The Zambia National Service (ZNS) is a strategic institution that has played a critical role in safeguarding the country, ensuring food security and youth skills training, among other activities.During the UNIP government, ZNS was well...

PRUDENT management of public resources should be everybody’s priority, as one of the cost saving measures in the country.Particularly, that Zambia is drowning in at least $12 billion in external debt, $2.1 billion to multilateral...

THE onset of the rainy season has brought with it a lot of joy especially for the farmers who have lived the last month or two in fear of poor harvest this farming season due...

IT is common knowledge that one of the reasons that led to the Patriotic Front losing power to the United Party for National Development in the August 12, 2021, general elections is the wanton lawlessness...

A WELL modelled Kasenseli Gold mine project is critical to Zambia’s economic turnaround.The discovery of gold deposits at the Mwinilunga based mine has excited a lot of stakeholders.Alas, the way the mine was modeled left...

CORRUPTION remains an enemy that costs countries’ resources, denies people what rightfully belongs to them and fuels inequality by promoting unjust empowerment of those who are ready to part away with bribes.Yesterday, Zambia joined the...

LATELY, the debate on the anticipated International Monetary Fund (IMF)’s bailout package for Zambia has taken centre stage.While similar talks were there years back under former President Edgar Lungu’s administration, the topic has almost reached...

On Friday last week, the IMF and Zambia reached a staff level agreement on a US$1.4 billion debt bailout package.Subsequently, Government announced the removal of subsidies on fuel, electricity and agriculture as part of measures...

AT long last, Zambia has changed the narrative about having no national airline for more than two decades.This follows the launch of Zambia Airways since it was liquidated in 1994.A basic research shows that in...

LISTENING to President Hakainde Hichilema lamentation over the breakdown of the principles of public governance and respect for public assets made one think that the problem could be more than meets the eye.As an outsider,...