Archive: 8 February 2019

8 Feb 2019 | Sipilisiwe Ncube

United Voice Radio condemns Mutati’s cadres for attacking Nevers

United Voice Radio board chairperson Bishop Mwape Chomba has condemned the conduct by Felix Mutati’s MMD youths who stormed the radio station to interrupt a live programme which featured Nevers Mumba. On Wednesday, MMD youths […]

8 Feb 2019 | Mukosha Funga Njenga

Lusaka cops rob robbers, share stolen cash

Police in Lusaka have arrested about six fellow officers who allegedly robbed robbers in Lusaka West on Monday, and went away with over K250, 000 which the robbers were trying to share. The accused police […]

8 Feb 2019 | Sipilisiwe Ncube

E-voucher a fraud because it helps criminals thrive, charges Sinkamba

Green Party leader Peter Sinkamba says the current mode of supplying fertilizer to farmers using agro-dealers under the electronic voucher system has proven to be fraudulent because it has provided an opportunity for criminals to […]

8 Feb 2019 | Zondiwe Mbewe

Lusaka man in court for impersonating a medical doctor

A 27 year-old man of Lusaka’s Zani Muone Compound has been dragged to court for pretending to be a medical doctor at Lusaka’s Chipata Level one Hospital. And a medical doctor at the said hospital […]

8 Feb 2019 | Mirriam Chabala

Ministers had nothing, now they’re 50 times richer than me – GBM

UPND vice-president Geofrey Bwalya Mwamba says he gets shocked when he sees how some ministers, who had nothing in the Michael Sata-led government, have now become 50 times richer than him. And Mwamba says it […]

8 Feb 2019 | Stuart Lisulo

Mwanakatwe targets IMF bailout package this year

Finance Minister Margaret Mwanakatwe says she is targeting to secure an International Monetary Fund (IMF) economic bailout package by the end of this year. According to Bloomberg, Mwanakatwe made the remarks on the side-lines of […]

8 Feb 2019 | Stuart Lisulo

S/Africa’s rand gains against kwacha

The kwacha has depreciated against the South African rand to breach the K0.90 per rand for the first time since November, 2015. And financial market analyst Mambo Hamaundu says the kwacha’s depreciation against the rand […]

8 Feb 2019 | Sipilisiwe Ncube

Chitotela may not go down alone – Chipimo

NAREP president Elias Chipimo says whenever a high profile person is implicated in corruption, it is always clear that they do so with the blessings of very senior people. Commenting on the arrest of Housing […]

8 Feb 2019 | Zondiwe Mbewe

Lsk man in court for duping woman by promising to multiply her K25,000

A 30-year-old businessman has been dragged to court for obtaining K25,000 cash from a woman by falsely pretending that he would multiply it when in fact not. In this matter, Raymond Businge is charged with […]

8 Feb 2019 | Sipilisiwe Ncube

UNZA lecturers to be paid today

University of Zambia (UNZA) Vice Chancellor Professor Luke Mumba says lecturers will be paid their January salaries by today. Early this week, UNZA professional unions issued a joint statement complaining about delayed payments at the […]