WE hail President Edgar Lungu’s directive to the newly-appointed Defence Minister Richwell Siamunene to ignore baseless criticism and concentrate on transforming the operations of the defence forces. This is in view of numerous armchair critics...

GOVERNMENT should be applauded for taking a bold step to cancel prospective mining licence to VEN Mining of Katoka Mema Mine and subsequently handing it over to the community of Kasempa in North-Western Province. Government’s...

A NATION that does not value its women is likely to lag behind in development, United States of America President Barack Obama recently observed when he visited Kenya. Indeed governments, civil society and corporate institutions...

THE trend obtaining currently of contractors failing to execute works on schedule is beginning to give an impression that things are deteriorating in the country. Not so because of poor Government policies, but because of...

IT is gratifying to learn that the Zambia Environmental Management Agency (ZEMA) is working with the Forestry Department in a bid to control charcoal burning before the forests gets depleted. This is a timely intervention....

EVERYTIME there are rumours of job losses or shutdowns in the mining sector, an atmosphere of despair is created. This is because the mining sector contributes massively to employment creation and the economy of the...

ISN’T it the famous English playwright William Shakespeare who wrote that ‘all is well that ends well’? Finally, Henry Sosala has defied all odds by completing his tortuous odyssey of ascending to the throne after...

THERE has been much talk about the Eurobond in the recent past, Zambian citizens have expressed mixed concerns about the usage of the said funds. Some people have outrightly condemned the acquisition and subsequent usage...

ZAMBIA adopted the National Decentralisation Policy in 2002 and launched it in 2004 with a commitment to implement it in a period of 10 years. The full implementation of the decentralisation policy means devolving functions...

DISCIPLINE is an unequivocal pre-requisite of success in any endeavor, including business. It is discipline which makes one focus on what they embark on and remain determined to see it to a logical and positive...