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The Independent Observer > Articles by: Alice Nachilembe

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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CNMC reluctant to delivery black mountain

BY NAMUTENGA SAKAPILA Luanshya Copper mines Spokesperson Sydney Chileya has said management is not willing to share the slag damps as they are currently supplementing operations. He said the Minister of mines Richard Musukwa had requested the mine management to consider the slug damps with the youths in the district. Mr Chileya said management was […]

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Toll Gates Cash Cow

By NAMUTENGA SAKAPILA Toll gates are a sustainable means to mobilize funds to maintain roads and a cash cow for the economy of Zambia. Looking at the shoots taken from management information System giving a summary of Toll collections at two toll plazas at Kafulafuta and Manyumbi toll gates amounting to 43,779 in a period of […]

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Kudos to CCPC

Dear Editor Why should it take the office of the Competition & Consumer Protection Commission for some Zambian enterprises to fulfill its warrant obligations? I got a microwave oven from C plus formally Budget stores in Kasama last year (2017) with a one (1) year warrant. Few months later it had a keypad malfunction, i […]

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Zanaco FC complete moves

Zanaco FC have completed the moves for Congolese left-back, Disengomoka Pangi Autriche from Sporting Clube de Cabinda in Angola, Patient Ikamba from Lusaka Dynamos, former Unisport de Bafang captain, Richepin Tchokouaya, Kevin Owusu (Centre Back) from Nkwazi, Peter Kalota (Left-back) from Young Zanaco and midfielder Kelvin Kampumbu who has been recalled after a two-year loan […]

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Reduce Fuel-Kambwili

By ALICE NACHILEMBE The National Democratic Congress NDC Party has advised the Energy Regulations Board (ERB) to  revise the fuel pump prices. NDC Consultant Chishimba Kambwili said the call to down the pump price of fuel follows the substantial reduction of fuel prices on the international market. Dr Chishimba said the people of Zambia are […]

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CK, HH together????

Even though they say politicians know no morality boundaries, UPND leader Hakainde Hichilema and National Democratic Congress (NDC) 2021 Presidential candidate Chishimba Kambwili must help us understand how they had common goal for solidarity. The duo has totally different ideologies and their individual take on ZAFFICO is as parallel as the north and South Pole. The UPND leader HH was quoted […]

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Lusambo says Kamanga is sinking football ship

As a former football player and ardent football fan, I wish to join millions of Zambians in expressing disappointment at the dwindling fortunes of our beloved game in this country. I’ m in utter shock to come to terms with the fact that the Senior National Football Team is yet again missing out on a […]

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