By MUNAMBEZA MUWANEI  and SAM PHIRI FOLLOWING an increase in the number of private colleges and universities, the demand for student accommodation has become the biggest challenge in the country. As a result of this...

By JULIUS PHIRI – PETAUKE Central is one of the three constituencies in Petauke District of Eastern Province. The constituency borders Kapoche and Msanzala constituencies on one side and on the other are Nyimba and...

I TRAVELLED to Israel recently and I was amazed. The country has little fresh water, is largely desert, it has no minerals to speak off and no oil. It is smaller than the Copperbelt Province...

By CHUSA SICHONE – EFFECTIVE primary healthcare is particularly important in resource-poor countries like Zambia because the delivery of vaccinations, maternal care and treatment of common diseases like malaria is essential for social and economic...

By CHARLES SIMENGWA – FLOYD Mayweather Jn has lately been in the news, not for his boxing prowess, but for his views on aid to Africa. The multi-millionaire has taken a lot of flak for...

By MILDRED KATONGO – AGRICULTURE is an important driver of economic growth in developing countries, Zambia included. Yet it is women who make up the majority of the small-scale farmers and produce up to 80...

By PRISCILLA SIMUKOKO – JUST a word that President Edgar Lungu will be in North Western Province to commission road works was enough to rekindle their hopes. Four districts including Solwezi, Kasempa, Chavuma and Zambezi...

By CHRISTINE MWAABA – SHE looks like she is on the brink of giving birth because of her mysterious condition which has left her sad and not being able to take part in activities that...

By SYLVIA MWEETWA – LACK of an isolation  ward at  Kabwe’s  Mukobeko Maximum  Prison has  forced  the  prison  command  to  mix  inmates  with confirmed  tuberculosis with  those who don’t have the disease. Officer-in-charge at Mukobeko...

By STEPHEN MUKOBEKO and JULIUS PHIRI – IT is almost four years since the people of Malambo Constituency in Mambwe District in Eastern Province went to the polls to choose their representative in the National...