By FRED PHIRI – THE liberation struggle for Zambia’s independence is what one can term a paradox for most freedom fighters. Walk along the streets of Zambia or enter a shop in your location, you...

By HAPPY MULOLANI  – MUSHROOM is a cash crop that is rain-fed and more recently, smallholder farmers have taken to growing it in mushroom houses under humid and fresh-air conditions. This follows calls by the...

By CHIMANGENI BANDA – ONE school of thought intimates that “there was absolutely nothing magical about the time when Northern Rhodesia, like a snake, shade its outer skin to become the Republic of Zambia” at...

BY TERENCE MUSUKU – FIRST Quantum Minerals has reached 100 girls through its annual Girls empowerment camp called Girls Leading Our World (Glow), purposely for empowering the vulnerable girls aged between 12 and 18, with...

IT is almost evident that the country has made significant progress in achieving the 2015 Millennium Development Goal (MDG) number seven, part C, of reducing by half the proportion of the population without sustainable access...

By MARTIN NYIRENDA – ZAMBIA will not be wise enough to quit the metamorphosis of certainty for an uncertainty. Previous regimes, to some extent, failed to marry the important role of traditional leaders in their...

By STANSLOUS NGOSA – SENIOR Chief Mushota of Kawambwa District in Luapula Province has called on Government to send more qualified staff to health institutions in the area to improve delivery of quality healthcare services....

FOLLOWING a dismal performance by the boxers at the 2014 Commonwealth Games that was staged in Glasgow, Scotland in July, it is time for the pugilists to make amends as they prepare to take part...

When Elton Nyirenda unexpectedly called to tell me about the forthcoming Chengelo International School’s musical drama Tiyende Pamodzi the Musical, I was highly thrilled, primarily for one reason; it’s been a long time since I...

ZAMBIA has continued to register economic growth, stability in the policy environment and prudent fiscal management, according to a latest report by Fitch, which is one of the top global economy rating agencies. Fitch recently...