• 22 Feb 2019
• Mukosha Funga

Dialogue has failed because PF is using divide and rule tactics - Telesphore

Archbishop Telesphore Mpundu says dialogue has failed because the Patriotic Front is using the divide and rule tactics. And Archbishop Mpundu says former UPND vice-president Dr Canisius Banda should find better ways of lobbying for a job from the ruling party instead of spreading hallucinations. Featured on Pan African Radio on January 9, this year,...

• 22 Feb 2019
• Mukosha Funga

NDC suspends Musenge for 21 days

The National Democratic Congress has suspended its secretary general Mwenya Musenge for 21 days saying his announcement that the party had fired its consultant Chishimba Kambwili was done against the constitution of the NDC. At a media briefing after a central committee meeting this afternoon, NDC vice-president Josephs Akafumba said the party deputy secretary general...

• 22 Feb 2019
• Mukosha Funga

ACC nabs former L/Stone council officials for illegal land allocation

The Anti-Corruption Commission in Livingstone has arrested 14 former Livingstone City Council Councilors for Abuse of Authority of Office. According to a statement issued by ACC corporate affairs officer Christopher Chibanku, Friday, the former councilors have been charged with one count of Abuse of Authority of Office. The Commission earlier arrested Livingstone Central Member of...

• 22 Feb 2019
• Abraham Kalito

Govt must arrest debt growth to avoid economic instability – Kanyama

Economist Chibamba Kanyama says government must arrest the rapid public debt growth or it will continue putting more pressure on the country’s dwindling foreign reserves and trigger economic instability. Commenting on Zambia’s gross international reserves, which have fallen below US$1.6 billion for the first time in nearly 10 years, Kanyama warned that there was need...

• 22 Feb 2019
• Stuart Lisulo

Reduced money in circulation worries BoZ

High interest rates on loan facilities offered by commercial banks has severely limited access to credit by the private sector as growth contracted by 0.9 per cent, Bank of Zambia (BoZ) data reveals. According to the latest the BoZ’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) statement, commercial banks’ average nominal lending rates, which edged up to 23.6...

• 22 Feb 2019
• Mukosha Funga

Opposition alliance leaders have malnourished paediatric brains - Mumbi

PF deputy Secretary General Mumbi Phiri says UPND president Hakainde Hichilema and his fellow opposition alliance leaders are behaving like malnourished paediatric children whose brains cannot function. Phiri was responding to the claim by the opposition alliance that President Edgar Lungu and his State House aids were running a militia in the country which was...

• 22 Feb 2019
• Thomas Mulenga

Sesheke cops were fired for participating in partisan politics - Kampyongo

Minister of Home Affairs Steven Kampyongo says the violence which characterised the Sesheke Parliamentary by-election was caused by UPND supporters and failure by the Police to act professionally. And Kampyongo says government disciplined the four Sesheke police officers for being involved in partisan politics during the by-election. Meanwhile, Kampyongo has advised members of parliament to...

• 22 Feb 2019
• Mirriam Chabala

PF protest was unconstitutional - Speaker

Speaker of the National Assembly Dr Patrick Matibini says the protest by PF cadres at Parliament last Thursday amounts to intimidation and they are liable for arrest and prosecution. In a ruling on several points of order raised by opposition members of parliament over the protest, Wednesday, Speaker Matibini said the protest was a breach...

• 22 Feb 2019
• Zondiwe Mbewe

NGOCC joins calls for Chitotela's resignation

NGOCC says Housing and Infrastructure Development Minister Ronald Chitotela must resign and allow the Anti Corruption Commission to carry out investigations without any influence. In a statement, Thursday, NGOCC chairperson Mary Mulenga stated that the organisation was concerned with the graphic matrix of Chitotela's alleged theft that was published in News Diggers, showcasing how government...

• 22 Feb 2019
• Zondiwe Mbewe

Economist denies illegally accessing UNZA data using Parley IP address

A 33-year-old economist has pleaded not guilty to two counts of unauthorized access of the University of Zambia (UNZA) data using an IP address domiciled at Parliament. In this matter, Andrew Mwewa, of Chilenje South, is facing two counts of unauthorized access or interfering with data contrary to Section 99 (1) of the Electronic Communications...