By ALICE NACHILEMBE The New Kasumbalesa Market shelter has been completed and all the stands put in place. The project which is scheduled to be commissioned in two weeks’ time gobbled K495,000 of the Constituency Development Fund (CDF). Chililabombwe Mayor Christabel Mulala said the Shelter has a capacity to accommodate 432 marketeers. Ms Mulala said […]
Polls are open in the referendum on the Republic of Ireland’s abortion laws. The vote will decide whether to repeal a part of the constitution, known as the Eighth Amendment, which effectively bans terminations in the country. Currently, abortion is only allowed when a woman’s life is at risk, but not in cases of rape, […]
North Korea has said it is still willing to talk “at any time in any form” after US President Donald Trump abruptly cancelled his meeting with Kim Jong-un. Vice-foreign minister Kim Kye-gwan said Mr Trump’s decision was “extremely regrettable”. President Trump blamed the North’s “open hostility” for the cancellation. The summit would have been the […]
Zambian multi-millionaire entrepreneur Rajan Mahtani has lost ownership of Zambezi Portland Cement, a leading cement manufacturer in the southern African country, as the High Court of Zambia awarded full ownership of the company to the Ventriglia family of Italy on Monday. The resolution follows a 10-year court battle between the Ventriglia family and Rajan Mahtani, […]
President Edgar Lungu has challenged Zambians to be bold enough to confront things that have gone wrong in the country and Africa in order to enhance the fight against corruption. President Lungu said Zambia and Africa need to do more to put a stop to corruption because it robs the country and continent of its […]
President Edgar Lungu has paid tribute to African freedom fighters who contributed to the liberation of the continent saying their sacrifice must Not be forgotten. President Lungu says as Zambia and the continent commemorate African Freedom Day tomorrow, Africans must rekindle the spirit of the founding fathers of African independence. Speaking in his special address […]
State House says there was no impropriety in President Edgar Lungu signing a sovereign agreement used to raise emergency financing for power imports by Zesco in the run up to the 2016 general election. Special Assistant to the President for Press and Public Relations Amos Chanda says President Lungu signed the agreement at the time […]
Zambians are planning to launch a ‘No go campaign’ aimed at stopping a Nigerian Rapper Teckno from performing in Zambia. According to the Organizers of the Campaign Boss Ross says it is unfortunate that the Nigerian Rapper insulted Mwila Musonda AKA Slap Dee for refusing to open for the Nigerian singer. Slap Dee, Zambias most […]
Inspector General of Police Kakoma Kanganja has thanked the Lusaka Province Minister Bowman Lusambo for offering aide to Charity Munganga Chanda following the inferno which gutted her house. Mr Kanganja said the Minister had come to the aid of the family of Ms Chanda, Assistant Commissioner of Police whose house was gutted and property worth […]
By JOHN SAKALA Chipolopolo head coach Wedson ‘Wada’ Nyirenda had dumped underperforming Chipolopolo to join a South African Premier Soccer League Baroka FC. Nyirenda played most of his football career in South Africa and he has been under fire for underperforming of the Chipolopolo boys thereby making him look for a coaching job elsewhere. Media […]
Alice Nachilembe
The Independent Observer
