By MAIMBO MWEEMBA Muchinga Province Member of Parliament Emmanuel Banda has been named as part of the thirteen members of Constituency Development Fund Committee (CDFC). Minister of Local Government and Rural Development Garry Nkombo approved the CDFC committee for Muchinga Constituency in Serenje District and also named the members This development was announced by Council […]
By Staff Writer The Drug Enforcement Commission (DEC) in collaboration with the Zambia Revenue Authority (ZRA) have seized a consignment of Benylin with Codeine syrup at Victoria Falls Border in Livingstone. The consignment was discovered during a search conducted on a Shalom Truck which was coming from South Africa. This is contained in a joint […]
By ALICE NACHILEMBE A-16- year-old boy of Chingola has been killed by suspected stone dealers (illegal miners) after a drinking spree. The Juvenile of 34 Mushili Road Chiwempala, was allegedly punched on the nose and fell on the edge of the road, and was rushed to Chawama health center where he died in the early […]
Malawian President Lazarus Chakwera has asked each citizen to take responsibility for the country’s development rather than always demanding it from the politicians. He said he had hundreds of messages on his phone from people asking him “to run their families for them” just because he is president – adding that MPs had similar messages […]
Although there is still a year to go before the best national football teams gather in Qatar for the 2022 World Cup finals, fans all over the world are turning their attention to the competition as qualifying continues. In Europe, eight teams will further ensure their ticket to Qatar by the end of the two […]
By ALICE NACHILEMBE National Action for Quality Education in Zambia ( NAQEZ) Executive Director Aaron Chansa says Computer Studies Teachers Association of Zambia (COSTAZ) has come at a critical time when Zambia is pushing into becoming a knowledge based Society. Mr Chansa said many nations of the world are using ICTs as tools for education […]
or 12 years Didier Ndabahariye has been ferrying passengers around the streets of Kigali – one of the thousands of motorbike taxi drivers, known locally as a motos. Recently, he switched his usual ride for getting around Rwanda’s capital for one of the first electric motorbikes on the African continent. “In the first days, things […]
By MAIMBO MWEEMBA Small and Medium Enterprise Development Minister Elias Mubanga yesterday dissolved the board of the Citizens Economic Empowerment Commission (CEEC). Mr Mubanga said that the dissolution has been made because the outgoing board was illegally appointed by Former Commerce, Trade and Industry Minister contrary to the provisions of the CEEC Act number 9 […]
Although there is still a year to go before the best national football teams gather in Qatar for the 2022 World Cup finals, fans all over the world are turning their attention to the competition as qualifying continues. In Europe, eight teams will further ensure their ticket to Qatar by the end of the two […]
Two citizens of the Democratic Republic of Congo have been arrested in the US for allegedly trafficking elephant tusks and rhino horns from their country. “Herdade Lokua, 23, and Jospin Mujangi, 31, of Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, were arrested on 3 November outside of Seattle,” the US Department of Justice said in a statement. It […]
Maimbo Mweemba
The Independent Observer
