THE Zambia National Farmers Union (ZNFU) has called on farmers to be patient and wait for the marketing season for them to take advantage of the ready regional market that is in need of food. And the ZNFU has projected that this year’s harvest will be better than the last four seasons but would have...

THE Media Liaison Committee (MLC) has engaged the Independent Broadcasting Authority (IBA) on the reinstatement of Prime Television’s broadcasting license which was recently canceled in public interest. In an interview, MLC chairperson Enoch Ngoma disclosed that MLC held an engagement meeting with the IBA on Thursday but could not discuss much since Prime TV had...

Transport and Communications Minister Mutotwe Kafwaya says buses should not allow anyone without a mask to get into a bus because social distancing is difficult in public transport. And Kafwaya says he has encouraged intercity bus companies to provide free masks to their clients because unlike their intracity colleagues, they can afford it. In an...

ECONOMIST Trevor Simumba says government should not outsource advisers to help them negotiate debt restricting when Zambia has enough eminent citizens capable of handling the task. Speaking when he featured on Capital FM’s Counting the Cost Radio Programme, Thursday, Simumba advised government to utilize the former Bank of Zambia governors and former finance and commerce...

CUTS Centre Coordinator Chenai Mukumba says a family of five needs K2,000 for reusable masks per month, which is too high for most families. In a statement, Sunday, Mukumba appealed to government to find a solution so that low-income consumers were cushioned and protected. "During President Edgar Chagwa Lungu’s second speech to the nation on...

PRESIDENT Edgar Lungu says Zambians will perish if they don't change their behavior in extraordinary ways during the COVID-19 pandemic. In a Facebook post, Sunday, the Head of State said he was concerned about the rising person-to-person transmissions which had been recorded. "I am very concerned by the new local cases of person-to-person COVID-19 transmissions...

Six Football Association of Zambia (FAZ) elected provincial chairpersons have petitioned the association’s secretary general Adrian Kashala and rejected calls by Sports Minister Emmanuel Mulenga to hold an Extraordinary General Meeting to resolves the disputes currently obtaining. The six provincial chairpersons who were elected in March for the 2020-2024 tenure held a meeting with Kashala...

TWENTY-FOUR people of Solwezi's Kyawama Township in North Western Province were yesterday arrested for riotous behavior while 15 others sustained injuries and were admitted in hospital. The riot, which lasted for more than four hours started when the council police demolished some venders’ makeshift stores in line with public health provisions during the COVID-19 pandemic....

HEALTH Minister Dr Chitalu Chilufya says the 19-year-old COVID-19 female patient has died, bringing the local pandemic-mortality rate to 3. And Dr Chilufya says Zambia recorded four news cases of COVID-19 in the last 24 hours, among them, two medical personnel from Chilenje Hospital. Speaking during his daily COVID-19 updates, Sunday, Dr Chilufya said the...