A 49-year-old businessman of Lusaka’s New Chawama area has appeared in the Lusaka Magistrates’ Court for allegedly personating a police officer and obtaining over K8,000 from different people on the pretence that he will offer them employment in the public service. In this matter, Luckson Mwambazi is facing 14 counts of personating public officers contrary...

Local Government Minister Vincent Mwale says government has partnered with the National Pensions Scheme Authority (NAPSA) and the German government to construct new markets to curb street vending across the country. And Mwale says local authorities will continue penalizing individuals involved in street vending because making the culprits pay will serve as a deterrent to...

Chief Government Spokesperson Dora Siliya says there is nothing sinister about the suspension of Prime Television’s broadcasting license, insisting that everybody deserves to be corrected whenever they error. And Siliya says government is hoping that public transport operators will also adjust downwards transport fares following the reduction of fuel prices announced by the Energy Regulation...

UPND leader Hakainde Hichilema says The Independent Broadcasting Authority (IBA) has played out a PF agenda by suspending Prime Television's broadcasting licence. In a statement, Wednesday, Hichilema had demanded for the immediate lift of the suspension saying failure to do so would prove that President Edgar Lungu is a dictator. “The suspension of Prime Television...

A 42-year-old general worker has pleaded guilty in the Lusaka Magistrates’ Court to stealing a mattress worth K600 for his personal use. This is the matter in which Chrispine Chembo of Chiyaba village in Nampundwe, is facing one count of burglary and theft contrary to Section 301(a) and 272 of the Penal Code Chapter 87...

British American Tobacco (BAT) Zambia Plc incurred increased losses of over K16 million after tax during its financial year period ending December 31, 2018, mainly triggered by foreign exchange losses, company data reveals. And BAT Zambia have complained that the Customs and Excise Act, 2018, posed the company challenges. In a statement outlining the abridged...

Zambia will propose a debt swap with China from US dollars to Chinese yuan when government officials visit that country at the end of this month, Finance Minister Margaret Mwanakatwe has revealed. Speaking during a press briefing in Lusaka, Wednesday, Mwanakatwe explained that the rationale made sense in view of the need to mitigate the...

NDC leader Chishimba Kambwili says civil servants are yet to experience longer periods without pay because it is the beginning of the end. And Kambwili says ministers and top government officials should stop paying themselves and prioritise civil servants so that they can also feel the pinch. Meanwhile, Kambwili has wondered what kind of government...

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