By JOHN SAKALA The Patriotic Front (PF) intra-Party Wards elections in Nchanga Constituency have been completed successfully. Nchanga PF Constituency Chairperson Gilly Mwape has told The Independent Observer that all the 10 ward had successful polls. Mr Mwape said out of the 10 wards, five ward chairpersons had retained their seats while the other five […]
By ALICE NACHILEMBE Copperbelt Permanent Secretary Bright Nundwe has said that Kasumbalesa Border post holds significance to the economy in that it reduces poverty for the people of Zambia. Mr Nundwe said the border reduces poverty hence it should not be messed up with insanity of illegal transactions and trading. He told immigration officers, police […]
By JOHN SAKALA State House Special Assistant to the President for Projects, Implementation and Monitoring Andrew Chellah says Government is now in full gear of empowering local contractors. Mr Chellah was recently in Kitwe where he told all contractors that Government was not asking for the 20% but it was demanding. And during that meeting […]
By ALICE NACHILEMBE Chililabombwe Municipal Council (CMC) has purchased three tipper trucks to speed up the garbage collection. The three tipper trucks were handed over to the council by Copperbelt Permanent Secretary Bright Nundwe worth K2, 550, 000 from locally generated funds. Mr Nundwe said that the fleet will enhance refuse collection in the district […]
By ALICE NACHILEMBE Rainbow Party General Secretary Wynter Kabimba says Zambia’s development should be driven by its own citizen. Speaking in Chingola yesterday, Mr Kabimba said the country can only transform and stop borrowing money when Zambian citizens become the primary actors’ of the activities of the economy. He said borrowing in Zambia has become […]
Police in Solwezi have arrested two people, after their were found with 21 cartons of Antiretroviral Drugs valued at K 299, 376 the property of the Ministry of Health. Northwestern Police Commissioner Hudson Namachila confirmed the incident to in Solwezi today. Namachila identified the two suspects as Jane Kaonga 46, a voluntary community worker at […]
By JOHN SAKALA The voters’ registers for Wards in the Chingola Constituency were manipulated and some eligible candidates were barred from the electoral process, Copperbelt PF Chairperson Stephen Kainga has said. Speaking with The Independent Observer, Mr Kainga said the registers were manipulated and some ineligible candidates were infused into the PF ward structures. He […]
By JOHN SAKALA The opposition UPND in Chingola is calling on Zambians to reject2019 National Budget announced in parliament by Finance Minister Margaret Mwanakatwe. UNPD Chingola Information and Public Secretary (IPS) Maybin Sichimba said the 2019 budget offers no tax relief to employees in the country. Mr Sichimba said the budget had more taxes than […]
By ALICE NACHILEMBE Six suspected land thieves have been found with the case to answer and have been put on the defense by Chingola Magistrate Court for illegally allocating Kasompe Air Strip land. The suspects are Kipison Nyerenda 38, Malama Bwalya 28, James Mulonga 41, Bernard Bwalya 43, George Chongo 55, and Bernadette Chileshe 46; […]
By JOHN SAKALA Chingola Bread of life Church Elder will now face two counts in his video-cam pornographic scandal. State Prosecutor Catherine Mubita today October 16, 2018 applied for substitution of the indictment so that Charles Kalombo can now face two counts. In count one Kalombo would face the offence of making of obscene cinematography […]
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Alice Nachilembe
