Kapiri TOP Stories

13/08/2024

FORMER FIRST LADY MAUREEN MWANAWASA DIES

It's with deepest and profound sadness and sorrow that the Mwanawasa and Kakubo family announce the untimely passing of our beloved mother, sister, aunt, and Former First Lady of the Republic of Zambia, Mrs Maureen Kakubo Mwanawasa.

Mrs Mwanawasa passed away this evening at Maina Soko Medical Centre after a short illness.

The funeral gathering is at her residence in Roma Park. More details will be communicated in due course.

Hon. Stanley K. Kakubo MP
Family Spokesperson.

17/06/2024

BREAKING: Loss of power supply in some parts of the country is due to constraints on SAPP interconnected network. - ZESCO

13/06/2024

Degree programs will now take three years to complete under the new education curriculum.

06/06/2024

World Bank gives ZESCO US$100-million grant

By Masauso Mkwayaya

The World Bank has given ZESCO a 100 million U.S Dollar grant to improve the utility's financial performance and operational reliability.

The grant will also partly support the Rural Electrification Authority -REA- with strengthening the implementation of the Rural Electrification Fund.

World Bank Country Director NATHAN BELETE says the support will further enhance Zambia's procurement processes for non-hydropower renewable energy projects.

Mr. BELETE says the support, which is under the National Energy Advancement and Transformation -NEAT- Programme, is part of the 10-year 700-million U.S Dollar facility aimed at increasing the financial sustainability, operational reliability, and resilience of the electricity sector in Zambia.

He said this when he and Finance and National Planning Minister SITUMBEKO MUSOKOTWANE signed the programme's first phase, which will be implemented from 2024 to 2026.

Speaking at the same event, Dr. MUSOKOTWANE said the key activities of the project include supporting ZESCO to manage its debt and arrears, optimising operational costs and reducing the upfront cost of connecting new customers through a grid connection subsidy.

Dr. MUSOKOTWANE said the support will also help the establishment of the Rural Electrification Fund -REF- which will catalyse the electrification of rural communities.

At the same event, Mr. BELETE and Dr. MUSOKOTWANE also signed a 150 million U.S Dollar financing agreement for the Girls' Education and Women's Empowerment and Livelihoods for Human Capital Project -GEWEL 2.

GEWEL -2 aims to deepen human capital growth and promote the productivity of the poorest and most vulnerable Zambians for longer-term development outcomes.

31/05/2024

ERB maintains the pump price for petrol at K35.56 while diesel goes up from K29.60 to K31.11.

29/05/2024

DAN P**E AND 4 OTHERS ARRESTED

May 29, 2024 - Police in Lusaka have charged and arrested Dan P**e, 70, of New Kasama in Lusaka for one count of Expressing Hate speech based on tribe and one count of Seditious Practices.

Dr. P**e has been detained in custody waiting for court appearance.
Meanwhile, Police have officially charged and arrested Lumezi Member of Parliament Munir Zulu and his Mfuwe Constituency counterpart Maureen Mubonga for the offences of Expressing Hate speech based on tribe and Seditious Practices while Edith Nawakwi and Brebner Changala have each been charged with the offence of Seditious Practices.

All the suspects are detained in Police custody waiting to appear in court.

Danny Mwale
Deputy Police Public Relations Officer

28/05/2024

28/05/2024

FULL DETAILS UPDATE ON JAYJAY BANDA
..he was dumped by his abductors in Kafue, he is critical...

shortly before midnight , Hon. Jayjay Banda in a lot of pain, called his mother.

The mother to Jayjay then spoke to the owner of the phone who gave the location which disclosed that JayJay Banda had crawled up their house shortly before midnight and called for help.
The family had to call scream for neighbours who came and began to help. He could only remember his mother's number.

The location were houses on the road to Kafue Boys off Kafue Main Road near Chita Lodge in Kafue District.

Members of the family rushed to Kafue. They found that the Zambia Police from Kafue had moved him from that house to Kafue District Hospital.

At this stage, the Police Command directed that JayJay Banda be moved from Kafue District Hospital to UTH or Maina Soko.

The family rejected the proposal.

At this stage JJ was moved in a convoy of family, some PF leaders and the Police had joined in. One car was involved in an accident along the way.

At this stage, Hon. Munir Zulu and Hon. Binwell Mpundu had joined the family.

Around 03;30hrs, while some leaders led by Hon. Brian Mundubile and Amb. Emmanuel Mwamba were waiting at UTH, they were informed that JJ arrived at Medlands Hospital.
The team at UTH rushed to Medlands Hospital where doctors were beginning to do emergence preliminary treatment.

There was heightened confusion as the Police demanded that JayJay be evacuated to Maina Soko and the family said JJ was in a serious state of trauma and it was not safe to move him away from from the hospital.

A team led by Lusaka Police Commissioner sealed off the entrances of the hospital.

The doctors at Medlands demanded that everyone leave so that they could take JJ to Intensive Care Unit after CTC Scan and X-ray.

While JayJay was in the Scan room, there was a stand-off as the Lusaka Police Commissioner said he had fresh instructions from State House to immediately shift JJ to Main

25/05/2024

Load shedding has been extended from the current Eight (8) hours toTwelve (12) hours.
(Byta FM)

22/05/2024

SAD: Mast Newspaper fails to print its hard copy due to power interruptions

22/05/2024

TRENDING!
increased load-shedding to 12 hours!

22/05/2024

Kapiri Mposhi Town urban roads will also be constructed to bituminous standard during the construction of dual carriage way