Continued from last week In a split second, I answered: “That field rank of major only, which is not junior and not so senior to be implicated in evil plans that give yield to wide...

By MARTIN NYIRENDA – Fanatics of condom distribution in Zambia’s prisons, no doubt, have their own agenda as much as such reformatory facilities should not be as ugly as sin. Make no gaffe, this piece...

By MIRIAM ZIMBA – WITH only a year to go before the due date for the Millennium Development Goals (MDG’s) in 2015, will the country beat this deadline. According to the 2013 MDG report for...

“What if” these are two very small words but possibly two of the most important words that an entrepreneur will use. Remember an entrepreneur is just a dreamer, the same as all of us, but...

THIS week we publish yet another conrtibution from Winston Muleba Jr who thought it wise to share something on the avoidance of lekages in exams. Cheating during examination is recurring almost every year, in various...

 By Neville Ravensdale – Accountability is perhaps one of the most pernicious problems facing Zambia, because the lack of it which results from carelessness and corruption and the cost of GRZ waste and corruption is...

By FLAVIOR CHISHALA – THE Ministry of Education, Science, Vocational Training and Early Education has embarked on a nationwide sensitisation campaign on the revised curriculum dubbed ‘Let us read Zambia’. The campaign is meant to...

By STEPHEN KAPAMBWE – It is a few minutes past 08:00 hours in the morning, the beginning of what would have been yet another ordinary day at the University Teaching Hospital (UTH) in Lusaka. But...

MORE than 314 million people worldwide live with low vision and blindness, and the fact that 90 per cent of these live in developing countries makes it an emergency requiring urgent attention. In Zambia, Standard...

BY POTIPHER TEMBO – SWARMS of flies are buzzing incessantly and myriads of maggots are crawling continually on uncollected garbage which has accumulated at markets in townships. Nearby, some marketeers are selling their merchandise while...