Lusaka Mayor Miles Sampa says businesses close too early in Lusaka, which explains why street vending at night is being encouraged. And Sampa says the Lusaka City Council police and Zambia Police will be in charge of patrols during the night. Last week, Lusaka Province Patriotic Front chairman Paul Moonga said the party provincial executive...

PF Deputy Secretary General Mumbi Phiri says former Attorney General Musa Mwenye SC and Premier Consult proprietor Professor Oliver Saasa have both failed the country in their areas of expertise but continue to be glorified by the media. And former National Restoration Party spokesperson Bwalya Nondo has charged that the opposition in the country has...

Monze Central UPND member of parliament Jack Mwiimbu says the Zambian parliamentary committee system is very weak because it doesn’t make any decisions which bind the executive wing of government. On Tuesday, Government Chief Whip Brian Mundubile invited organizations and citizens to make submissions to the Constitution Amendment Bill No. 10 of 2018 which is...

The Constitutional Court has referred back to the High Court, a matter in which four Lozi traditional loyalists want the Litunga of Western Province, Edwin Lubosi Imwiko, to resign from the throne for alleged gross incompetence and abuse of authority. A panel of five Constitutional Court judges ruled that they had no jurisdiction to deal...

A 41-year-old Zambian national identified as Peter Nyirenda has died in Cape Town, South Africa, after sustaining neck injuries resulting from a knife stabbing by his spouse. According to a statement issued by First Secretary Press and Public Relations at the Zambia High Commission in South Africa Naomi Nyawali, Thursday, the deceased sustained injuries following...

Peoples Alliance for Change (PAC) president Andyford Banda says President Edgar Lungu's remarks that development will only follow those who cry the most are a clear indication that the PF government is not committed to developing areas that did not vote for them. Speaking when he landed at Solwezi Airport in North Western Province where...

The Non-governmental Gender Organisations’ Coordinating Council (NGOCC) has congratulated the Zambia Police Service for graduating 401 women out of the 693 recruit officers at Kamfinsa School of Public Order Maintenance. In a statement, Wednesday, NGOCC Chairperson Mary Mulenga, however, bemoaned the non-inclusion of women in decision making positions in the Zambia Police Service. "Inspector General...

Hivos Zambia in partnership with Civil Society for Poverty Reduction (CSPR), Indaba Agriculture Policy Research Institute (IAPRI), Consumer Unit Trust Society (CUTS) and Civil Society Scaling Up Nutrition (CSO-SUN) have launched a "Beyond maize" study report which explores various diversification options in the Zambian agricultural sector. Speaking during the launch, Minister of Agriculture Michael Katambo...

Legana Investment Limited director Edith Nawakwi has asked the Lusaka High Court to set aside the action which a clinical medicine student commenced against her firm in the said court, for irregularities. Nawakwi has argued that the said student, Luyando Kopakopa, issued the process against Legana Meat Products, an entity that’s separate and distinct from...

Zesco has increased the ongoing countrywide load-shedding due to its failure to generate sufficient power for all its consumers. In a statement, Wednesday, Zesco announced that the "emergency" situation had been necessitated by a fault at Maamba Collieries Power Station. "Zesco Limited wishes to inform its esteemed customers and the general public that there will...