By ALICE NACHILEMBE Ten thousand, one hundred and sixty (10, 160) National Registration cards have been iasued in Chingola. This is in an ongoing mobile NRC registration that will end on September 10, 2020. A total number of 7, 068 new cards have been issued while 3, 092 were replacements. Chingola District Commissioner Agnes Tonga […]
By JOHN SAKALA President Edgar Lungu has given Chingola marketeers, Taxi and Bus drivers K160, 000 cash as an empowerment. The President through Chingola Member Parliament Matthew Nkhuwa presented K80, 000 cash to women in Chingola’s Riverside as startup capital for chicken rearing and peanut butter making. The President also presented another K80, 000 evolving […]
By JOHN SAKALA President Edgar Lungu has empowered the women of Riverside in Chingola ward with K80, 000 cash. The women through their Member of Parliament Matthew Nkhuwa had lobbied that he asks for the Presidential Empowerment Fund from the President on their behalf. And the answer was a yes and yesterday, Mr Nkhuwa who […]
By ALICE NACHILEMBE Mulonga Water Supply and Sanitation Company has lunched the physical works of the multi-million water and sanitation project in Chingola under the Zambia Water and Sanitation Project (ZWSP). The project is aimed at improving water and sanitation in Chingola. Mulonga Water Managing Director Rueben Kaira said the projects aims to benefit over […]
BY ALICE NACHILEMBE Chingola Municipal Council (CMC) has revoked 14 church gathering Permits and closed down two bars in the district. CMC Assistant Public Relations Manager Donna Mbalwe said last weekend the Council conducted an exercise to monitor if Churches and others given permits for public gathering were complying to the guidelines. Ms Mbalwe said […]
Dear Editor, On Tuesday August 4, 2020, there was a huge explosion in the Lebanese Capital, Beirut. This explosion which took place at a very important port city killed 258 people, dozens were missing, thousands injured and destroyed business houses and properties, roads and residential areas. Alas! In Chingola a named prominent Business person of […]
By ALICE NACHILEMBE Chingola Town Clerk Kabombo Mutakela has opted not to side with any grouping in the Lawrence Allen Motor Sport Circuit ownership wrangles. The Nchanga Motor Sport led by John Mwee has titles of the circuit while the community fighting the Mwee executive is questioning how Mwee got titles for the same public property. […]
By JOHN SAKALA Chingola Municipal Council in collaboration with Zambia Police yesterday August 12, 2020 swung into action and destroyed vegetables grown using sewer water. The slashed gardens are those in Mulugushi area of Kapisha Township where the residents were growing vegetables using raw sewerage water. Chingola Council Assistant Public Relation Manager Donna Mbalwe said […]
Dear Editor, I write to applaud Chingola Municipal Council for listening to the calls of residents to install traffic ights at the junction of Kabundi road and Consort-Independence avenues near the Civic Centre. The installation of the traffic lights at this junction could not have come at the right time than now when the junction […]
By ALICE NACHILEMBE Chingola Mayor Titus Tembo has issued a stern warning to the people who are pulling down street lights along Chingola -Chililabombwe road. Mr Tembo said once the suspects are caught, he will ensure that they face vandalism charges. He that the past week, six street lights have been pulled down and batteries […]
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