Kabushi PF Member of Parliament Bowman Lusambo has promised to set up a US$100, 000 revolving fund for Kabushi constituency teachers, saying they need to stop getting “embarrassing” loans from Bayport and FINCA. And Lusambo has directed the Ndola District Education Board Secretary to distribute the PF manifesto to all teachers in his constituency. Lusambo...

GOVERNMENT says it will continue to work in full partnership with young people and other partners, including the Church to promote the ideas of peace, solidarity and respect for Human Rights. Speaking when she officiated at the 55th enrollment and rededication of the 1st Lusaka Boys Company at St Paul’s UCZ Church yesterday, Vice-President Inonge...

PF national mobilisation vice chairperson Geoffrey Bwalya Mwamba has insisted that NDC leader Chishimba Kambwili should return to the ruling party, saying President Edgar Lungu still wants him back. And Mwamba says he was just politicking when he used to accuse Patriotic Front leaders of being thieves. Meanwhile, Mwamba has charged that UPND leader Hakainde...

The Zambia Tax Platform ZTP says Finance Minister Dr Bwalya Ng'andu's update on the country’s expected growth rates shows that Zambia will not achieve its 2030 vision. And the ZTP says Zambia's economic outlook presented by Dr Ng’andu offers no hope for ordinary citizens as it is silent on critical issues, which include outstanding monies...

The Lusaka Magistrates’ Court has sentenced a 21-year-old student to one year, six months imprisonment with hard labour for breaking into a house and stealing a laptop worth K6, 000. In this matter, Pola Chuma, of Lusaka’s Chilenje Township was charged with breaking into a building with intent to commit a felony. Particulars of the...

NDC leader Chishimba Kambwili has applied for leave to commence Judicial Review in the Lusaka High Court against Lusaka magistrate Felix Kaoma’s decision to prohibit his lawyer Keith Mweemba from appearing before his court. In a matter before magistrate Kaoma, Kambwili is facing a charge of defamation of the President following a complaint filed in...

UPND and NDC have applied for leave to amend the originating summons in a matter where they have sued the Electoral Commission of Zambia (ECZ) and PF secretary general Davies Mwila, over the Chilubi by-election. Mulambo Haimbe, the lawyer representing UPND secretary general Steven Katuka, has submitted to the Lusaka High Court that the proposed...

NDC leader Chishimba Kambwili has retracted his allegations against Konkola Copper Mines (KCM) Provisional Liquidator Milingo Lungu of transferring over K100 million from the company’s bank account to his law firm’s account. Speaking with Diamond TV recently, Kambwili said it had been brought to his attention that the purported funds were indeed paid to Lungu’s...