By Collins Mambwe Government must quickly come up with a serious legal frame work and form a legal body to guide the operations of churches and the clergy if people are to be saved from manipulation and inconveniences. This body must carry out an integrity test that must be introduced so that we may have […]
By NCHIMUNYA MIYOBA Anti Voter Apathy Project on the Copperbelt says the low turnout of voters at polling stations in the on going Lubwa ward by election can be attributed to untruthful campaign messages delivered by political parties. AVAP Provincial Coordinator Poster Jumbe said candidates failed to sale themselves to the electorates as they were […]
Votingin Katuba parliamentary By-election in Chibombo is going on peacefully and calmly in almost all the polling stations with some polling stations recording low turn out. By 11 hrs Chalabana polling station, 70Km west of Lusaka in Katuba had recorded 102 voters out of 259 registered voters. At Kalala polling station with two streams, about […]
By JOHN SAKALA Chililabombwe Member of Parliament Richard Musukwa has donated two power generator sets to Lubengele Clinic and Kakoso Mini hospital. Speaking during the donation, Mr Musukwa said he had procured two Gen sets at a cost of K40, 000 to light up health centres and mitigate the effects of power load management being […]
By ALICE NACHILEMBE Barloworld Equipment Zambia and Village Water Zambia have signed an agreement to launch a water partnership in Zamtan community of Kitwe. The K700, 000 Zamtan Water Scheme Supply Project is expected to benefit close to 20,000 community members. The project is expected to drastically improve their quality of life to residents in […]
By NCHIMUNYA MIYOBA Voting in Lubwa ward is underway amid tight security provided by Zambia Police at some polling stations. Voting started at exactly 06:00 hours is expected to close at 18:00 hours. Some polling stations like Matete secondary and Riverain primary had tight security due to an incident that happened at Matete secondary just […]
Ex-President Rupiah Banda’s eldest son Andrew Banda is gutted by tribal sentiments being made by some senior Government officials. Mr Banda, who has previously supported UPND, is warning against promoting tribalism. He said tribalism was threatening national peace and unity. “If there is trouble in this county some of us have nowhere to run to. […]
By ALICE NACHILEMBE The case in which the 14 men including a Chinese national were arrested for alleged illegal military training has failed to take off in the Chingola Magistrate court. The case couldn’t take off because the Defence Counsel representing seven co-accused from the 14 men was not ready for the commencement of trail […]
By JOHN SAKALA The communities of Chingola and Chililabombwe today staged the anti-Vedanta protest denouncing the company for taking the matter in the South African court when it was claiming to be making losses. Watch the full below on Facebook; The communities matched from 1 Central to the National Assembly office for Nchanga Constituency where […]
By Staff Writer A-48-Year OLD Man of Wuzakile Township in Kitwe has been sentenced to ten years imprisonment with hard labour by the Kitwe High Court for beating his pregnant wife to death over a bed sheet. Laston Davy Kapindula was charged with manslaughter contrary to the laws of Zambia. Particulars were that on March […]
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Alice Nachilembe
