No jobs or Visas for youths who will refuse to undergo compulsory ZNS training – Kambwili
Youth and Sports Minister Chishimba Kambwili has maintained that the compulsory skills training for school leavers at Zambia National Service will go ahead as planned. And Kambwili has explained that once the programme is implemented, no school leaver will be considered for employment or issued with a visa without undergoing ZNS training first. Mr. Kambwili [...]
A Drug Enforcement Commission (DEC) Officer has told the Lusaka Magistrate Court that he did not have expert knowledge when he told the media that the contraband seized from the two Bolivian nationals by the commission was first grade cocaine. Samuel Silomba, 35, who is Public Relations Officer at DEC, told the court that the statement [...]
Continue reading …The Council of Elders in Northwestern provinces has also rejected the PF government unilateral imposition of the minimum wage for domestic, shop and general workers by over 100 per cent. Council chairman Lukas Chikoti said the government’s revision of minimum wages and conditions of service for domestic, shop and general workers was not done in [...]
Continue reading …Men armed with pistols and iron bars have staged a robbery at Choma Breweries stealing about K217 million cash after blowing up a safe box with explosives. The thieves are said to have tied up a security guard before stealing the money. Choma Police Commanding Officer Moffat Zimba confirmed the theft to ZANIS today. Mr [...]
Continue reading …Finance Deputy minister Miles Sampa is offering a reward of K15 million for information on the killing of a NIPA student Ruth Mbangu. Ruth Mbangu was murdered in unclear circumstances last week. The naked body of the 19-year-old was discovered dumped near her home in Emmasdale, Lusaka, with eyes poked out and the skin of [...]
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The Supreme Court has adjourned to August 28, 2012 the case involving the suspension of High Court Jugdes Charles Kajimanga and Nigel Mutuna as well as Supreme Court Judge Philip Musonda. The Supreme Court has also deferred the matter involving the K14 billion which DPP Mutembo Nchito, Post newspaper owner Fred M’membe and other owe the Development Bank of Zambia. The [...]
Continue reading …By Jonathan Mukuka and Chimwemwe Simpito Kenneth Kaunda secondary school pupils in Chinsali Tuesday morning riot ran amock destroying propertyand beating up girls from their dormitories. Both Muchinga province deputy commissioner of police Chilije Nyirenda and Chinsali district commissioner Evelyn Kangwa have confirmed the development in separate interviews in Chinsali today. Mr. Nyirenda and Ms. Kangwa who rushed to [...]
Continue reading …In the state of confusion, cabinet have made Agriculture Minister, Emmanuel Chenda as the Acting president because Defence Minister Goeffrey Mwamba (GBM) and Finance Minister, Alexander Chikwanda, have also travelled to UK in what is reported as going for graduation ceremony of their children. Guy Scott is around but sidelined as is the custom in [...]
Continue reading …ASTREA Investment Limited (AIL) plans to set up a limestone production plant in Masaiti to supplement the current demand of the commodity by the mining and agricultural sectors at a cost about US$8 million. The company is expected to commence construction immediately the Zambia Environmental Management Agency (ZEMA) approval is granted. The project is expected [...]
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THE National Airports Corporation Limited (NACL) has testified that it advised against former Minister of Communications and Transport Dora Siliya’s proposal to allow Selex Systemi Integrati to repair gratis the radar systems at Kenneth Kaunda and Harry Mwaanga Nkumbula International airports because it had hidden costs. NACL managing director Robinson Misitala, 47, of Lusaka’s Olympia [...]
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