By ALICE NACHILEMBE Chingola Member of Parliament Chipoka Mulenga has given Copper Investment Mines (CIM) a two weeks ultimatum to ensure that they provide safe drinking water to the people of Kankoko area. CIM polluted the water in Kankoko by discharging effluents in the river, which is the only source of water in the area. […]
By ALICE NACHILEMBE Chingola Member of Parliament Chipoka Mulenga, has Challenged Mimbula Mine resources to give Chingola people priority as they employ workers. Mr Mulenga said that the people around Chingola should benefit from the resources not only outsiders. He was speaking when he met with management after he received complaints from residents that they […]
North Korea has tested a banned intercontinental missile (ICBM) for the first time since 2017, according to South Korea. The missile, which fell in waters south of Japan, flew for more than an hour and reached an altitude of more than 6,000km (3,700 miles). Japanese officials estimated it had a range of 1,100km – which […]
A Nigerian father lost four of his children after they drowned following a boat accident in the northern state of Kebbi. Musa Labaran, who survived the accident, told the BBC that he made unsuccessful attempts to save the fifth child who was closer to him on the boat. He said bodies of the four children […]
Kapiri Mposhi Magistrate Court has sentenced a 35 year old man to two years imprisonment for impersonating a Zambia Air Force (ZAF) officer and obtaining money on the pretext he would facilitate employment of a person in the Air force. Businessman Gibert Phiri of Chindwin Barracks stood charged before Kapiri Mposhi Magistrate, Arnold Kasongamulilo with […]
By MAIMBO MWEEMBA Five Members of Parliament from the Opposition PF have been suspended from parliament for 30 days, the suspension commenced yesterday and will end on April 21st 2022. The Five are Kabushi MP Bowman Lusambo, Lunte MP Mutotwe Kafwya, Kwacha MP Joe Malanji, Nakonde MP Lucas Simumba and Lubansenshi Taulo Chewe. And, First Deputy […]
By CLOZZEN BIKALE Zambia Airways has launched its first inaugural flight between Solwezi and Lusaka; this comes after its first relaunch on December 1st, 2021. And Minister of Transport and Logistics, Frank Tayali says the expansion to Solwezi, makes an important validation of the new down government’s belief in and use of public private partnership’s […]
The Drug Enforcement Commission (DEC) through its Anti-Money Laundering Investigations Unit (AMLIU) in Lusaka has arrested Kwacha Constituency Member of Parliament for money laundering activities involving K10 million and $700,000.00. Mr Joseph Malanji 56, residing at Plot Number 179 Acacia Road, Roma Park, in Lusaka, has been arrested for being in possession of property reasonably […]
The Anti-Corruption Commission has arrested a Chingola woman for being in possession of K880, 000.00 reasonably suspected to be proceeds of crime. Sylvia Chongo Mutale Banda aged 52 of House Number 11 Gandhi Road, Chingola has been arrested and charged with one count of possession of property suspected of being proceeds of crime contrary to […]
In the outskirts of Malawi’s capital, Lilongwe, just beyond where paved roads transition to dirt, an undiagnosed polio infection paralysed a three-year-old girl. From one day to the next, the child’s life was changed forever. Among Africa’s public health community, we had looked at our successes against wild poliovirus as a cause for optimism. In […]
Alice Nachilembe
Maimbo Mweemba
