By ALICE NACHILEMBE Fire has swept through the furniture section of Chiwempala market in Chingola. The fire started around 03:00 this morning and has destroyed property worth millions of Kwacha at the biggest market in the district. The cause of the fire is not yet known as authorities are yet to give a comprehensive statement. […]
Kenya’s President William Ruto has disbanded an elite police unit which has allegedly been linked to extrajudicial killings in the country in recent years. The president, who came to office in September, said the move was part of efforts to overhaul the country’s security sector. He told a church congregation on Sunday: “I am the […]
Tanzania’s President Samia Suluhu Hassan has expressed concern over the high birth rate in the East African country and urged citizens to take up birth control measures. It is a major reversal from the position of her predecessor, the late John Magufuli, who openly encouraged women not to use contraception. President Samia confronted the country’s […]
By MERCY MULENGA Chingola Constituency Member of Parliament Chipoka Mulenga has disclosed that the building of markets and sinking of boreholes have commenced in some rural area. Mr Chipoka says the implementation of projects in the first year has seen a lot of focus in rural areas with the construction of markets and sinbking of […]
The court in Kampala has set October 28 when it will deliver its judgment in a case in which former Uganda Airlines chief executive officer, Mr Cornwell Muleya is accused of disobedience of lawful orders in regard to the national carrier’s management. The Zambian national appeared last week before Buganda Road Court Grade One Magistrate, […]
Three children of Kafunda village in chief Mibenge’s area in Mansa district have been burnt to death in an inferno after the grass thatched house they were in caught fire. Luapula Province Police Deputy Commanding Officer, Daniel Mseteka, confirmed the incident to ZANIS in Samfya in an interview yesterday. Mr Mseketa identified the deceased as […]
By MAIMBO MWEEMBA Three Political parties have successfully filed in nominations for Bupalo ward upcoming By-election in Chingola. By Press time the Patriotic Front (PF) Kunda Kapambwe, United Party for National Development (UPND) Mushimbwa Gardner and Socialist Party (SP) Clara Chisanga had filed in their nominations. The Nominations for the Bupalo By-Election commenced with the […]
By ALICE NACHILEMBE Konkola Copper Mines (KCM) has rehabilitated Out-Patient Department (OPD) at Nchanga South hospital at a cost of K5.3 million to enhance quality health care. The wing has been refurbished and modernized by upgrading the Pharmacy, emergency and records rooms and creation of the brought in dead (BID) room which has not been […]
By Staff Writer Chieftainess Chungu of Yaba people in Lupososhi Town has urged parents and guardians in her chiefdom to ultilise government’s free education policy by taking their children to school. Chieftainess Chungu said that with the free education policy in place, no child should fail to go to school. “Previously some parents and guardians […]
Cases of cholera in Malawi have more than tripled in the last two months as authorities struggle to contain an outbreak that has killed more than 117 people so far. The UN says that cases across the country have jumped from 1,000 to more than 4,200 since August. The first case of cholera, which spreads […]
Alice Nachilembe
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