CHIPOLOPOLO skipper Rainford Kalaba and Lubambo Musonda are expected to jet in today as the team intensified training ahead of the Gabon 2017 Africa Cup of Nations qualifier against Kenya on Sunday in Nairobi. FAZ communications manager Nkweto Tembwe said the TP Mazembe trio of Kalaba, Chongo Kabaso and Nathan Sinkala were expected to […]
Archive | August, 2015
President Lungu takes to golf
Posted on 31 August 2015.
About 120 golfers yesterday participated in the PF fund-raising tournament at State House that was teed-off by President Edgar Lungu to raise money for the operations of the party. And President Lungu has declared his intentions to start playing golf as soon as the State House golf course was worked on to improve its condition. […]
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Cartel buys planes, Pajeros
Posted on 31 August 2015.
AN order for five helicopters and 50 Pajero vehicles has been placed by the cartel ahead of the 2016 general and Presidential elections which they have vowed to win at all costs. It has also been revealed that as part of the mobilisation programme, cadres from a named political party have been sent to […]
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Nation under siege
Posted on 31 August 2015.
Nation under siege Zambia is under siege for the hearts and minds of the people and billions of dollars most of it from dubious sources will be employed to ensure regime change in 2016 or sooner. So far a mobilization programme involving the recruitment, training and installation of agents in society to preach and promote […]
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Zambian diplomat dies in Botswana
Posted on 31 August 2015.
A Zambian diplomat based in Gaborone Botswana has died, Ministry of Foreign Affairs public relations officer, Dorcas Chileshe has announced. Ms. Theresa Funga 48 is said to have died in her sleep in the early hours of Saturday. In a statement to the Daily Nation yesterday, Zambian High Commissioner to Botswana Brigadier General […]
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FRA buys 46% maize target
Posted on 31 August 2015.
The Food Reserve Agency (FRA) has so far bought over 200,000 metric tonnes of maize with Agriculture permanent Secretary David Shamulenge saying the overwhelming response by farmers to opt for FRA rather than private buyers was as a result of President Edgar Lungu’s move to increase the price from the initial K70 to K75 […]
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Kabimba misusing Sata’s name -Chama
Posted on 31 August 2015.
RAINBOW Party leader Wynter Kabimba should stop using the name of late president Michael Sata in vain because he (Kabimba) is the man together with his allies who betrayed the late president by taking advantage of his medical state to scheme to take away the presidency, the Patriotic Front (PF) has charged. The PF has […]
Low water cuts Zimbabwe Kariba power plant output
Posted on 31 August 2015.
HARARE – The Zimbabwe Power Company (ZPC) will cut electricity generation by a third to 475 megawatts (MW) at the Kariba hydro power plant due to low water levels, the company said on Thursday, and this is likely to worsen daily power cuts. Kariba produces half of Zimbabwe’s electricity. The cutback will also affect Zambia […]
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Govt to reduce public pay size
Posted on 31 August 2015.
GOVERNMENT has released the 2016-2018 Medium Term Expenditure Frameworks (MTEF) with a clear message that will see the reduction of the size of the public pay to 8.4 percent of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) which has been gobbling more than half of the National Budget. The MTEF would also see increased investment in the […]
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Biogas technologies sanitation solutions
Posted on 31 August 2015.
Government should support and adopt innovations aimed at curbing escalating challenges of sanitation and waste management in the country through the use of biogas technologies and bio-latrines, the Water and Sanitation Association of Zambia (WASAZA) has said. WASAZA chief administrative Officer Jonathan Phiri has the use of biogas technology was better than sewer lines […]
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