By ALICE NACHILEMBA Future Preneur Zambia Director Bwalya Kampamba has implored young people to demand for their space and take up pivotal role in governance related matters. Mr Kampamba said young people have been lef in governance and yet the development of the country requires their engagement. He said time for young people to take […]
By NCHIMUNYA MIYOBA President Edgar Lungu has directed the Ministry of Home Affairs to train officers in cyber security to curb escalating cyber-crimes in the country owing to the advances in information and communication technologies. President Lungu said the technology advancement has provided criminal gangs, agents of neocolonialism and their political allies with a new […]
By JOHN SAKALA The Small Scale Miners Association of Zambia Executive Director Kunda Chani says the lifespan of the roads constructed now is reduced because the load on the roads has increased. Speaking with The Independent Observer in an interview, Mr Chani said the lifespan of the roads has been stressed by mining activities in […]
By JOHN SAKALA Chililabombwe Municipal Council says it has switched its mind set and will now be using its own available human resource to attend to some urgent and critical jobs. Chililabombwe Mayor Christabel Mulala said the main drainage at Kasumbalesa border was blocked due to high generation of garbage by marketeers. Ms Mulala said […]
By JOHN SAKALA MISA Zambia is disappointed with the information of harassment and subsequent arrest of Chingola’s Rise FM Radio. Misa Zambia Chairperson Hellen Mwale said harassment of Rise FM Radio Presenter Derrick Chilufya by police officers on August 12, 2019 needs to be strongly condemned. Chilufya was harassed and arrested by police officers after […]
By JOHN SAKALA Police in Mazabuka have arrested a 42 year old man for allegedly swindling unsuspecting members of the public out of money using the name Jonathan Tembo on pretext that he was an employee in the Ministry of Home Affairs. The suspect whose real name is Arthur Mutembo is alleged to have been […]
By JOHN SAKALA Kitwe Mayor Christopher Kang’ombe has commended Barloworld Zambia for committing $ 53,000 towards a water project meant for Zamtan Township in Kitwe, in partnership with Village Water Zambia. Speaking when a team from Barloworld and Village Water Zambia paid a courtesy call on him, Mr Kang’ombe said over the last 30 years […]
By JOHN SAKALA Government is constructing a new chancery building in Addis-Ababa Ethiopia to replace the old one purchased in the 1960s. Zambia’s Ambassador to Ethiopia Emmanuel Mwamba disclosed this when he toured other foreign mission’s building new chanceries in Addis Ababa. Mr Mwamba said relevant departments in Zambia had completed approvals of the plans […]
By Staff Writer The Ndola High Court has sent two women of Ndola to 18 years imprisonment for inserted a bottle of beer into another woman’s private parts. This is in case where five assaulted Denise Mwanakumbwila and occasioned her actual bodily harm on December 1, 2018. The particulars before court in count one, were […]
By JOHN SAKALA The Ndola City Council swung into action yesterday and seized 42 goats and sheep in the Industrial area. Ndola City Council Public Relations Manager Tilyenji Mwanza told The Independent Observer that the confiscation was meant to send a strong message that the local authority would not allow the rearing of livestock in […]
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