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The Independent Observer > Articles by: Alice Nachilembe

Lengwe to officiate AWCON final

Top FIFA referee Gladys Lengwe has scored another milestone by being appointed to officiate the final match of the 2018 Africa Women Championship between Nigeria and South Africa. Lengwe who has been making great strides in her career already has a FIFA Under-17 Men’s World Cup and U20 Women’s FIFA World Cup under her belt. […]

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Editorial: RTSA the punisher

Tell Zambians anything good about the Road Safety and Transport Agency (RTSA)? The Agency charged with responsibility to provide road safety is slowly shifting from its mandate of ensuring road safety to that of a revenue collecting agency. The Minister of Transport and Communication Brian Mushimba also looks to be completely detached from the reality. […]

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Cletus Chota shines for Zambia

By Martin Chawanzi Cletus Chama scored a late goal as Simba SC beat Mbabane Swallows 4-1 in Dar es Salaam in their CAF Champions League Preliminary Round first leg match. The winner between Simba and Swallows will meet the winner between UD Songo and Nkana

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Chingola Mayor goes green

By NAMUTENGA SAKAPILA After a complete overhaul of most of the key roads of Chingola, the leader of the Local Authority wants to plant 3, 000 trees. This is aimed at resetting history of the town once dubbed as the cleanest in Zambia. Chingola Mayor Titus Tembo said Chingola Municipal is seek to plant 3000 […]

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Chilengi entices Eximbank

By NAMUTENGA SAKAPILA Zambia’s Ambassador to Turkey, Joseph Chilengi has implored the Turkish Eximbank to explore possibilities of opening up a commercial bank in Zambia. Dr Chilengi said the Turkish government should to support Zambia’s industrialization agenda through provision of finance to Turkish companies that have expressed interest to invest in Zambia. He said it […]

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SA police investigating suspected murder of a Zambian

By ALICE NACHILEMBE South African Police are investigating a case of suspected murder involving a Zambian national. Zambian High Commissioner to South Africa, Emmanuel Mwamba confirmed that a Zambian national living in South Africa identified as Dickson Mailoni Kakoma of Pretoria, died in the early hours of Sunday morning. He is believed to have been […]

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Before Dawn film to cost K500,000

The pioneers of Zambia movie industry Yezi Arts are back and are eyeing for another movie based on a Novel ‘Before Dawn,’ by Andrea Sylvester Masiye. Yezy Arts are the Producers of the documentaries, Battle for Kavalamanja and Kavalamanja Remembered plus feature films ‘The Presidents Job Description’ and also ‘The Gods of the Eclipse.’ Now […]

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$150m for Luapula sewer

By NCHIMUNYA MIYOBA Luapula Water and Sewerage Company (LPWSC) have embarked on a sanitation programme dubbed the city wide sanitation plan at a total cost of USD 150million. Speaking during a presentation at the first national sanitation summit held under the theme ‘collective action towards sustainable sanitation and hygiene services for all’ at the Mulungushi […]

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Lufwanyama: Mushingashi lit

By ALICE NACHILEMBE Mushingashi area in Lufwanyama has been connected to the nation power grid under the Rural Electrification Authority (REA). This has excited the people of Mushingashi the home of Kambilombilo Resettlement Scheme located about 75 kilometres in the outskirts of Lufwanyama. The communities in the west part of Lufwanyama especially those from Mushingashi […]

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