PRESS STATEMENT FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Pretoria, 23rd June,2018 Zambia has issued a second travel advisory alert issued to truck drivers and transporters entering South Africa. The advisory alert follows reported fresh wave of sporadic attacks on foreign registered trucks driven by foreign nationals. Zambia’s High Commissioner to South Africa His Excellency Mr Emmanuel Mwamba says […]
PF CENTRAL COMMITTEE CONCLUDES ADOPTION PROCESS FOR UPCOMING BY-ELECTIONS Lusaka, Zambia, 23rd June 2018 – The Secretary General of the Party Hon Davies Mwila wishes to announce that the Central Committee of the Patriotic Front met today, 23rd June 2018 and chaired by the Republican President and Party President His Excellency Mr. Edgar Chagwa Lungu […]
Captions story: Zambia Postal Services (Zampost) Chingola Branch has embarked on aggressive marketing of its products and services. The branch regularly displays outside its offices the services that are available to the general public. Most of the times people rarely visits the post office hence the move to display outside to show case what takes […]
By JOHN SAKALA With most of the roads receiving facelift in Chingola, Nchanga Member of Parliament Chali Chilombo has said another contractor China Henan will be in Chingola in July to do extra 39 kilometres of Township roads. Mr Chilombo was speaking recently with The Independent Observer in an interview. He said most of the […]
By Yasin Musa Ayami I have taken particular interest in watching the performance of African teams at the Russia 2018 World Cup. Interestingly, Africa has scored only three goals so far with each of our teams save Senegal losing their match mostly in the dying minutes of the game. I have observed that even with so […]
The opposition UPND has adopted Pastor Kangwa Chileshe as its candidate for the Lusaka Mayoral elections. Pastor Kangwa is famed for his acting role in Zambia’s first soap opera Kabanana in which he played the lead role of Jason Kabanana. The UPND has also adopted George Muleya as the party’s candidate for the Chilanga Council […]
By ALICE NACHILEMBE Chiwempala market will be demolished to pave way for the construction of modern market. The construction and demolishing will be done in phases. This has brought mixed feelings to the marketeers who are scared that once the modern market is constructed they may fail to occupy it like the case of […]
By ALICE NACHILEMBE Journalists have a key role to play in the HIV Vaccine Clinical trials and research. Zambia Emory HIV Research Project (ZEHRP) Director William Killembe said that there is need for collaboration with mutual understanding between the media and the medical experts. Dr Killembe said that sometimes there is fear from experts that […]
By JOHN SAKALA Two Zambian Police Officers who died while serving in the United Nations (UN) peace keeping mission in Darfur Sudan have been honoured posthumously by UN. The duo is Detective Chief Inspector Bright Sikalinda who died in a road accident in Zambia between Kapiri and Ndola when he was on leave in 2017. […]
Eight members of the same family have been admitted to Kasamba Rural Health Centre after consuming local brewed drink popularly known as ‘Munkoyo’ in Kasamba area of Manyinga. The victims are three adults who include two female and one male as well as five children of three girls and two boys respectively. Resident Doctor, Joel […]
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