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 UNKNOWN criminals have stolen a Mercedes Benz belonging to a 42-year-old woman of Lusaka. The victim is believed to have parked the car somewhere in Kamwala and when going back, she found a male and a female in the passenger driving off with it. Also stolen along with the vehicle was an infinx cellphone of […]

By PRINCE MABUMBA

The Zambia National Farmers’ Union (ZNFU) has urged Government to expedite distribution of fertiliser to enable farmers adequately prepare for the 2023-2024 agricultural season. 

ZNFU Public Relations Manager, Calvin Kaleyi told Millennium TV news in an interview that perennial late distribution of farming inputs was negatively affecting farmers in terms of preparation for the agricultural season.

“First of all, we support the process of ensuring that the procurement processes become flawless. We accept the process of making the procurement processes become without blemish and without corruption and so on.

“What we envisage, what we would like to see is the actualisation of the plans to procure the fertilisers on time. As it is right now this is March, we should be seeing adverts for tenders, people that want to supply fertilisers, the seed and other agriculture chemicals,” Mr Kaleyi said

He advised Government to actualise plans to distribute inputs by June or July this year.

“We would not like to see a situation in which we are in at the moment where fertilisers were being distributed in February and farmers were sharing fertiliser by opening a 50 kilogramme bag and sharing it,” Mr Kaleyi said.

He commended President Hakainde Hichilema for taking bold steps to avoid recurrence of the teething problems that his New Dawn administration encountered in the 2022-2023 farming season.

Mr Kaleyi also said Government should immediately award contracts for the supply of farming inputs instead of waiting for December to select preferred bidders.

 TWO juveniles aged 5 and 13 have allegedly been defiled in separate incidents in Kitwe’s Kawama and Chipata compounds. In the first case a 5 year old girl of Kawama was defiled by an unknown person who broke into their house by removing three mud bricks. The house was broken into on Monday between 00:00 […]

 CRIMINALS in Lusaka has gone away with K1 million which was stolen from a Toyota Mark X that was parked along Great East Road belonging to a businessman. The incident occurred Sunday around 14:30 hours at East Park Mall. The victim Ken Phiri, a businessman of Yatu Equity is believed to have left the money […]

By GIDEON NYENDWA

GOVERNMENT says Zambia is likely to undergo serious economic transformation and industrialisation that has potential to exert pressure on its environment in the in the next few decades.

The government is therefore calling on institutions mandated to ensure there is environmental sustainability and pollution control delivered on their mandate.

Minister of Green Economy and Environment, Collins Nzovu said the targets the UPND government has set for economic development especially the goal to increase production of Copper to three million tonnes per annum in the next decade has potential to put pressure on the environment and institutions charged with the responsibility to protect the environment.

Mr Nzovu said this when he signed performance contracts between the ministry and the Zambia Environmental Management Agency (ZEMA) Board.

Mr Nzovu said the contract that was signed was intended to aid ZEMA in attaining the onerous and noble task set out in section 9 of the environmental management act no. 12 of 2011, which was to ensure the sustainable management of natural resources and protection of the environment as well as the prevention and control of pollution.

And ZEMA Board Chairperson professor Lovejoy Malambo pledged to work according to the wishes of the government and to the mandate of the institution.

Prof Malambo said ZEMA was in line with the mandate from the government.

Twoportraits of Albert Einstein hang on the walls of a makeshift laboratory on Nairobi’s outskirts, inspiring a pair of self-taught Kenyan innovators who have built a bio-robotic prosthetic arm out of electronic scrap.

The recent kidnapping of four Americans in Mexico highlights a common practice for many people in the U.S.: traveling to other countries for medical care that either is not available at home or costs a lot less.

The Biden administration is preparing to relax COVID-19 testing restrictions for travelers from China as soon as Friday, according to two people familiar with the decision.

The recall affects nearly 2,900 bottles that were distributed “via online e-commerce and Trade shows (Ex. Amazon Marketplace, Etc.).”

The strongest factor was “hidden emotional signals” as their make-up tends to hide their emotions, thus creating some sense of uncertainty, the researchers noted.