound in Kapiri Mposhi district. “A report of infanticide was recorded on 28th May 2023 in which the incident occurred at around 14:00 hours in Ndeke ‘A’ Compound. Police received a report from female adult Astridah Mboroma aged 31 years of Ndeke A compound in Kapiri Mposhi district to the effect that her niece female Queen Mboroma aged 22 years...

Xi Focus: Xi urges sustained efforts to curb desertification

Xi Focus: Xi urges sustained efforts to curb desertification Source: Xinhua Editor: huaxia 2023-06-07 03:20:15 General Secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee Xi Jinping, also Chinese president and chairman of the Central Military Commission, presides over a symposium on strengthening the comprehensive prevention and control of desertification and promoting the construction of crucial ecological projects, including the Three-North Shelterbelt Forest Program, and delivers an important speech in Bayannur, north China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, June 6, 2023. (Xinhua/Ju Peng) BAYANNUR, Inner Mongolia, June 6 (Xinhua) — Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC)...

Xiconomics: China’s green development philosophy is contributing to global sustainable growth

Xiconomics: China’s green development philosophy is contributing to global sustainable growth

Xiconomics: China’s green development philosophy is contributing to global sustainable growth Source: Xinhua Editor: huaxia 2023-06-05 22:58:01 BEIJING, June 5 (Xinhua) — The life of Maksat Abilgaziev, a resident of Zhanatas, a small town in southern Kazakhstan, has changed immensely since a Chinese company built a wind farm there a few years ago. The 33-year-old was once an electrical engineer at a local phosphate mine company. Believing the future of his homeland and Kazakhstan lies in clean energy, especially wind energy, he quit the job in 2020 and became a wind power engineering trainee at the Zhanatas wind farm. “Our...

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