• 24 Mar 2021
• Natasha Sakala

Kambwili should come back to PF, we need him - GBM

PF mobilisation committee vice chairperson Geoffrey Bwalya Mwamba says Kambwili has done well to apologise to the President and urged him to go back to the PF because he is needed there. During a special interview with Smart Eagles, Tuesday, Mwamba, commonly known as GBM said he predicted Kambwili’s fallout with Hakainde Hichilema and alleged...

• 24 Mar 2021
• Ulande Nkomesha

PF can't reduce cost of living, they are experienced in stealing from the public - Mulusa

MOVEMENT for Democratic Change (MDC) secretary general Lucky Mulusa says the current PF leadership cannot reduce the cost of living because they are experienced in stealing from the public. Commenting on Commerce, Trade and Industry Minister Christopher Yaluma's remarks that Zambians should be patient and allow President Lungu to continue working on reducing the high...

• 24 Mar 2021
• Zondiwe Mbewe

Kabwe farmer drags 3 to court for accusing him of adultery

A COMMERCIAL farmer of Kabwe district has dragged three people to the Lusaka High Court for allegedly accusing him of having sex with one of the trio's wife. Best Kelvin Lwiindi laments that he has undergone humiliation and trauma as people in the neighborhood or village have made him a laughing stock, making him to...

• 24 Mar 2021
• Zondiwe Mbewe

I’ve not been given an ultimatum to re-join PF – Kambwili

EMBATTLED National Democratic Party (NDC) founder Chishimba Kambwili says he has never in his life heard of one being given an ultimatum for wanting to join a political party. Kambwili was speaking to journalists after appearing at the Lusaka Magistrates’ Court yesterday. Asked if he had been given an ultimatum on rejoining the PF by...

• 24 Mar 2021
• Natasha Sakala

We'll not abandon Scott because he's not a thief like those in PF - HH

UPND leader Hakainde Hichilema says his party will not abandon former vice-president Dr Guy Scott despite his health challenges, adding that people like him need to be cherished because they never stole. And Hichilema says he will not comment on Kambwili and his party issues adding that the greater part of the National Democratic Congress...

• 24 Mar 2021
• Natasha Sakala

UNICEF, Sweden join hands to help Zambia set up new oxygen plant

MINISTRY of Health permanent secretary-technical services Dr Kennedy Malama has announced that UNICEF with support from Sweden and other donors, has agreed to support the procurement of the new Oxygen Plant for the Copperbelt province which will be located at Kitwe Teaching Hospital. And Dr Malama has announced that the country has recorded 244 new...

• 24 Mar 2021
• Ulande Nkomesha

Lungu assures diplomats of free, fair, peaceful elections

PRESIDENT Edgar Lungu has assured the Diplomatic Corps that the country will hold a free, fair and transparent general election. And President Lungu has appealed for continued support from the Diplomatic community towards the implementation of the Economic Recovery Programme and the Eighth National Development Plan. Speaking during the annual greeting of the Diplomatic corps,...

• 24 Mar 2021
• Ulande Nkomesha

When I decide to withdraw from Kabwata, I will announce it myself - Lubinda

Justice Minister Given Lubinda says those who are claiming that he has withdrawn from the parliamentary race for Kabwata Constituency must produce a letter where he has announced that. The Kabwata Constituency leadership yesterday released a least of aspirants who had applied for adoption, and said by close of application date, Lubinda had not shown...

• 24 Mar 2021
• Mukosha Funga

Alleged arms dealer, Lungu's ally Alexander Zingman arrested in DRC

BELARUSIAN businessman and alleged arms dealer Aleksandr Zingman, who appeared in controversial pictures with President Edgar Lungu, Lusaka Businessman Valden Findlay and Russian businessman Alexander Mikheev, has been arrested in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Zingman, through his UK-based lawyers threatened to sue News Diggers in England if the newspaper did not disclose the source...

• 24 Mar 2021
• Natasha Sakala

Transfer of traffic police officers a short-term measure in tackling corruption – TIZ

THE Zambia Police Service must implement punitive measures to effectively deal with corruption because police transfers are only a short-term measure, says Transparency International Zambia (TIZ) chapter president Sampa Kalungu. Commenting on the abrupt transfer of all division police officers in charge of traffic across the country to Force Headquarters, Kalungu observed that the move...