Consultant gynecologist and obstetrician at the University Teaching Hospital Dr Mulindi Mwanahamuntu says the hospital is in short supply of blood, a situation which is leading to increased deaths. And Dr Mwanahamuntu says it is shocking that people in rural areas are more willing to donate blood even though the highest consumers are from the...

Government’s continued delay to pay agro dealers will mean farmers will not plant a sufficient crop this farming season, says former Agriculture and Livestock Deputy Minister Luxon Kazabu. Last month, Agriculture Minister Michael Katambo disclosed in Parliament that government still owed agro dealers K374 million. And last week, some agro dealers told Hot FM news...

Alliance for Democracy and Development (ADD) president Charles Milupi has accused government of lying to the Zambian people on the importation of power from South Africa’s utility Eskom. Last week during a joint press briefing, Eskom’s chief operating officer Jan Oberholzer told the media that the contract signed with Zesco was “non-firm”, meaning that the...

Leslie Mbula says he is wondering why government has announced a compulsory take-over of Horizon School within five years, when it signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) that it would operate for 90 years. And Lands Minister Jean Kapata confirmed, Monday, that the land on which Horizon School was sitting had been compulsorily acquired, insisting...

A 39-year-old Chongwe man accused of defiling his step daughter and twice impregnanting her, has told the Lusaka Magistrates’ Court that he has never had sex with the victim and that the allegations against him are false. Meanwhile, the court has set December 30 this year, as date for judgment. In this matter, Tobias Chilimbo,...

President Edgar Lungu has said no one should influence the judges when discharging their judicial functions. And President Lungu says it is a fundamental human right for any accused person to be subjected to a court process that guarantees a speedy and fair outcome. Officiating at the Judicial Conference in Livingstone, Tuesday, President Lungu said...

Vice-President Inonge Wina says the cultivation and use of cannabis in Zambia is still illegal and laws need to be changed before it can be made legal. Meanwhile, Vice-President Wina says a strong storm and wind blew off some billboards which fell on the City Market shelter, causing damage to buses which were stationed near...

Mkaika MMD member of parliament Peter Phiri says his constituency has not received its allocation of the Constituency Development Funds (CDF), a situation he fears could jeopardize his chances of being re-elected in 2021. But Phiri, however, encouraged his constituents to remain calm amidst their ongoing economic challenges because there is light at the end...

Lusaka Mayor Miles Sampa’s ex-wife has argued that his request for the Lusaka High Court to reduce child maintenance from K7,000 per month to K1,500 is ill-founded because no circumstances have changed since the ruling was granted early this year. Mwika Mwenechanya has therefore asked the court not to vary the ruling on maintenance. In...

Vice-President Inonge has directed line ministries to work closely with the Zambia National Farmers' Union (ZNFU), supermarket chain stores and other importers to develop a phased import substitution programme by the end of January, 2020. And the Vice-President says government will take all necessary measures to ensure price stability of wheat and wheat products in...

Four Lusaka men, who have dragged President Edgar Lungu’s Special Assistant for Political Affairs Kaizer Zulu and others to the Lusaka High Court for allegedly beating and kidnapping them, have complied with the Court’s order for them to provide residential addresses. The four have also provided their e-mails and postal addresses through an amended writ...

The Constitutional Court has ruled that it will proceed to hear a matter where a Lundazi Central losing candidate has petitioned it to declare the parliamentary seat vacant, on allegations that the current member of parliament doesn't have a full Grade 12 certificate. The Court has further ruled that the petition is rightfully before it...

Chaisa residents yesterday staged a protest over the continued long hours of load shedding during the day, arguing that they had no use for power which only comes at night. The residents stoned a Zesco customer service centre and blocked Great North Road before police intervened. In an interview, Zesco spokesperson Henry Kapata narrated that...

This country is now officially broke! It has been bankrupted. The thieves in government have stolen all there was to be stolen and there is no money left to steal. With the Treasury now empty, they have turned to natural resources. What is there to steal now is land, wildlife, minerals and forest products, and...