The Ministry of Health has clarified that the actual cost of the Bangweulu Regional Hospital is K154 million and not $154 million as alleged by National Democratic Congress (NDC) leader Chishimba Kambwili. And the Ministry has insisted that the tender process for the hospital was done in line with the Zambia Public Procurement Agency (ZPPA)...

KCM liquidator Milingo Lungu has clarified that the notice of petition advertised in the press will not affect employees at the mine. And Lungu has explained that the period of provisional liquidation is not adequate to dismantle historical debt despite receiving enough funds from production to run the mine. In an interview, the liquidator explained...

The Auditor General’s Report has narrated how one Director of Finance at the Mansa Municipal Council was paid K1,875 as a “social holiday” allowance, which was never recovered. In the Report on the Accounts of Local Authorities for the financial years ended December 31, 2015, 2016 and 2017, the Auditor General also revealed that the...

The Consumer Unity Trust Society (CUTS) has called on government to revise the maize subsidy to millers following the continued escalating prices of mealie meal on the market. And Makumba has charged that some millers are taking advantage of Zambia’s high-cost market environment and making a profit even when their cost of production may not...

Zambia is not immune to trade-based money laundering so there is need for all stakeholders to be alert in tackling the vice, says Attorney General Likando Kalaluka. Speaking during the launch of the Attorney General Africa Alliance on Trade-Based Anti-Money Laundering training workshop in Lusaka, Tuesday, Kaluluka noted that trade-based money laundering was on the...

The Zambia Revenue Authority (ZRA) has started the operation to impound all heavy duty vehicles imported dubiously into the country, collecting K3.1 million in unpaid taxes. In a statement, ZRA corporate communications manager Topsy Sikalinda said the Authority had published about 1,000 trucks of which only 430 had responded, hence the need to start the...

National Democratic Congress (NDC) president Chishimba Kambwili says the PF has a rare disease of making pronouncements and failing to implement them. Last week, government, through the Ministry of Finance, asked all project implementing ministries to stop bombarding the Treasury with requests for funding of activities until the country’s debt stock was brought back to...

The Ndola Magistrates' Court has acquitted a 22-year-old man who allegedly forced an eight-year-old girl to suck his manhood which he claimed produced "Milkit". In this case, Samuel Mpengula of Kabushi was charged with unnatural offences. Particulars alleged that on May 19, Mpengula had unlawful carnal knowledge of a child against the order of nature....

Legana Investment Limited has also dragged Luyando Kopakopa and her boyfriend to the Lusaka High Court, claiming damages for accusing it of producing sausages contaminated with condoms and human flesh. Legana Investments is seeking exemplary and special damages from Kopakopa, a clinical medicine student and Eric Nhandu for defamation of character, as well as, interest...

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) in Chipata has arrested former Chama North Constituency Development Fund (CDF) chairperson Ancrate Gondwe for corrupt practices involving K350,000. And the Commission in Choma has also arrested a Provincial Education Officer and Provincial Accountant at the Provincial Education Office for corrupt practices. In a statement, ACC public relations manager Timothy Moono...