Daily Archives: March 11, 2015

ZDA urges companies to create more job opportunities

Zambia Development Agency (ZDA) has urged companies operating in the country to step up their efforts in contributing to job creation and industrialization. ZDA Director General Patrick Chisanga notes that though many companies that have invested in Zambia are contributing to the country’s economy much more still needs to be done. Mr. Chisanga says shaping the country’s future and employment ...

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EYAI castigates people celebrating over Lungu’s illness

Evangelical Youth Alliance International Executive Director Moses Lungu says those rejoicing over President Lungu’s illness are inhuman. Reverend Lungu notes that any normal human being cannot rejoice over someone’s illness no matter how much they hate that person. He says it is normal for any person to fall sick at any time regardless of their position in society. Rev Lungu ...

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First Lady urges Zambians not to relent in fight against HIV

First Lady Esther Lungu has urged Zambians not to relent in their pursuit of an HIV free Zambia. In a speech read on her behalf by health Minister Joseph Kasonde during the launch of the revised national AIDS framework 2014-2016, Mrs. Lungu says there is still need to remain persistently set on the response to HIV/AIDS as the task of ...

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Police in Kasama nabs three for missing baby ‘body parts’

Police in Kasama have arrested three people in connection with the missing human body parts of a two-year-three month’s old baby who died on 10th February and was buried on 11th February 2015. The incident happened after 32 year old witch finder Justwell Mazimba of Mpulungu was seen by members of the public with two legs, a head and two ...

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Govt blames panic buying for fuel shortage

Mines, Energy and Water Development Minister Christopher Yaluma has attributed the shortage of fuel mostly in Lusaka to panic buying by motorists. The Minister has told Parliament in a ministerial statement today that the panicking buying has resulted in an increase in the daily uplift of fuel from Lusaka fuel Depot from 300,000 litres to 600,000 litres of petrol per ...

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HH demands PF fulfills promise to reverse retirement age

UPND President Hakainde Hichilema has challenged the ruling Patriotic Front to honor its campaign promise to reverse the retirement age from 65 to 55 years with immediate effect. Mr Hichilema who had an interaction with students and other young Zambians on various subjects says the UPND’s commitment has always been to create viable business environment to the working Zambians so ...

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TIZ welcomes DPP tribunal

Transparency International Zambia (TIZ) has welcomed the appointment of a Tribunal to probe the Director of Public Prosecutions Mutembo Nchito. TIZ Executive Director Goodwell Lungu in a statement to QFM News says it is hoped that the allegations and counter allegation that have been flying around will now be put to rest. Mr Lungu says TIZ has observed that some ...

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MMD bans use of RB regalia

The opposition MMD has banned the use of former party and Republican President Rupiah Banda’s party regalia during public functions. MMD National Secretary Mwansa Mbulakulima announced the ban during a media briefing in Lusaka this morning that the party has since written to the Zambia Police notifying them about the development. Mr Mbulakulima says youths across the country who will ...

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Its important to be open about health matters – Lungu

Republican President Edgar Lungu says he would be the first to tell the nation if at all he felt that he was not in good health to handle the office of Head of State. Speaking in an interview with SABC’s Sophie Mokoena who noted that it was extra-ordinary that as head of state he been forthcoming and open about his ...

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