Governance activist Brebner Changala says the Industrial Development Corporation needs to be overhauled to curtail the loss-making deals that the holding company has approved over the years. And Changala says President Edgar Lungu will be arrested when he leaves office because of the raw deals that the IDC has made under his chairmanship. In an...

THE Lusaka Magistrates' Court has explained the charge of murder to four pupils who are accused of killing a Kabulonga Secondary School pupil in December last year. The four pupils who are believed to be pupils of Twin Palm Secondary School and aged between 16 and 19, are charged with one count of murder contrary...

KONKOLA Copper Mines (KCM) chief executive officer Christopher Sheppard says the Lusaka High Court’s decision to throw out the injunction it had earlier granted Vedanta against the splitting of the mine will allow for the restructuring and reorganisation without any constraints. And Mineworkers’ Union of Zambia (MUZ) president Andrew Chewe has welcomed the ruling and...

MATERO PF member of parliament Lloyd Kaziya says he is currently under police protection because some PF cadres plan to attack him for unknown reasons. In a short interview, Kaziya said he did not know their motive. "They are planning to attack me, I am receiving police protection right now. They have been planning to...

NKEYEMA UPND member of parliament Kapelwa Mbangweta says the PF’s massive and frequent cash donations to unsuspecting citizens around the country is tantamount to money laundering because there is no accountability. Commenting on Lusaka Province Minister Bowman Lusambo’s K300,000 cash donation to Kabushi residents made on behalf of President Edgar Lungu for the construction of...

ENERGY Minister Matthew Nkhuwa says government has had to subsidise fuel prices to cushion the economic impact the COVID-19 pandemic on consumers’ livelihoods. And Nkhuwa has announced that Indeni Petroleum Refinery is expected to resume operations within four to six weeks. Speaking when he rendered a ministerial statement in Parliament, Tuesday, Nkhuwa said government had...

LANDS Minister Jean Kapata says only President Edgar Lungu can make PF win the August 12 general elections. And Kapata says despite being fought by Mandevu PF chairman Joseph Tamba, she will re-contest her seat, boasting that she has worked hard for her people. In an interview, Kapata said no one in the ruling party...

ECONOMIST Noel Nkhoma says government’s second default on the Eurobond interest debt repayment will worsen the country’s credit risk profile, which means accessing foreign capital will be much harder. According to the Ministry of Finance, government defaulted on a US $56.1 million coupon payment that fell due, Saturday, January 30, 2021, on the Eurobond set...

PUBLIC health specialist Dr Canisius Banda says the recalling of defective products supplied by Honeybee Pharmacy Limited involving so many products all at once is unprecedented in the health and pharmaceutical history of Zambia. But Dr Banda has commended President Edgar Lungu for quickly intervening and acting in defence of citizens on the controversial drug...