The Civil Society in Zambia has taken government to task following the theft of donor aid, which has led to the freezing of all bilateral support to Zambia. NGOCC executive director Engwase Mwale says the Economics Association of Zambia (EAZ) still has a lot of work to do in offering candid economic policy solutions to...

PF lawyer Kelvin Bwalya Fube has asked President Edgar Lungu to decide whom he wants to serve between the people of Zambia and his friends who surround him. In an open letter to the ruling party leadership, KBF who is also an election strategist says the recent increase of fuel prices is an indication that...

I'm not the right person to ask about the national team squad selection because I'm only a FAZ president and not the coach, says Andrew Kamanga. His statement comes after receiving numerous quarries on the FAZ Facebook page as well as call-in sports programmes on named, inquiring why certain players were left out of the...

NAPSA netball team coach Pauline Nsombo will on the weekend be looking for ways of recording a fourth consecutive win in its fourth fixture, round 2, of the Netball Association of Zambia (NAZ) league after defeating Mazabuka Queens, Prisons Leopards and Lusaka City Council in the past two weeks. The pensioners’ weekend fixture pins them...

The University of Zambia Lecturers and Researchers’ Union has warned of a looming industrial unrest at the highest learning institution citing government's failure to release funds to help meet costs. In a statement, Thursday, UNZALARU General Secretary Dr Kelvin Mambwe revealed that government had stopped releasing its K39 million grant to the institution since September,...

Financial crimes are expected to reduce in 2018 because of increased public awareness, says President Edgar Lungu’s Spokesperson Amos Chanda. And Chanda says President Lungu is eager to have in place a functional Auditor General, but there are constitutional impediments preventing him from nominating a substantive office holder. Meanwhile, newly-appointed Deputy Inspector General of Police...

Seven Lusaka Magistrates' Court officials and two businessmen, who were accused of trafficking in 80.11 grams of cocaine, have been slapped with another charge of trafficking in 1 kilogram of the same drug without lawful authority. And magistrate Kawama Mwamfuli has dismissed the defence's application to have the accused persons undergo medical examination after allegedly...

A fourth year UNZA student has died of suffocation after police burnt one of the hostels using a teargas canister. According to one o the male students who rushed her to the hospital, the female student, Vesper Shimuzhila, was pronounced dead upon arrival at Levy Mwanawasa General Hospital. "After she suffocated, we put her in...

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Zambia Police officers have burnt a hostel block which houses female UNZA students. The police officers were pursuing irate students towards the new residence which hosts mostly female students. The officers continued firing teargas and in the process, one of the blocks at October hostels caught fire. The female students, who hid in the block,...