PF sympathiser Chanoda Ngwira yesterday failed to turn up in the Constitutional Court for a matter where former DPP Muntembo Nchinto wants to commence contempt proceedings against him, due to a sudden illness. But Mutembo wondered how Chanoda could claim to be sick when the previous day around 23:00 hours, he was active on Facebook...

Secretary to the Cabinet Dr Roland Msiska has justified President Edgar Lungu’s hiked salary and other allowances, saying the Head of State’s conditions of service are “totally different”. He has, however, appealed to civil servants and Zambians at large to contribute towards effecting government’s austerity measures. Meanwhile, Dr Msiska says government will save around US...

Government should shelve plans to relaunch the forthcoming Zambia Airways in 2019 because the chances of success are slim, the Centre for Trade Policy and Development (CTPD) has insisted. According to research compiled by the CTPD’s lead researcher, Bright Chizonde, the much-anticipated national carrier, which is due to be introduced in the first quarter of...

Sinda District Agricultural Committee chairperson Masauso Zulu says farmers in Sinda are regretting using the E-voucher system because it has failed them. But District Agriculture Coordinating Officer Henry Mkulumoya has claimed that his district is “doing fine” on the government’s E-voucher system of distributing farming inputs. In an interview, Zulu wondered why some shops were...

President Edgar Lungu must intervene to state government’s position on the decision taken by the National Biosafety Authority (NBA) to allow Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) into Zambia, says the ZNFU. And the African Consumer Union (ACU) and the Zambia Consumers’ Association (ZACA) have also rejected the NBA’s approval that three distributors import genetically modified foodstuffs...

A desperate practising primary teacher at Rusangu University has been sentenced to one year imprisonment with hard labour by the Kitwe Magistrate Court for stealing Energizer batteries from Shoprite checkers at Mukuba Mall. Alex Mwansa told Senior Resident Magistrate Mwansa Chibalo that he resorted to stealing three packs of batteries after he failed to raise...

Kalumbila Mine in North-Western Province, First Quantum Minerals’ Trident Foundation has handed over newly-constructed infrastructure worth K440,000 to Jiundu Secondary School. Speaking during the handover ceremony of the newly-constructed kitchen, dining hall, VIP toilets, fenced and freshly painted girls’ dormitory, acting North-Western Provincial Education Officer Boniface Kanema said the donation had added value and given...

Lufwanyama UPND member of parliament Leonard Fungulwe says farmers in his constituency, who deposited their down payment of K400 into their e-voucher system, have still not been supplied with their inputs. In an interview, Fungulwe revealed that even the transporters, who were contracted to deliver the inputs on behalf of government to the farmers, are...

Kasempa UPND member of parliament Brenda Tambatamba says the slow pace at which the E- voucher is being implemented in her constituency will lead to severe hunger next year because farmers have no money. And Mpungu Ward induna, Mumba Lukulu Wakufita has complained that government is not helping the farmers, adding that they have suffered...

President Edgar Lungu says there were some people within the Patriotic Front with evil intentions who wanted to supplant him. But President Lungu says he is available to contest the 2021 elections. President Lungu said this in welcoming the Constitutional Court's ruling which declared that he was currently serving his first term of office because...