• 15 Feb 2018
• Mirriam Chabala

I would rather stand alone than with unfaithful soldiers like Antonio - Nawakwi

Forum for Democracy and Development (FDD) president Edith Nawakwi says she would rather stand alone than be surrounded by a battalion of unfaithful soldiers like her immediate passed Spokesperson Antonio Mwanza. And Nawakwi says the Patriotic Front government has strangled the country’s economy because of it’s failure to stand by the party manifesto which spells...

• 15 Feb 2018
• Sipilisiwe Ncube

Muchima challenges Lungu to call for early elections

Ikeleng’i UPND member of parliament Elijah Muchima has challenged President Edgar Lungu too call for early elections to prove that the ruling party is popular. At a media briefing yesterday, Muchima said his party had put in place tight anti-rigging mechanisms. “I don’t know when we last got CDF. We just got 50 percent of...

• 15 Feb 2018
• Sipilisiwe Ncube

Prolonged UNZA closure sign that govt is broke - UNZALARU

University of Zambia Lecturers and Researchers’ Union president Dr Evans Lampi says government’s the prolonged closure of the institution suggests that public coffers are seriously contaminated with empty shelves. Speaking at when he addressed a press conference in Lusaka, Wednesday, Dr Lampi said governments changing justifications for keeping UNZA closed gave credence to suggestions that...

• 15 Feb 2018
• Mukosha Funga

Lungu makes reshuffles at PS level

President Edgar Lungu has appointed Mulenga Emmanuel Pamu as the new permanent secretary in charge of budget and economic affairs at the Ministry of Finance, taking over from Pamela Kabamba, who moves in the same capacity to the Ministry of Home Affairs. Kabamba will be responsible for the Commission for Refugees, Immigration, Archives and the...

• 15 Feb 2018
• Joseph Mwenya in Kabwe

Lungu donates books, his face for Valentines to Kabwe pupils

Central Province Minister Sydney Mushanga says President Edgar Lungu values education and that has driven him to donate a special Valentines gift to learners in the province. Speaking when he donated over 22,000 Patriotic Front branded books to 8 schools in Bwacha Constituency, Wednesday, Mushanga said the donation demonstrated President Lungu’s commitment to promoting the...

• 15 Feb 2018
• Zondiwe Mbewe

There's no evidence that PF is corrupt - Antonio

There is no evidence that the PF leadership is involved in corruption, says Patriotic Front deputy media director Antonio Mwanza. And Mwanza says the former foreign affairs minister Harry Kalaba and the NDC leader Chishimba kambwili's allegations that the PF is corrupt show that the two are still weeping after loosing their ministerial jobs. Speaking...

• 15 Feb 2018
• Joseph Mwenda

VERBATIM: Court hears IDC scandal in detail

Former Industrial Development Corporation (IDC) Executive Director for operations Paul Siame has told the court that when the Development Bank of South Africa vetted the Corporation before deciding to lend it money, it emerged that two of the board members were linked to criminal activities, with one allegedly arrested for drug related charged in Asia....