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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...

First Lady Esther Lungu arrives in Mongu for Save The Children’s programmes

First Lady Esther Lungu arrives in Mongu for Save The Children’s programmes

First Lady Esther Lungu arrives in Mongu for Save The Children’s programmes  First Lady Esther Lungu being welcomed by Western Province Permanent Secretary Sibanze Simuchoba as Minister of General Education David Mabumba looks on in Mongu on Tuesday, September 25,2018, where is expected to commission 20 early childhood centres that have been constructed by Save the Children Foundation -Pictures by THOMAS NSAMA REPUBLIC OF ZAMBIA  State House Presidential Photographer P.O.BOX 30135 LUSAKA Phone (260)211 266216

United States Commits $600,000 for Food Relief to Support Refugees in Zambia

United States Commits $600,000 for Food Relief to Support Refugees in Zambia

By Zambian Children Young People and Women in Development (ZCYPWD) Luapula, Zambia – The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Food for Peace Office (FFP), in partnership with the World Food Programme (WFP), has committed over $600,000 to support refugee food needs in Zambia’s Luapula Province. With funding provided by the American people, WFP Zambia will procure 800 metric tons of food, enough to feed roughly 15,000 refugees for three months. Most of the donation will consist of locally-purchased cereals, beans, and peas. The procurement will come from smallholder farmers and local aggregators to help benefit local wholesalers and stimulate...

Zambian politicians must coexist, implores Chief Nsamba

Zambian politicians must coexist, implores Chief Nsamba

By Favourite Jenala Kalando in Lusaka CHIEF Nsamba of Lunga District in Luapula Province has urged political leaders to be open to genuine criticism, by acknowledging mistakes as any noted indifference will frustrate nation building, a consequence of collective responsibility. Chief Nsamba says accepting or acknowledging criticism wil created a united community as subjects with dissenting viewpoints will feel part and parcel of all decisions made by political and traditional authorities in Zambia. Chief Nsamba is equally prodding politicians to embrace people with divergent viewpoints as an effective means of all citizens acting collectively in defending the democratic dispensation. The...

Commemorate World Teachers Day, prods ZNUT’s Joe Kasaka

Commemorate World Teachers Day, prods ZNUT’s Joe Kasaka

By Favourite Jenala Kalando in Lusaka ZAMBIA National Union of Teachers (ZNUT) Spokesperson Joe Kasaka is urging teachers to embrace quality education services as enshrined in the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal (UNSDG) number four: dubbed – “Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all”. Perhaps making reference to a view by Irina Bokova, Director-General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), that “Education can, and must, contribute to a new vision of sustainable global development’, Mr. Kasaka wants teachers to act as perfect role models by being disciplined and continue offering...

Reverend Godfridah Sumaili condemns online social nudity 

Reverend Godfridah Sumaili condemns online social nudity 

By Favourite Jenala Kalando in Lusaka RELIGIOUS Affairs and National Guidance Minister Reverend Godfridah Sumaili has commended the Zambia Police for arresting Rodgers Mwanza on account sexually and harassing a woman into unconscious state. Reverend Sumaili says it is criminal for anyone to have canal knowledge of an unconscious naked woman or man and post such graphic stereotype images social media. Reverend Sumaili told Q-news in an interview in Lusaka that now that as government is promoting national values, it is an insult to women folk and humanity as a whole seductively patronise an intoxicated individual. Meanwhile, Rev. Sumaili says...

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...

Western Province development cheers Zambian DNA’s Spuki Mulemwa

Western Province development cheers Zambian DNA’s Spuki Mulemwa

By Derrick Sinjela UNPRECEDENTED development projects in the Western Province have elated Zambian DNA Spokesperson Spuki Mulemwa. Following what he termed as incomparable investment, Mr. Mulemwa is urged the people of Western Province to join the rest of Zambians in backing empowerment programmes initiated by the Patriotic Front (PF) leadership. In a Friday, September 7, 2018, Media Statement To Urge The People Of Western Province To Rally Behind President Edgar Chagwa Lungu, Mulemwa advised the electorate in the Western Province and Zambia as a whole to work with the PF Government, led by President Edgar Chagwa Lungu and Vice-President Inonge...

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