President Edgar Lungu has instructed Home Affairs Minister Stephen Kampyongo to engage law enforcement agencies under his ministry to probe further into the ‘mysterious’ 48 housing units whose owners the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has failed to find. On Sunday this week, ACC acting director general Rosemary Nkonde Khuzwayo told ZNBC that the Commission had closed...

Kabwe Central PF member of parliament Tutwa Ngulube says the Electoral Commission of Zambia (ECZ) has been the major contributor for voter apathy because it has not done much to sensitize the electorate. And Ngulube says the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) should not embarrass the country by making statements which suggest they are incompetent. Meanwhile, Ngulube...

Lands Minister Jean Kapata says owning a plot in Forest Reserve number 27 is not illegal because that land was excised and various Zambians, including ministers and members of parliament, were given plots. And Kapata says contrary to assertions by former Minister of Transport and Communications William Harrington that it is criminal to own land...

Road Development Agency (RDA) construction and rehabilitation director George Manyele has testified in the Lusaka Magistrates’ Court that RDA nominated Mwamona Engineering and Technical Services as a sub-contractor to conduct works on the Mansa-Luwingu road. This is the matter in which Chishimba Kambwili, his son Mwamba, Mwamona Engineering, Lukwesa Musonda Brano and Mulenga Makasa Kapilima...

Chief Chamuka of the Lenje speaking people of Central province has advised men to "man-up" and report to relevant authorities when they have been battered by their spouses. And Chief Chamuka has called on traditional leaders in the country to take a leading role in the promotion of sexual health. Speaking at Kabwe’s Pizo Lodge...

Ministry of Finance Dr Bwalya Ngan’du has presented a supplementary budget to Parliament amounting to K9.8 billion, with about K6.4 billion to be spent on both external and domestic debt obligations. Speaking during the presentation in Parliament, Wednesday, Dr Ngan’du said the proposed supplementary budget would be mainly financed from reallocations and variations of funds...

The Report of the Auditor General on the accounts of Local Authorities for the financial years ended 31st December 2015, 2016 and 2017 has revealed that local authorities failed to remit statutory and other obligations amounting to K424 Million. According to a statement issued by head of public relations at the Auditor General's office Ellen...

Transparency International Zambia (TIZ) says President Edgar Lungu’s intervention in the mysterious 48 houses case amounts to interference in the work of law enforcement agencies. And TIZ says it believes the ACC already knows who the owners of the houses are, given the proper paper trail which characterizes land and property transactions. Yesterday, President Lungu...

UPND president Hakainde Hichilema and Economic Equity Party (EEP) leader Chilufya Tayali have agreed to discontinue the case before the Lusaka High Court in which the former had sued the latter for allegedly defaming his character. The two opposition leaders have entered a consent order before the Lusaka High Court to discontinue a defamation matter....

One patriotic economist called our newsroom on Tuesday, giving us a lecture about the need for media houses to support Zambian initiatives such as the one organised by Dr Lubinda Haabazoka and his Economics Association of Zambia in Livingstone. The complaint from this economist was that the media had only focused on hyping the event...

Chief Government Spokesperson Dora Siliya has ridiculed those accusing President Edgar Lungu of being a tribalist saying the Head of State’s joke against UPND leader Hakainde Hichilema should not be misconstrued for tribalism. Speaking at a joint press briefing with Higher Education Minister Dr Brian Mushimba in Lusaka, Wednesday, Siliya, President Lungu was not a...