On 21st June 2017, His Excellency President Edgar Lungu unveiled a Patriotic Front’s vision for the next five years: the 7th National Development Plan (7NDP). But is this an improved formula? Are NDPs solving development challenges or serving political productivity? In this feature, I offer a preliminary assessment of the 7NDP and what this means...

Hundreds of Copperbelt University workers and lecturers Wednesday morning connived to lock up Vice-Chancellor Professor Naison Ngoma’s office demanding his resignation saying he had failed to run the institution. CBU lecturers and staff have accused Prof Ngoma of dictatorial tendencies in his style of leadership which they said have affected operations of the institution. A...

“Hand-washing is a life saving intervention; low cost but high impact” – Hon Dr Chitalu Chilufya, Minister of Health Unilever Zambia will support Government efforts to swiftly end the current cholera epidemic by donating over ZMW 175,400 of Product. This Includes 29,400 units (or 200 cases) of Lifebuoy soap and of hand cleanser and 4,000...

President Edgar Lungu has nominated PF deputy secretary general Mumbi Phiri as a member of parliament. In a statement issued by Special Assistant to the President for Press and Public Relations Amos Chanda, State House also announced that it would only issue stamped PDF statements as one of the measures targeted at containing fake news....

The Chief Justice has slapped an additional charge on suspended Livingstone Magistrate Benjamin Mwelwa for allegedly soliciting help from a political party. And Patriots for Economic Progress president Sean Tembo has accused Chief Justice Irene Mambilima of using her office to settle personal scores against magistrate Mwelwa. On September 11, 2017, Tembo wrote to Chief...

The United States Government has provided chlorine drops to sanitize more than 120 million liters of water in Lusaka and Luapula provinces as part of its life-saving support interventions toward the fight against cholera. And US Embassy Public Affairs Officer Janet Deutsch says the Millennium Challenge Corporation has also committed $3 million to partner with...

Patriotic Front Secretary General Davies Mwila has instructed the party leadership in Central Province to take action against Kabwe member of parliament Tutwa Ngulube whom he says is the only obstacle that the ruling party has remained with. And Mwila has asked former foreign affairs minister Harry Kalaba to give up his seat as member...

We are concerned that former finance minister Alexander Chikwanda wrote over 3,000 words trying to advise our leaders, both inside and outside government on how to deal with the prevailing political situation, but the public seems to be dwelling on “who swapped Michael Sata’s last speech to Parliament?” This is where we lose it as...

The Drug Enforcement Commission in Lusaka has arrested a Congolese national for trafficking in cocaine. According to a statement issued by DEC public relations officer Theresa Katongo, Wednesday, Bapabana Kayembe, 29, also known as Evaristo Chisha, a businessman of Plot No. 64/8 Kuomboka Compound was arrested for trafficking in 15 rocks and two sachets of...

President Edgar Lungu has gone against the Public Pensions Act by interfering in the decision of the Public Service Pension Fund (PSPF) Board to keep Dr Richard Mwiinga as Chief Executive Officer, and has since terminated his contract. On December 1, 2017, the PSPF board met to review the performance of Dr Mwiinga, and sources...

Road Transport and Safety Agency chief executive officer Zindaba Soko says RTSA is finalising bidding processes for land on which it intends to construct fitness examination centres of vehicles in all 10 provinces of the country. And Soko says the agency is struggling with a critical shortage of human resource, as the current staff component...

PF does not belong to President Edgar Lungu’s mother for him to be appointing former members of the Movement for Multi-Party Democracy at his will, says Roan member of parliament Chishimba Kambwili. And Kambwili says the only reason Nkana PF member of parliament Alexander Chiteme has been appointed Minister of National Planning is because he...