Ministry of Energy Permanent Secretary Trevor Kaunda says a team of Zesco staff travelled to South Africa to finalize the power importation deal with Eskom but failed to give an indication of when consumers would have some relief. Last Friday, President Lungu announced that a US $14 million payment would be paid to Eskom as...

Savings groups and "Chilimbas" are the most inclusive mode of banking in Zambia, a new Financial Sector Deepening Zambia (FSDZ) Report has revealed. The study titled: “Savings groups: the gateway to financial inclusion in Zambia”, recommended that efforts to make formal financial services more user-friendly to those who have less education should be promoted. There...

A Mpongwe man has told the Ndola High Court that the two men he is alleged to have murdered by giving them a mixture of beer and a sex booster were his best friends. According to the accused, the sex booster was supplied by his brother-in-law who also uses them. This is in a matter...

Speaker of the National Assembly Dr Patrick Matibini yesterday suspended Mazabuka Central UPND member of parliament Gary Nkombo from parliament for 10 days on grounds that he exhibited gross misconduct against Deputy Speaker Catherine Namugala. This follows a complaint letter from government Chief Whip Brian Mundubile who is also Mporokoso PF member of parliament, that...

The Centre for Trade Policy and Development (CTPD) has described the National Health Insurance Scheme as an indirect tax on an already heavily-inundated tax base, who will be subsidizing poorer citizens. According to the National Health Insurance Regulations, all employers are required to register their employees as members of the Scheme and to remit one...

The Lusaka High Court has ordered a trial within trial to test the voluntariness of a warn and caution statement administered to a former Family Health Trust executive director accused of murdering a 19-year-old woman whose body was discovered dumped in Lusaka's Gwerere area. Particulars of the offence allege that on July 9 this year,...

Zesco has explained that load shedding hours have been extended to over 15 hours per day in some parts of the country due to the utility company’s failure to generate enough power at its three main power stations. Zesco public relations manager Hazel Zulu revealed in a statement that the company was currently experiencing a...

“Countries world over survive on debt. It’s only in Zambia where we have made it look like it’s a criminal offence to accrue debt. If you were given an option, for instance, where would you rather be? To have a very clean balance sheet with no debt and no school, no hospital, and no road?...

Senior ZNBC reporter Mark Ziligone yesterday narrated to the Lusaka Magistrates’ Court how, after seeing a video of Chishimba Kambwili allegedly uttering racial remarks against an Indian national, carried out an investigation before writing a story. Ziligone was testifying in a matter in which Kambwili is charged with one count of expressing or showing hatred,...

Three people are nursing serious injuries in Mazabuka general hospital after they were attacked by a furious leopard on Monday afternoon in Makoye village of Chief Mwanachingwala’s chiefdom in Mazabuka district. Police Spokesperson Esther Katongo named the victims in a statement, Tuesday, as Oliver Moonga, Clever Kandesha and Copson Chisuta aged 19, 27 and 38...

Luapula Province Minister Nickson Chilangwa's wife Mwamba on Monday appeared at the Lusaka Magistrates’ Court Complex in connection with charges of forgery and obtaining money by false pretenses. Mwamba was arrested last month after a complaint was filed by Andy Kapapa with the Victim Support Unit (VSU) of the Zambia Police Service. In his complaint,...