Pilato launches "Open CBU" online campaign By Thomas Mulenga Satirical singer Chama Fumba alias Pilato, has launched an online campaign dubbed "#Open CBU", hoping to compel government to reopen the Copperbelt University. Fumba says Minister of Higher Education Professor Nkandu Luo should come back to her right frame of reasoning and re-open the institution. In...

Patriotic Front (PF) Secretary General Davies Mwila says government, through the successive implementation of the Food Security Programme (FSP), has made steady progress in bridging the gap between the rich and the poor. And Mwila says through the Ministry of Trade and Industry, has further developed an Industrial Policy to support and accelerate Industrialisation in...

Opposition alliance chairperson Charles Milupi says the on-going National Dialogue Forum was assembled to legitimise the raping of the Republican Constitution in order for the PF to continue in power. And Milupi says people will still rise and vote against the PF in 2021 even if they manipulate the Constitution in their favour. In an...

Ministry of Information and Broadcasting Services Permanent Secretary Chanda Kasolo has insisted that the soon to be enforced statutory media regulation will be mandatory and will leave none out. And Kasolo says self-media regulation must be supported by statutory legislation to ensure journalists’ interests are protected, whilst guaranteeing that the growth of the media in...

UPND President Hakainde Hichilema says the withdrawal of some participants from the National Dialogue Forum is an indication that the process is not credible. In a statement, Hichilema insisted that the NDF was a PF engineered process that should not be entrusted with making the constitution. “The withdrawal by some participants from the ongoing PF...

Governance activist Lewis Mwape says the National Dialogue Forum (NDF) cannot produce a credible Republican Constitution as it is aimed at protecting the interests of PF officials who are currently enjoying power. And Mwape urged Zambians to demand for transparency from leaders over the NDF because keeping quiet will allow leaders to manipulate the Constitution...

About 600 Mopani Copper Mines direct workers will lose their jobs by June 2019 as the company has failed to maintain Mindolo North shaft and Central shaft in Kitwe. The three Unions (MUZ, NUMAW and UMUZ) said  Mopani Copper Mines had informed them that the company had invested in new state of the art technology in...

The National Democratic Congress (NDC) has asked President Edgar Lungu to ultimately reject Zesco’s proposal to upwardly adjust electricity tariffs by 91 per cent, saying the cost of living is already high. On March 9, 2019, Zesco applied to the Energy Regulation Board (ERB) to revise retail electricity tariffs upwards and among the proposals was...

The matter in which Patriotic Front (PF) Kabwe District Chairperson Richard Bango, two PF councilors and five cadres are charged with criminal trespass and malicious damage to property is scheduled to take off in the magistrates' court today. The eight were arrested on Tuesday in connection to an incident which occurred on April 30 when...

We have written on the collapse of the economy of several occasions, but those who hold economic degrees in the PF government say we have no right to give an analysis on things that we “don’t understand”. So today we went to dig out the former Minister of Commerce, Trade and Industry to use this...