Zambia National Students’ Union (ZANASU) president Joseph Busenga says if Higher Education Minister Professor Nkandu Luo wants to abolish unions in colleges and universities, she should further propose the dissolution of Cabinet and Parliament. In a statement, Busenga charged that Prof Luo was having vivid imagination of students bodies being militias. "A union is a...

An Ethiopian Newspaper, the Daily Monitor, has published a full broadsheet page article detailing how Zambia’s President Edgar Lungu is sliding the country into a dictatorial path, “which will be hard to get out of”. And when contacted for a comment, Zambia's First Secretary for Press at the Embassy in Ethiopia Inutu Mwanza said her...

The Ministry of Home Affairs through the Immigration Department says that no church or faith based organization will be registered or allowed to operate without a letter of support from the Ministry of National Guidance and Religious Affairs. This came to light at the opening of a two-day meeting for church mother bodies and religious...

The office of the Vice-President in conjunction with the Zambia Red Cross Society has commissioned the Strengthening Emergency Response Project (SERP) aimed at enhancing community disaster management. During the commissioning of the Project in Lusaka yesterday, Vice-President Inonge Wina said in a speech read for her by the Minister in her office Sylvia Chalikosa that...

Patriotic Front (PF) Lawyer Kelvin Bwalya Fube has warned that Higher Education Minister Professor Nkandu Luo’s proposal to abolish college and university students' unions will lead to more violence in institutions of higher learning. And KBF says although the decision by President Edgar Lungu to declare a Threatened State of Public Emergency was welcome, police...

Commerce, Trade and Industry Minister Margaret Mwanakatwe has formed a Civil Service and Allied Workers of Zambia Saving and Credit Cooperative Society Limited (CSAWZ-SACCOS) whose core mandate will be to improve members’ standard of living through financial cooperation. Speaking when she launched the CSAWZ-SACCOS, Mwanakatwe said the move to form the cooperation endorsed governments’ cherished...