By Prof Oliver Saasa – Venerated novelist, essayist and critic George Orwell once said, “If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”Among the...

WITH prices of food and other edibles like cooking oil soaring, the war in Ukraine has created a great potential for Zambia to flood the market and make money from selling palm oil.The country can...

By MOSES CHIMFWEMBE – ELIMINATING ignorance on sexual and reproductive health (SRH) among the young people in Luapula Province is crucial to stamping out early marriages and teenage pregnancy, Chief Kalasa Lukangaba of the Ushi...

By STEPHEN KAPAMBWE –Low temperatures associated with winter often lead to an increase in burns.Recently, the Zambia Metrological Department issued an alert that the country would experience low temperatures that required people to keep warm...

By Runako CelinaThere’s something inherently sinister in swanning into a village somewhere in Africa, tossing a few coins at people less privileged than you and being able to instruct them to do whatever you want.If...

By MARTIN NYIERNDA – IN 2018, Government spent K2 billion on maintaining and servicing its fleet of vehicles.This scenario outlines the depth of abuse of Government resources which one of the factors that led to...

By STEPHEN KAPAMBWE – “This is not just another city. This is Lusaka, the capital city of Zambia,” declared South Africa’s first elected black President Nelson Mandela on his arrival in Lusaka on February 27,...

630,000 unintended pregnancies and 158,000 unsafe abortions have been prevented because of the use of modern methods of contraception in Zambia, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) has disclosed.Zambia has continued to strive to ensure...

The recent Johnny Depp verses Amber Heard verdict in the United States (US) saw women movements recount tales of abuse during the trial as more talk suggested that it was an indictment on their movements.Alas...

INSECURITY, coupled with and women’s economic dependence on their partners, has also influenced their attitude and ability to suggest taking an HIV test with their partners.Currently, we do not need numbers to prove that there...