Zambia’s new government will deliver its first budget on November 11 after a delay of several weeks due to the September 20 election victory of long-term opposition leader Michael Sata, a senior official said on Thursday. Secretary to the Treasury Fredson Yumba told Reuters the budget was “definitely set for next week, Friday 11th November”. [...]
Members of Parliament from the Northern Province have welcomed the appointment of Emmanuel Mwamba as Permanent Secretary for the province after meeting him today. And the Watchdog has been informed that the UPND is putting extreme pressure of party youth coordinator Brian Hapunda to turn down his appointment as High Commissioner to South Africa. Meanwhile, [...]
Continue reading …Kano – A 1-month-old baby, said to hold a diploma, was on the Nigerian government payroll, officials have discovered, exposing the levels to which corruption runs in Africa’s most populous country. The name of the infant was recently found on the payment voucher of a local government council in northern Nigeria during an exercise to [...]
Continue reading …Copper-rich Zambia’s new president should back up his anti-Chinese rhetoric with steps to ensure workers at Chinese-owned mines in this southern African country are safe and adequately paid, Human Rights Watch said Thursday. In a 122-page report, “‘You’ll Be Fired If You Refuse’: Labor Abuses in Zambia’s Chinese State-owned Copper Mines,” the international rights watchdog [...]
Continue reading …UN resident coordinator in Zambia Kanni Wignaraja says no country can attain higher levels of human development where many of its women citizens lag behind, cannot fully participate in the economic or political life of the country on equal terms or feel disempowered. Wignaraja, who is also UNDP Resident Representative, says Zambian women are underrepresented [...]
Continue reading …‘The half of the 90 days PF development plan has been spent on terminating people’s jobs as opposed to creating employment, appointing relatives and friends, and persecuting Rupiah Banda and company at the expense of national development’ he explained.
He said the PF government seems to have forgotten about the campaign promises they made to the people of Zambia such as creating jobs for the youths, putting more money in people’s pockets, giving the people of Zambia a new constitution in 90 days, honoring the Barotse agreement in 90 days and fighting corruption.
Continue reading …Former minister of information Lieutenant General Shikapwasha has accused president Michael Sata of failing to state clearly if under his reign Zambia’ status as a Christian nation will be maintained. And Shikapwasha has accused the PF government of single-sourcing the director general of the Zambian National broadcasting corporation (ZNBC). Shikapwasha told parliament Wednesday that the [...]
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