Local Government Minister Charles Banda says it is not government’s responsibility to pay salaries for council workers advising that all local authorities in the country have a duty to raise their own funds to sustain workers. Speaking during a press briefing held at Chief Government Spokesperson Dora Siliya’s office, Wednesday, Banda explained that government was...

Former Attorney General Musa Mwenye says the country cannot be praying for financial resources when at the same time, it is recklessly spending money and driving itself into poverty. And Mwenye says people cannot raise their hands in prayer for prosperity and use the same hands to carry corruptly acquired wealth into their bank accounts....

Home Affairs Minister Stephen Kampyongo has reiterated that the Ministry will soon start auditing the ownership of guns and fish out anyone who illegally owns them. Meanwhile, Kampyongo says he has directed law enforcement agencies to pull up their socks because some people are daring them by causing mayhem. Speaking when he debated the 2020...

Lusaka Province Police Commissioner Nelson Phiri says the command wants to ensure that there is peace in the city, that is why there is heavy police presence in the Central Business District. But leader of the opposition in Parliament Jack Mwiimbu has charged that the officers have been deployed to protect PF cadres who are...

Police in Chipata have arrested two Egyptian nationals aged 42 and 27 while one is on the run for allegedly raping and sodomising a 28-year-old woman of Ndola who was visiting relatives in the area. Eastern Province Commissioner Luckson Sakala confirmed this development in an interview, narrating that the incident happened on October 13 in...

The Law Association of Zambia (LAZ) has insisted that the matter in which three politicians and two others are challenging its decision to sue President Edgar Lungu and the National Assembly for attempting to alter the Constitution through Bill 10 of 2019 should be thrown out. LAZ has submitted the applicant’s argument that the Constitutional...

The Center for Trade Policy and Development (CTPD) says the reason why the country’s agricultural sector has not recorded meaningful development over the years is limited budgetary allocations and investment by government. And CTPD says it is poor planning by the government to start exporting maize to neighbouring countries when Zambian citizens are still grappling...

Deputy speaker of the National Assembly Catherine Namugala on Tuesday curtailed debates on homosexuality saying that the topic had already been debated on the floor of the House. Meanwhile, Fisheries and Livestock Minister Prof Nkandu Luo says it is wrong to always accuse the Patriotic Front (PF) of causing climate change when the real effects...

Former Special Assistant to the President for Policy Implementation and Monitoring Jack Kalala says the National Day of Prayer, Repentance, Fasting and Reconciliation is a political stunt intended to hoodwink Zambians. In a statement, Tuesday, Kalala argued that the Prayer Day, slated for this Friday, did not amount to anything tangible, and that the chances...

A police officer has testified in the Lusaka High Court that former Family Health Trust executive director Benny Zulu, who is accused of murdering a 19-year-old woman, led cops to the crime scene for reconstruction. In this matter, Zulu is charged with murder and particulars of the offence are that on July 9 this year,...