The Food Reserve Agency (FRA) says it won’t manage to purchase the targeted 500,000 metric tonnes of maize this crop marketing season, but insists that the country will be food secure because it already has 300,000 tonnes of the commodity in stock. And the FRA has so far closed down 60 satellite depots, which were...

Patriotic Front (PF) cadre Munir Zulu has charged that the ruling party would have continued growing had Defence Minister Davies Chama remained as Secretary General instead of the current one who is always emotionally charged. In a statement shared on his Facebook page yesterday, Zulu narrated that Mwila was denied entry into Matero Constituency where...

The Lusaka Magistrates’ Court has ordered a 43-year-old headman of Shibuyunji District to appear in court on October 17 for sentencing in a matter where he’s charged with one count of assaulting a 57-year-old woman or he risks being arrested. Wellingtone Habeenzu is alleged to have beaten the woman with a stick, injuring her left...

Some PF councillors in Kasama District of Northern Province have complained that they have no capacity to sponsor the ongoing intra-party elections as the party has not funded them. But provincial party chairman Lazarus Bwalya says Kasama councillors are just playing to the gallery, arguing that funds for elections have been released. In an interview...

A Lusaka man of Jack Extension has sued his landlord, a retired police officer, in the Lusaka High Court claiming damages for malicious accusations and defamation of character. Godfrey Mulenga said his landlord, David Masangu Mushoke, has continued subjecting his family to annoyance with intentions of forcing them to vacate the premises without proper cause...

Ministry of Justice permanent secretary in charge of administration Thandiwe Daka has testified in the Lusaka Magistrates' Court that the threshold for the procurement of goods and services by a director at Zambia Law Development Commission (ZLDC) is K50,000. In this matter, ZLDC director Hope Chanda is facing two counts of corrupt acquisition of public...

Financial Intelligence Centre (FIC) director Mary Tshuma's husband Kudakwashe Tshuma, a pastor of Beam of Hope International Ministries, has asked the Lusaka High Court to dismiss his wife's divorce petition with costs, arguing that their marriage has not broken down irretrievably. The pastor has further denied his wife's allegations that he has affairs with a...

Acting General Education Minister Vincent Mwale says the ongoing clean up of financial irregularities that led to the suspension of Permanent Secretary Henry Tukombe at the ministry has also seen 80 other staff being suspended, while donors have still withheld funding to the sector. And Mwale warned that if there will be any need for...

The right to life is fundamental; under no circumstances must it be violated. The reality of human rights protection is one that continues to elude the Patriotic Front under President Edgar Lungu. The nation remains in shock at the death of a defenceless young female student at the hands of police brutality. Everyone was heartbroken...

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