University of Zambia (UNZA) professional unions say perpetual delay to pay lecturers’ salaries at the institution is a deliberate ploy by management and the Ministry of Higher Education to cause mental anguish and torture to its members. The University of Zambia Lecturers and Researchers’ Union (UNZALARU), University of Zambia Professional Staff Union (UNZAPROSU), and University...

Government has officially abolished meal allowances for University of Zambia and Copperbelt University students. Higher Education Minister Professor Nkandu Luo announced this at a media briefing, Wednesday, saying government had instead added more public universities to the loan scheme. In December 2018, Prof Luo told a CBU representative who had called her to enquire on...

Mines Minister Richard Musukwa has hinted that government may make temporary rebates to some mining companies over the disputed 2019 fiscal regime if they show justifiable cause. But his Finance counterpart Margaret Mwanakatwe has contradicted Musukwa by insisting that 2019 mining fiscal regime is now law and that mining companies have no choice but to...

The Lusaka Magistrates' Court has sentenced a 22-year-old man of N'gombe township to 12 months' imprisonment with hard labour for stealing a Techno cellular phone valued at K1,800. In this matter, Kennedy Mwanza, unemployed, was facing a charge of theft and had pleaded guilty. Particulars of the offence were that on January 16, 2019, Mwanza...

President Edgar Lungu is scheduled to travel to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia to attend the 32nd Ordinary Session of the Heads of State and Government SADC Summit. Minister of Foreign Affairs Joseph Malanji announced that President Lungu would arrive in Addis Ababa on Saturday February 9, 2019. This is contained in a statement issued by Zambia's...

Felix Mutati's MMD faction die hard youths yesterday stormed United Voice Christian Radio in an attempt to interrupt a programme on which Nevers Mumba was being featured. The youths, who were led by their coordinator Gerald Chiluba and Prince Ndoyi, said they wanted Mumba to stop featuring on radio programmes because he was "a masquerader"....

Transparency International Zambia has asked President Edgar Lungu to immediately relieve Housing and Infrastructure Development Minister Ronald Chitotela of his duties so that he can deal with the corruption allegations preferred against him. And Lusaka lawyer Zaza McQueen has observed that the two cases of concealing property suspected to be proceeds of crime which Chitotela...

Chief Government Spokesperson Dora Siliya says government, through Cabinet Office, is investigating how former Vice President Dr Guy Scott accessed Micheal Sata's death certificate which he has since published in his book. And Siliya says the arrest of Minister of Infrastructure Development Ronald Chitotela is proof that President Edgar Lungu’s commitment towards the fight against...

A Lusaka man has sued the Zambia Police Service in the Lusaka High Court for unlawfully detaining him since December last year, without being charged. Dauti Sinkutwa of Lusaka’s Garden Park along New Mumbwa Road has also sued the Attorney General, saying his continued detention was unconstitutional in that his rights to freedom and liberty...

The Lusaka Magistrates' Court has ordered a 14-year-old boy of Chawama Compound to undergo counselling and rehabilitation for stealing a mountain bike worth K1,600. The juvenile, who pleaded guilty to the offence, had told the Court that he stole the bike so that he could buy school shoes for himself after passing to grade 10....