A 17 years old girl of Petauke district has committed suicide by taking maize preservative pesticide after her family discouraged her from getting married . Police Spokesperson Esther Katongo confirmed this in a statement and has identified the victim as Iveta Mbewe of Kalando village, of Petauke. Ms Katongo said that the family discouraged the […]
By JOHN SAKALA Patriotic Front (PF) Deputy Media Director Antonio Mwanza says all those students that accessed loans must pay back. Making his Facebook post, Mr Mwanza said that those that accessed student loan, it is only morally and legally correct that you pay back. “A loan is not a bursary. It must be paid […]
Dear Editor, You have been in a slow moving queue in the Bank for half an hour. Your phone rings and you pick it. The Guard asks you to cut the call as cellphone communication is outlawed in banks. You ask yourself, how on earth should I cut a business call when I thought I […]
Dear Editor, The so called dialogue is fake. None of the parties involved genuinely care for the Zambian masses and are seeking constructive ways of securing a peaceful political climate in our homeland. The PF and President Edgar Lungu especially are very dishonest. They are controlling the state organs that are contributing to this violence. […]
A -Twenty- eight year-old man has been killed on suspicion of having extra marital affair with another man’s wife in Kalomo Japheth Chilindile of Macraymond compound of Kalomo was last night allegedly trailed and hit with a steel bar by another man when the deceased and woman were heading to a bush with a view […]
The Chinese government has given Zambia a grant of thirty million dollars for electrifying the Lusaka East Multi-facility Economic Zone. State House press aide Amos Chanda says the Chinese President Xi Jinping said his government will also fund the modernisation of Mulungushi International centre in readiness for the African Union heads of state summit in […]
By JOHN SAKALA Zambians in South Africa have come together in business to form a company that will purchase a 15 tonne truck and 17 tonne trailer. The logistics business will take advantage of the corridor between Zambia and South Africa. The ZASA Sourcing and Logistics PTY LTD will be a trusted company that will […]
Greetings Sir, I know we don’t know each other in person but owing to your achievements in football as an International FIFA Referee, I have come to know you. Sir, today 1st September, 2018, we got news of your Appointment as New FAZ Technical Director. A move that we all least expected (including yourself I […]
By JOHN SAKALA Zambian renowed FIFA Referee Janny Sikazwe has been appointed as Football Association of Zambia (FAZ) Technical Director. Sikazwe who is a civil servant working as a Teacher in the Ministry of Education in Kapiri will wait till his current employers approve his new role. see below the full statement. KASHALA CONFIRMED AS […]
Movement for Multiparty Democracy (MMD) president Felix Mutati on Friday opened a two day Luapula provincial conference with a call for “Democracy to thrive in the party and the nation at large because it is the oxygen of development.” Mutati said MMD was not formed for individuals but for all Zambians and that the party […]
Alice Nachilembe
The Independent Observer
