Zambia National Commercial Bank has been sued by its former employee in the Lusaka High Court for non-payment of a bonus of over K16 million, which the latter earned after recovering some monies due to the bank. In a statement of claim filed in the Lusaka High Court principal registry, April 24, Charles Kamungu stated...

President Edgar Lungu says no one will be allowed to make new submissions at the ongoing national dialogue forum, explaining that participants are expected to only provide clarifications or inputs from the earlier submissions. And President Lungu says government is expecting that the recommendations generated during the National Dialogue Forum will culminate into widely acceptable...

A Lusaka Law firm has dragged former Zambia Red Cross Society secretary general Charles Mushitu to court for failing to pay over K300,000 accrued as legal representing services during the period he was facing criminal charges. Milner and Paul Legal Practitioners, suing as a firm, is claiming an order for possession and sale of Mushitu’s...

Governance activist Brebner Changala says it will be difficult for Geoffrey Bwalya Mwamba (GBM) to rise from the ashes like a phoenix and walk with dignity, charging that the former UPND vice-president has ended his political career by re-joining PF. On Tuesday, Mwamba resigned from the opposition UPND, citing irreparable differences with party president Hakainde...

British High Commissioner Fergus Cochrane-Dyet says his country has not yet unfrozen aid to Zambia and is still working closely with government to conclude a forensic audit into abuse of funds. And High Commissioner Cochrane-Dyet says with a projected population of 41 million by 2050, Zambians need to start debating how poverty will be fought....

The annual rate of inflation has increased to 7.7 per cent for April, 2019, mainly triggered by bread and cereal price increases, Central Statistical Office (CSO) data shows. Announcing Zambia’s annual rate of inflation for this month, CSO acting director of census and statistics Goodson Sinyenga said that bread and cereal price increases had been...

Police spokesperson Esther Katongo says the man who died in police custody in Namwala District, Southern Province, was suspected to be mentally unstable. And Katongo says one person has been arrested in connection with the murder of the deceased, identified as Sebastian Shimooko. In an interview, Katongo explained that Shimooko was put in custody after...

In this audio, Lusaka lawyer Kelvin Bwalya Fube says fielding President Edgar Lungu as PF candidate for the 2021 elections will open the party up to attacks because the Head of State has made some mistakes. And KBF says he is a unifying factor who wants to bring back DP leader Harry Kalaba, NDC leader...

The Lephalale Regional Court in Limpopo Province, South Africa has fined a 39-year-old Zambian truck driver R60,000, in default fours years imprisonment for smuggling skin bleaching creams into that country. And Zambia's High Commissioner to South Africa Emmanuel Mwamba has expressed concern over the increasing number of cases Zambians are facing regarding banned skin creams,...

Zesco management says it would like to implement an electricity tariff increment of 91 per cent in one single phase, adding that they are not being greedy by proposing, but need to cover operational costs and survive. According to data availed by Zesco the utility hopes to generate over K16 billion revenue within the first...