RURAL electrification is the process of bringing electrical power to rural and remote areas of any part of the country. Electricity is used not only for lighting and household purposes, but it also allows for mechanisation of many farming operations, such as well-pumping, threshing, milking, and hoisting grain for storage, which mostly defines the business
By JAMES KUNDA - THE Government recorded payments of more than K9 billion from mining companies countrywide in 2015, a Zambia Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) summary for that year has revealed. According to the report, of the K9 billion, Copper and Cobalt producers contributed K7.8 billion, calculated as 86 percent. The report said the
By HAMATAN KACHABE - INFORMATION and Broadcasting Services Minister Kampamba Mulenga has urged permanent secretaries to employ permanent public relations practioners (PRs) and put them in management. Ms Mulenga said PR was an important profession in information dissemination between Government wings and the general citizenry. The minister said without these officers, it would be very
By CHILA NAMAIKO - PARLIAMENT yesterday unanimously approved a K70.5 million State House budget for 2018 with Vice-President Inonge Wina warning ‘presidential aspirants’ in the House to stop muddying President Edgar Lungu’s name with false corruption allegations to gain political mileage. Winding up debates on the estimates of revenue and expenditure of State House, Ms
By CHILA NAMAIKO - PARLIAMENTARIANS have called on Rural Electrification Authority (REA) to roll out a larger segment of the earmarked 7,000 kilometre (km) grid extension programme to light up rural-based constituencies unlike those in the urban set-up. Members of Parliament (MPs) whose constituencies were in rural areas are hopeful that enhancing the rural electrification
By REBECCA MUSHOTA - A DAY before the occasion of the third anniversary of his passing on, the family. friends and ordinary citizens have begun paying tribute to the late President Michael Sata. Mr Sata died on October 28, 2014. His son, Mulenga, said his father was a “genius” who knew how to simplify complicated
THE Namibian government has seized and destroyed more than 95 000 bottles of fake Johnnie Walker whiskey and Smirnoff vodka destined for the Zambian market. The counterfeit products were in transit from United States of America and Dubai to Zambia and ...
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