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Speech Analyst Mile Sichula …writes on  Happy struggling journalists 2017

Speech Analyst Mile Sichula …writes on  Happy struggling journalists 2017

Speech Analyst Mile Sichula …writes on Happy struggling journalists We have come a long way and we are far from our desired destiny. Our destiny will and it can never be free from conflict with those who want to hide information from citizens. It is time for the media to adapt to unfriendly authorities than to complain because those with power to cage and brutalise Journalists seem to be happy with the status quo. Remember the saying, there is no sweet without sweat. To inform, educate and entertain requires and demands hard work. Imagine a World without Journalists, just think...

The way of pioneers is not easy, cautions Webster Twaambo Jr.

The way of pioneers is not easy, cautions Webster Twaambo Jr.

  Webster Twaambo, Jr.‎Rising Professionals Summit-2018 Soon after releasing my second book titled ‘Press On’, I gave some copies to a good friend to sell. A few weeks later I called my friend for an update on book sales. Being convinced with the content and quality of the book I was expecting my friend to even request for more copies. To the contrary, he told me “people are asking ‘who is this Webster, who’s son is he?’” This was a reality check, a brutal fact, that no one in my lineage had explored that path. I had to buckle up...

Catholic Communications Community mourns Ben Kangwa

Catholic Communications Community mourns Ben Kangwa

Mwenya Mukuka (Mr.)  Communications Officer Zambia Conference of Catholic Bishops Lusaka 20th October, 2018– Catholic Media Services (CMS) and the entire Catholic Communications and Media fraternity are deeply saddened at the passing on of Mr. Ben Kangwa,” says Zambia Conference of Catholic Bishops (ZCCB) Communications Director Father  Winfield Kunda. Father Kuna described late Kangawa’s death as a great loss to the Church especially as BK  continued to be instrumental in the Communication ministry of the Catholic Church in Zambia. Father Kunda maintained that even in his death, the Catholic Church would continue to celebrate Ben Kangwa’s contribution towards the growth of the...

FDD prefers ZCID dialogue led process, prods Chifumu Banda

FDD prefers ZCID dialogue led process, prods Chifumu Banda

By Ashton Kelly Bunda FORUM for Democracy Development (FDD) Vice-President Chifumu Banda says the National Dialogue is an exercise that must be carried out every year to build unity. State Counsel Banda said the National Dialogue is an opportune time to resolve teething contentious issues caused by politicians who time without number have failed  to agree and co-exist. State Counsel Banda said the National Dialogue must be managed by the Zambia Center for (ZCID) which is created by political players who have knowhow of the root causes of their differences. The FDD Vice President says the Edith Nawakwi led party...

Charles Banda earmarks Independence Stadium Football Museum

Charles Banda earmarks Independence Stadium Football Museum

By Ashton Kelly Bunda TOURISM and Arts Minister Charles Banda has confirmed that the legendary football pitch Independence Stadium in Lusaka has already been reserved to be a museum that will keep Zambian prestigious soccer history. Banda disclosed that a team from the Tourism and Arts Ministry  and Moses Mawere’s Youth , Sports and Child Development Ministry have tentative agreed to turn independence stadium in the densely populate Matero Township in Lusaka  into a ‘First Ever Sports Stadia Football Museum’ in the world. Following pressure mounted by electronic and print media journalists affiliated to the Zambian Developmental Media Alliance (ZADEMA),...

Visit Museums and discover Zambia’s heritage prods Victoria Chitungu-Phiri

Visit Museums and discover Zambia’s heritage prods Victoria Chitungu-Phiri

By Ashton Kelly Bunda and Derrick Sinjela in Lusaka, Zambia Lusaka National Museum Director Victoria Chitungu-Phiri has bemoaned the underutilization of museums by indigenous Zambian people as heritage facilities act as places of learning, teaching and entertainment. Ms.  Chitungu-Phiri has lodged a complaint that it is rare to find ordinary citizens visit the Lusaka Museum and such facilities countrywide to go and learn about Zambia’s rich history. Zambia through Northern Province Minister Brian Mundubile and Permanent Secretary Elias Kamanga will  host the commemorate the Centenary marking the  end of the First World War on Sunday 25th November 2018 in Mbala....

Press Statement Justice Munalula Lisimba (RTD) Chairperson Zambia Commission of Inquiry into Voting Patterns and Electoral Violence on the remaining work of the CIVPEV

Press Statement Justice Munalula Lisimba (RTD) Chairperson Zambia Commission of Inquiry into Voting Patterns and Electoral Violence on the remaining work of the CIVPEV

PRESS STATEMENT BY JUSTICE MUNALULA LISIMBA (RTD) CHAIRPERSON OF THE COMMISSION OF INQUIRY INTO VOTING PATTERNS AND ELECTORAL VIOLENCE  ON THE REMAINING WORK OF THE COMMISSION The Commission of Inquiry into Voting Patterns and Electoral Violence is in receipt of Statutory Instrument No. 60 of 2018 in which His Excellency Mr Edgar Chagwa Lungu, President of the Republic of Zambia, in exercise of the powers contained in section 3 of the Inquiries Act, has extended the mandate of the Commission to 31st December, 2018 to finish its work. Prior to this extension, the Commission had by 30th June, 2018, covered...

Create Cooperatives Ministry, Highvie Hamududu implores President Edgar Chagwa Lungu 

Create Cooperatives Ministry, Highvie Hamududu implores President Edgar Chagwa Lungu 

By Derrick Sinjela and Favourite Jenala Kalando in Lusaka AS ZAMBIA grapples with high poverty, high income inequality and high unemployment, Party of National Unity (PNU) President Highvie Hamududu urging President Edgar Chagwa Lungu to heed calls seeking immediate establishment of fully-fledged Cooperatives Ministry. Preaching home grown solutions to Zambia’s myriad of socio-economic woes, Mr. Hamududu advised President Lungu to abolish one or two ministries to create space for the establishment of a fully-fledged Cooperatives Ministry. Formerly Chairperson of the Expanded Parliamentary Committee on Estimates, Hamududu believes that once established, a fully-fledged Cooperatives Ministry will facilitate anticipated socio-economic transformation. “Government...

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?

 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...

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

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

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...

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