By CHINOYI CHIPULU National Action for Quality Education in Zambia (NAQEZ) have expressed disappoint over the 100 percent failure rate recorded during the 2021 Grade Nine Examination at Mumena A Secondary School in Kalumbila. All the 38 pupils that sat for their Grade Nine Exams at Mumena A failed to make it to Grade 10. […]
By CHINOYI CHIPULU National Action for Quality Education in Zambia (NAQEZ) has expressed disappointment over the 100 percent failure rate recorded during the 2021 Grade Nine Examination at Mumena A Secondary School in Kalumbila. All the 38 pupils that sat for their Grade Nine Exams at Mumena A failed to make it to Grade 10. […]
By ALICE NACHILEMBE Immigration Officers at Kenneth Kaunda International Airport has denied exit to a Zambian woman travelling to Oman to work as a house maid in a suspected human trafficking case. Immigrations Public Relations Officer Namati Nshinka said the woman who is in her late twenties intended to travel to Oman to take-up a […]
Investigators in the Democratic Republic of Congo have “serious evidence” pointing to actions against national security, the presidential spokesman has said. In a statement read on state television on Tuesday night, Kasongo Mwema said such an attempt to “destabilise democratic institutions” would not be tolerated. It follows the arrest on Saturday of François Beya, the […]
Senegal has rewarded each member of the national football team with cash prizes and plots of land following their win at the Africa Cup of Nations. Each team member received more than $87,000 (£64,000) and plots in the capital, Dakar, and in the neighbouring Diamniadio city during a ceremony at the presidential palace. President Macky […]
Eighty-Nine people allegedly committed suicide last year compared to 97 recorded in 2020 with the majority being men. The suicide cases documented between January and December, last year, reduced by eight per cent compared to the previous year. Seventy-two men allegedly committed suicide and 17 females took their own lives last year compared to 80 […]
By IREEN MULENGA Minister of Small and Medium Enterprise Development Evans Mubanga has advised Civil Servants in Siavonga District to form cooperatives in order to uplift their livelihoods other than just waiting for their salaries. Mr Mubanga was speaking when he addressed Head of Departments and civil servants in the District Commissioners Office during his […]
By MAIMBO MWEEMBA The European Union (EU) Election Observer, Maria Arena says Zambia should consider removing from the law the undue campaign privileges for the President and Vice-President to ensure equal campaign conditions for all candidates. EU Chief Observer, Maria Arena said the Public Order Act has been selectively applied to restrict freedom of assembly, […]
By Staff writer Kitwe Mayor Mwaya Mpasa, has assured the National Association for Medium and Small Scale Contractors that the local authority is ready to work with them and allow them to bid for projects provided they meet the criteria for the Constituency Development Funds (CDF). Ms Mpasa said, each Constituency has been allocated K25 […]
By CLOZZEN BIKALE A Civic Leader in Kalumbila district in Mumena is saddened by reports of 38 pupils who failed Grade Nine Examinations for 2021 at Mumena ‘A’ Secondary School. Former Councillor for Mumena Ward Pearson Musele said it is disheartening to learn that in this era schools could fail to produce one child to […]
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