The Lusaka Water and Sewerage Company has announced that several residential areas in Lusaka will not be supplied water today due to a rip to one of the main supply lines around Waterworks. LWSC Public Relations Manager Patson Phiri said affected areas included Chilenje, Libala, Kabwata, Kamwala, Matero, Matero East, Industrial and other the surrounding...

The Ministry of Water Development has engaged an Israeli based water purification company to re-test the contamination of ground water in some parts of Lusaka Province . Ministry of Water Development, Sanitation and Environment Protection Permanent Secretary Eddie Chomba told the Zambia National Broadcasting Corporation (ZNBC) that it was the mandate of his ministry to...

ZNFU media liaison officer Calvin Kaleyi says a lot of farmers this year will only plant enough maize for domestic consumption following the year-in year-out delays by government to pay them for what they supply to the Food Reserve Agency. Kaleyi said, in an interview, that maize had become a political crop hence farmers would...

FODEP executive director Chimfwembe Mweenge says police must always conduct necessary investigations before moving in to raid private property and harassing innocent citizens. Commenting on the raid that was effected on the UPND secretariat by police officers on Friday last week on suspicion that the opposition party had hidden offensive weapons at their secretariat, Mweenge...

According to the Metrological Department, we still have until the end of November before the rains saturate the soil, but the Ministry of Health has already recorded hundreds of cholera cases. Some people are surprised; we are not. We are not surprised because we know this is how our government operates. Like we stated in...

A 13-year-old ex prostitute yesterday narrated how she met NAREP president Elias Chipimo who then committed to help transform her life. Speaking during a 5fm radio show called Kambani alongside Chipimo, the juvenile explained that she wrote an essay detailing her ‘extra curricula activities’ for a school assignment which ended up landing her a meeting...

Zambia Council for Social Development (ZCSD) Board Chairperson Mahamba Chiputa says the civil society is nearly extinct because of external pressure from those in government. In a statement today, Chiputa asked those in government not alter the Non-Governmental Organisation Policy which was collectively developed together with the civil society as a key stakeholder. “I’m worried...

The Report of the Auditor General on the Accounts of the Republic for the financial year ended 31st December 2016 has shown a continued increase in the misapplication of funds from K28,153,997 in 2015 to K162,095,699 in 2016. In a statement released today, Auditor General’s office head of public relations Ellen Muleya Chikale stated that...

Beston Chambeshi has been confirmed as Zambia Under-23 coach while Mumamba Numba has taken over the Under-20 coaching job. A FAZ official who was not willing to be named said the changes were ratified last Saturday during a FAZ executive committee meeting held at Football House in Lusaka. The official said Chambeshi would also continue...

Lands Minister Jean Kapata says she maintains her unconditional forgiveness to Chishimba Kambwili because she is not playing games with the Roan PF member of parliament. Responding to Kambwili's accusations that the Mandevu member of parliament organised cadres to attacks him during Michael Sata's memorial, Kapata said she was too mature to engage in such...

Vice-President Inonge Wina says government has unfrozen 39 vacant positions at the office of the Auditor General, thereby allowing the institution to employ more staff and increased its audit coverage. Wina said this in Parliament on Tuesday when she gave a breakdown of the K93,436, 697 budgetary allocation to the Auditor General’s office in the...

European Union Ambassador to Zambia Alessandro Mariani says Zambia’s economic recovery program calls for increased levels of accountability and transparency. Speaking during the launch of the Public Finance Management handbook at Parliament building in Lusaka today, Ambassador Mariani said the recovery program needed credible budget minimising variations. "As honorable Minister of Finance indicated in the...

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Zambia Correctional Services Head of Legal unity Madford Chishimba says courts in Zambia are not utilising alternative sentences for minor offences as required by law, hence the congestion in prisons. And Zambia Law Development Commission Executive Director Hope Chanda says the Commission is in the process of reviewing the Penal Code in order to decriminalise...