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Saturday, 13 June 2015

Miss World Zimbabwe 2015 EMILY KACHOTE dethroned over nude photo leak

According to local reports, Miss World Zimbabwe – Emily Kachote has been stripped off her crown due to a nude photo leak.

According to the Miss Zimbabwe Trust, the beauty queen was dethroned because of the photos leaked via Whatsapp stating the 25-year-old competition winner engaged in “immoral behavior”.

By Staff Reporter

A renowned African entrepreneur, Tony O. Elumelu, the Chairman of United Bank of Africa (UBA) and Founder of the Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF) was in Zambia on Thursday for a few hours business visit.

During his visit, he met some UBA customers and Zambia's prominent business executives at a cocktail party held at Taji Pamodzi Hotel in Lusaka organized by UBA Zambia team.

Take education seriously and become better citizens, Dr Kasonde urges children

Acting Minister of Labour and Social Security Joseph Kasonde has urged children to take education seriously so that they can become better citizens when they grow up.

Speaking during the commemoration of the 2015 World Day Against Child Labour in Lusaka today, Dr. Kasonde said government has made moderate achievements in the fight against child labour through hiring of 55 new labour officers in various districts.

In 2012 Monica Musonda left her 15-year career as a successful commercial lawyer to return to her home country Zambia and set up a food processing company, Java Foods. The company supplies the market with the eeZee instant noodles brand.

According to Musonda one of the motives behind her decision to venture into food processing was based on how unexploited the sector is in the country.

Dr. Jane Mutanga-Mutembo, a doctoral student in epidemiology at the University of Georgia College of Public Health, has been awarded the 2015-2016 Schlumberger Foundation Faculty for the Future Fellowship.

The one-year renewable grant provides female scientists from developing and emerging countries up to $50,000 to pursue advanced degrees in science, technology, engineering or mathematics—commonly known as STEM—fields.

Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II will this month award two young Zambians with the first ever Queen’s Young Leaders Award, in honour of their community service.

Brighton Kaoma UNICEF Zambia Youth Facilitator and Regina Mtonga, Co-founder of Asikana Network, will be among 60 young people from across the Commonwealth to be awarded by Her Majesty the Queen at Buckingham Palace on 21 June.

Lecturers at the University of Zambia (UNZA) have insisted that they will not conduct assessment for the final examination until their contractual obligations are met.

University of Zambia Lecturers and Researchers Union (NUZALRU) president Esten Chiputa said the members have refused to conduct examinations until their demands are met.