Transparency International Zambia (TIZ) president Rueben Lifuka says there is poor enforcement of the law on declaration of assets, liabilities and incomes by members of parliament and Cabinet Minsters. Last Thursday, outgoing United States Ambassador to Zambia Daniel Foote challenged government leaders in the PF administration to make personal financial disclosures so that the Anti-Corruption...

President Edgar Lungu has warned companies implementing out-grower schemes to avoid exploiting the ignorance of small-scale farmers in the country. And President Lungu says he will not condone inertia from government departments that delay the implementation of worthwhile projects by the private sector. Speaking when he launched the Cassava Out-grower scheme by Sunbird Bio Energy...

The Civil Society Scaling-Up Nutrition (CSO-SUN) Alliance has hailed Zambia National Service (ZNS) Commandant Lieutenant General Nathan Mulenga’s directive to open up more land for cultivation to increase food production. But the CSO-SUN has, however, urged ZNS to focus on crop diversification in order to meet the nutrition needs of the people. Two weeks ago...

PF national mobilization vice chairperson Geoffrey Bwalya Mwamba has insisted that NDC leader Chishimba Kambwili will rejoin the ruling party, it is just a matter of time. On Monday, Kambwili vehemently denied insinuations that he planned to go back to PF, rubbishing Mwamba's remarks as propaganda. He vowed that there was no room for reconciliation...

The Patriotic Front government’s legalisation of marijuana for commercial and medicinal purposes is a welcome, if overdue, development. It is a victory of reason over vocal opposition likely from those who neither research nor smoke marijuana. That said, the legalisation needs a more broad-based consultative process to produce a comprehensive marijuana policy satisfactory to all...

Agriculture Minister Michael Katambo says the government has finished distributing both fertilizer and seed in Luapula Province for the 2019/2020 farming season. And Luapula Province Minister Nickson Chilangwa says not every farmer is entitled to the government subsidised fertilizer because others are not on the beneficiary list. The due were speaking when they addressed a...

Absa Group Limited, Barclays Bank Zambia's parent company, has announced the appointment of Aaron Daniel Mminele as its new Group Chief Executive effective January 15, 2020, taking over from René van Wyk. In a statement released, Monday, the Group announced Mminele’s appointment as new chief executive officer, having taken over from van Wyk, who had...

A 21-year-old maid of Lusaka, who disappeared with a six-month-old baby which was later retrieved from her in Kitwe, has told the Lusaka Magistrates’ Court that she stole the child because she does not have her own. Reachel Banda, who pleaded guilty to the charge of child stealing, further told the court that she had...

President Edgar Lungu has gone on a four day annual retreat in Eastern Province. According to a statement issued by Special Assistant to the President for Press and Public Relations Isaac Chipampe, the retreat is effective Tuesday, January 7, 2020. "The President spent last weekend and part of Monday in Kawambwa, Luapula Province where he...