UPND deputy secretary general Patrick Mucheleka says President Edgar Lungu’s failure to address youths when he went to officiate at the Youth Day celebrations in Lusaka, Tuesday, showed that youths were doomed under his leadership. And Mucheleka says Lusaka Province Minister Bowman Lusambo is daydreaming to think that PF will easily win the 2021 elections...

Democratic Party President Harry Kalaba says the Independent Broadcasting Authority only suspended Prime TV's license because the station gives coverage to opposition political parties, which poses a threat to PF. Speaking when he featured on Pan African Radio ‘The Peoples’ Debate’ program, Wednesday, Kalaba said people would not be forced to watch ZNBC despite Prime...

Lusaka Province Minister Bowman Lusambo says the ruling party has no political competitor for 2021, boasting that other contenders will only participate because Zambia is a democratic state. In an interview, Tuesday, Lusambo said Zambians had already decided to re-elect President Edgar Lungu because he had done a lot since he became Head of State....

UPND chairperson for mobilisation Sylvia Masebo says the official position of the opposition Alliance is that her party will only field a candidate in Bahati while the NDC is supposed to field a candidate in Roan constituency ahead of the April 11th parliamentary by-election. But Masebo, who is former tourism, and local government minister, says...

Konkola Copper Mines has shut down operations at number 1 shaft, which was being mined by Master Mine Services, saying the company had failed to source for funds to pay workers. KCM has since written to the redundant workers who have been placed on forced leave. Master Mining Company is a Chinese mining contractor that...

UK Minister of State for Africa, Foreign Office and DFID Harriett Baldwin says freedom of expression and media in Zambia is under threat as evidenced by the closure of Prime TV. In her Tweet, Baldwin expressed concern over the closure of Prime TV especially that it was happening in a country with a promising democratic...

Copperbelt Minister Japhen Mwakalombe has ordered security wings to impound trucks that are transporting maize and mealie meal without export permits. In an interview, Mwakalombe said the lifting of ban to export mealie meal was not open to everyone but to millers who had permits. “What we mean when we say that we are allowing...

A businessman identified as Archie Mctribuoy has dragged Lusaka lawyer Martha Mushipe to court for failing to pay over K70,000 in rental arrears. Mctribouy is seeking an order for leave to issue vacant possession and warrant of distress of house number 100/11, in Ibex Hill, Lusaka. He is further seeking payment of the outstanding rentals...

Trade and investment expert Trevor Simumba has charged that the current crop of technocrats are self-seeking cowards who are only looking out for their wellbeing. And Simumba says come 2021, himself and other progressive Zambians will "get rid of them once and for all. Reflecting on how the country has faired politically and economically over...

Police in Kabwe have launched a man hunt for a 20-year-old woman who allegedly dumped a baby in a septic tank after giving birth. Central Province Police Commissioner Chola Katanga said police received a report from Barnabas Mulenga, a plumber for Lukanga Water and Sewerage Company that whilst unblocking the sewer line in Kasanda mine...