By KASONDE KASONDEMU  – MULUNGUSHI University Chancellor Oliver Saasa said the Government’s role in the delivery of quality tertiary education is crucial for national development. Professor Saasa thanked the ministry of finance for the proposed...

By  Yuyi Libakeni – I HAVE personally known Alexander B. Chikwanda, ABC as he is popularly known, for some fifty-five years now. We first met at Munali Secondary School in 1958 for our Senior Secondary....

Zambia’s energy sector has over the past 50 years made landmark contributions to the country’s historic milestones that have significantly influenced the evolution of our country’s social and economic landscape. With this background, it can...

By FREDRICK MUBANGA – In the past 50 years, the road transport system in Zambia has undergone great transformation, which has come as a result of both political and economic changes. With the political changes,...

THE noble function of supplying water and sanitation services to Lusaka town was managed by then Lusaka Municipal Council under the Engineering department until 1988 when Lusaka Water and Sewerage Company (LWSC) took over the...

BY CLEMENT MUMA MATENGU? – IN a rather fundamental sense, agricultural progress is normally a pre-requisite for industrial development. This is clearly the case in a closed economy, where one of the most important pre-conditions...

ON October 23, 1964 the Zambian flag was raised signifying the birth?of a new country with Kenneth Kaunda becoming the first Republican?president. The major political parties then included the United National Independence Party (UNIP), African...

PEOPLE of the newly created Luano District of the Central Province lived like refugees in their own country as if Zambia did not attain independence on October 24, 1964. This was so because of the...

By SYLVIA MWEETWA – THE Bible says in Psalms 33: 12 “Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord and the people He chose for His inheritance”. As Zambia celebrates the Golden Jubilee, Zambians...

By GETHSEWMANE MWIZABI – APOLLO Hospital, Asia’s foremost healthcare provider, has marked a new beginning in diagnosis of Breast Cancer by launching South Asia’s first-of-its-kind, full-field digital mammography with Tomosynthesis (3D) system at Apollo Speciality...