University of Zambia Students’ Union (UNZASU) President Gabriel Banda has lamented that the school of education at the highest institution of learning has been neglected in the awarding of students loans for the year 2022. Mr. Banda who is fondly known as the special counsel among the student populace has charged that only eleven students from the department were awarded ...

ZESCO limited says it is now ready to meet the ever increasing demand for power generation in the wake of new economic facilities like factories and manufacturing plants in Zambia. Company Spokesperson Henry Kapata says this comes after the completion of nine sub-stations under the Lusaka Transmission and Distribution Rehabilitation Project (LTDRP) at a cost of  us$ 246 million. Speaking ...

GEARS Initiative Zambia Executive Director Mcdonald Chipenzi says the move by government to vote for the un resolution that calls for the immediate withdrawal of Russian forces from Ukraine is a symbol of decisive leadership. Mr. Chipenzi says the new dawn government should be commended because the invasion of Ukraine by Russia cannot be paid a blind eye to because ...

The Private Sector Development Association (PSDA) has predicted that fuel prices in the country will continue to escalate if the geopolitical tension between Ukraine and Russian continues to drag.  Association Chairperson Yusuf Dodia says as a result of the on-going tension between the two countries, the private sector in Zambia will soon start feeling the pinch of the high cost ...

Biathlete Grygorii Vovchynskyi put in a superb display to win Ukraine’s first gold medal of the Winter Paralympics in Beijing. Vovchynskyi, 33, triumphed in the men’s sprint standing event at the Zhangjiakou National Biathlon Centre. The Ukraine team travelled to China despite the Russian invasion of their country, which began on 24 February. “It was difficult for me when the ...

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has told the BBC that he is convinced Ukraine can win its war with Russia. He could not say how long the conflict would last, but insisted that Ukraine’s defeat was not inevitable. Mr Blinken praised the “extraordinary resilience” of the Ukrainian people. “If it’s the intention of Moscow to try somehow to topple ...

Liverpool, Glasgow and London were among the places to double as Gotham City during the filming of The Batman, as a growing number of British locations are given starring roles in blockbuster movies. One day in October 2020, onlookers in Liverpool looked up to see a mysterious figure dressed in black standing on top of the city’s famous Liver Building. ...

When Nigerian Afrobeats star Davido talks about music he is calm and collected. But bring up politics or charity work and he jumps out of his chair. “I’ve been doing music for 11 years,” he told the BBC’s DJ Edu. “Other things kind of excite me more,” he continued, while insisting that he was still committed to making music. He ...

I saw a steady stream of people coming into Poland from Ukraine at one of the points where you can cross on foot. Most were in small groups, families but also people who had met on the journey. I asked one young man, Nikita, how he had managed to avoid the restrictions on men of fighting age leaving Ukraine – ...

Minister of Commerce, Trade and Industry Chipoka Mulenga says the new dawn administration values the participation of women in the governance of the country. In an interview with QTV news, Mr. Mulenga says society does not know and respect gender, but only knows people that stand up and are ready to be counted in the developmental agenda of the country. ...