By JOHN SAKALA The high fuel prices has made truckers at various border posts to improvise a belly tank to their trucks to sneak into Zambia cheap fuel from other countries. Business players are also digging deep into ways of beating existing legal frameworks. One such system is the modification of fuel tanks by some […]
Electoral Commission of Zambia (ECZ), Vice Chairperson Annette Nhekairo has called on youths in North-western province to exercise maximum restraint towards violence in the upcoming Tumvwanganai ward by elections in Solwezi district. Speaking when she graced the youth conference held in Solwezi, under the theme “youth involvement in the electoral process”, Ms Nhekairo said youths […]
The Police in Ndola have charged five pastors and three officials from the Centre for Trade Policy and Development for unlawfully assembly. Copperbelt Police Commissioner Charity Katanga said the eight will appear in Court on Friday. She said the meeting that the group had was ‘political’ as they did not have a police permit. On […]
…….reliance on one commodity not good for the economy Zambia’s Ambassador to Germany Anthony Mukwita said Zambia is cognizant of what can happen when a country heavily relies on only one commodity as a source of foreign currency revenue. Addressing students at Bard College Berlin, an Arts University in Berlin, Germany, Ambassador Mukwita said the […]
By Abigail Chaponda in London, United Kingdom United Kingdom Minister of State for Africa at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and Minister of State at the Department for International Development Harriett Baldwin has said the UK is a steadfast friend of Zambia. During a meeting when Minister Baldwin hosted Zambia’s High Commissioner to the United […]
President Edgar Lungu has called on Zambian farmers to venture into production of high value agro produce to take advantage of the regional demand. President Lungu has cited fish and livestock production as among high value agro produce. Officiating at the 113 Zambia National Farmers Union (ZNFU) Annual Congress in Lusaka, President Lungu revealed that […]
United Kingdom Minister of State for Africa at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and Minister of State at the Department for International Development Harriett Baldwin has said the UK is a steadfast friend of Zambia. During a meeting when Minister Baldwin hosted Zambia’s High Commissioner to the United Kingdom His Excellency Mr. Muyeba Chikonde at […]
Three members of one family have drowned while two others survived after a Canoe in which they were, capsized on Luapula River. The victims were heading towards Congo DR territorial waters for some farming activities. Police Spokesperson Esther Katongo said a report was made to Milenge Police by Tonga Chisha 40, of Yatema area Chief […]
By JOHN SAKALA Four bandits have snatched K10, 000 cash from one of the shops at Lusaka’s Makeni Villa. The robbery was staged after the suspects were furnished with information of the money at the shop by an insider. Police Spokesperson Esther Katongo has told The Independent Observer that the quartet attacked a cashier and thereafter […]
By ALICE NACHILEMBE A-23 year old man of Mansa has been arrested for ambushing a 13-year old girl whom he dragged to a nearby bush and slept with her. The minor was playing outside their house when Alfred Bwalya pounced on her and dragged her to a nearby bush within the vicinity of the girl’s parent’s […]
The Independent Observer
Alice Nachilembe
Abigail Chaponda
