Top news items in major Zambian media outlets

The following are the highlights of Zambia's major media outlets on Tuesday.

-- Zambian President Edgar Lungu has renamed a university in Mwense district in Luapula Province after late President Fredrick Chiluba.

Luapula as renamed Luapula University FTJ University in honor of the late president whom he described as the father of democracy in Zambia.

Lungu, during a campaign rally in the district where Chiluba was born, said he decided to rename the university to honor him, adding that the late president was a tested leader who spent years serving as a trade union leader before leading Zambia for 10 years.

Chiluba, who was fondly called FTJ ruled Zambia from 1991 to 2001. He died on June 18, 2011. (TIMES OF ZAMBIA)

-- The Zambian government is in the process of developing a national industrial policy aimed at promoting manufacturing to create jobs for the people.

Minister of Commerce, Trade and Industry Margaret Mwanakatwe said the policy comprises of various initiatives aimed at boosting industrialization.

The policy, she said, intends to scale up the local processing of goods and value addition to raw materials such as agricultural products so that Zambia could start exporting high value finished products. (ZAMBIA DAILY MAIL)

-- Zambia's main opposition leader has expressed concern over the continued barbaric and heinous spate of violence against women and promised that he will end the vice if he won next month's elections.

Hakainde Hichilema, leader of the main opposition United Party for National Development (UPND), said his government will firmly deal with perpetrators of gender based violence which had seen some women being stripped naked in public.

He said violence against women could easily lead to the breakdown of the rule of law and it was important that such vices were eradicated.

Zambians have expressed outrage over a video that has gone viral on social media where men are seen brutalizing a woman. (DAILY NATION) Endit