Former Secretary to the Cabinet Dr Sketchley Sacika says the prayers which citizens said during the National Day of Prayer and Reconciliation will not strengthen the Zambian economy. In an interview, Dr Sacika said Zambia has man-made problems which could only be solved by putting in the work. “The National Day of Prayers has come...

UPND spokesperson Charles Kakoma says western countries have lost confidence in President Edgar Lungu’s PF administration due to Zambia's continued economic decline and are now looking towards the UPND for renewed hope. Kakoma was commenting on UPND president Hakainde Hichilema’s trip to the United States earlier this month, where he claimed that investors pledged to...

The Zambia Institute of Advanced Legal Education (ZIALE) is undertaking reforms relating to Student Rules and its curriculum to address the high entry-level barriers law graduates sitting for Bar exams are currently facing, says Law Association of Zambia (LAZ) president Eddie Mwitwa. And Mwitwa says the exponential growth in the number of law graduates has...

Kanchibiya PF member of parliament Dr Martin Malama has insisted that UPND president Hakainde Hichilema should explain why his party is associated with the African Liberal Network (ALN), an organisation that supports gay rights. Speaking on Radio Christian Voice’s programme The ChatBack, Monday, Dr Malama said it was a fact that the UPND was a...

Home Affairs Minister Stephen Kampyongo says the suspected owner of the 51 mysterious houses in Chalala tried all means to conceal his identity. And Kampyongo says the matter in which three people, among them a couple of civil servants and a Copperbelt based lawyer who are suspected to be the owners of the houses, has...

FAZ general secretary Adrian Kashala says the association will identify culprits who pelted missiles on Saturday when Zambia hosted eSwatini in the final CHAN qualifying match at Heroes Stadium. Kashala has said preliminary investigations on the incident revealed that the perpetrators had a pre-determined agenda regardless of the outcome of the match. "As the Football...

The Football Association has awarded scholarships to the U-17 boys who emerged victorious at the just-ended COSAFA Cup in Malawi to aid their learning process. FAZ president Andrew Kamanga says the association will henceforth offer scholarahips to juniour teams and that offer has since been extended to the girls' team that came third at the...

Two suspended coaches of Lusaka Dynamos Football Club Limited have dragged the football club to the Lusaka High Court, seeking damages for what they have termed constructive dismissal. Daniel Kabwe and Christopher Tembo, who were employed as head and assistant coaches respectively, are further seeking one month salary in lieu of notice of termination of...

UPND president Hakainde Hichilema has mocked the fire trucks that First Lady Esther Lungu went to receive in the United States of America as a donation. And Patriots for Economic Progress (PeP) leader Sean Tembo has described the fire trucks as dilapidated. In January, First Lady Esther Lungu led a 25-member delegation on a two-week...

The Constitutional Court has ruled that President Edgar Lungu and the National Assembly were improperly joined to the proceedings in which the Law Association of Zambia (LAZ) is challenging Constitutional (Amendment) Bill No.10 of 2019. The ConCourt has therefore ordered that they be removed from the proceedings and that the main matter be heard on...

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) in Choma has arrested former Southern Province Permanent Secretary and a Chief Human Resource Management Officer for corrupt practices. According to a statement issued by ACC public relations manager Timothy Moono, Sibanze Simuchoba, 64 and Daggoh Chitendwe, 58, were arrested and charged with one count of Abuse of Authority of Office...

Two Cabinet Ministers have gone to the public, differing over a very serious matter of public interest. Minister of Religious Affairs and National Guidance Reverend Godfridah Sumaili says the law is above everyone else and those ministers who illegally stayed in office prior to the 2016 general elections must pay back, a position which Justice...