OVER 10 doctors at Lusaka’s Cancer Disease Hospital are in quarantine after coming into contact with their fellow doctor who tested positive for Coronavirus. But Ministry of Health spokesperson Dr Abel Kabalo has expressed doubt at the revelation, saying that he would need to go to UTH to confirm the development. According to one of...

MINES and Mineral Resources Minister Richard Musukwa says government is putting in place measures to provide relief for the mining industry but has warned mining companies not to take advantage of the current circumstances amidst the Coronavirus pandemic. Earlier this week, the Centre for Trade Policy and Development (CTPD) called on government to consider increasing...

Lusaka Province Minister Bowman Lusambo has insisted that he and his crack squad have stopped arresting citizens but they will continue to whip those found drinking in bars because they are behaving like two year olds who can’t reason for themselves. And Lusambo invited his social media critics to collect free talk time from his...

SOLICITOR General Abraham Mwansa has submitted to the Constitutional Court that there hasn’t been any failure, neglect or refusal by the Finance Minister to obtain prior approval from Parliament before approving and signing any debt agreements, as the law requiring the same hasn’t been enacted. The State has therefore denied claims that in the current...

Konkola Copper Mine (KCM) provisional liquidator Milingo Lungu says the mine has put in place a contingency and business continuity plan which includes putting the mine on care and maintenance, if need arises, in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. And Lungu says while KCM's health facilities have enough doctors, there aren't enough ventilators which...

Four Linda compound rioters have been found with a case to answer and have since been put on their defense by the Lusaka Magistrates' court. This is a matter in which the accused are charged with one count of rioting after proclamation contrary to section 79 of the penal code chapter 87 of the laws...

COPPERBELT Energy Corporation (CEC) Plc says it remains totally committed to continue providing seamless power supply services to all its customers on the Copperbelt, while the pending the Bulk Supply Agreement (BSA) with Zesco Limited remains outstanding. And CEC says government’s demands over the disputed BSA, if accepted, would be injurious to its ability to...

THE COVID-19 pandemic will negatively impact revenue collections this year because of the decline in copper prices that has already affected Mineral Royalty Tax and projections for Corporate Income Tax from the mining sector, the Zambia Revenue Authority (ZRA) has disclosed. In a statement, Wednesday, ZRA Corporate Communications Manager Topsy Sikalinda stated that the threat...

DEPUTY Senior Chief Tafuna of the Lungu people of Northern Province has dragged Senior Chief Tafuna to the Lusaka High Court seeking a declaration that he is the only person on the throne until the Lungu Royal Establishment appoints a successor in accordance with their tradition. Cosmas Tafuna Sikazwe, who has sued Mathews Makungu Siame...

A YOUNGER sister of a missing Zambia Army officer has asked the Lusaka High Court to declare him dead to enable the management of his estate as nothing has been heard of him for over seven years. Ruth Mwale of house no. MQ53 ZAF in Lusaka has cited Hillary Mwale as the deceased. She stated...

A CHAIRMAN of the Old Brentwood Drive Neighbourhood Association has sued Victoria Hospital Limited and three others in the Lusaka High Court for donating the health centre to the Ministry of Health for use as a Coronavirus screening and isolation facility. Alick Sakala, who has cited Sumati Naik, Nimesh Naik and Janesh Naik as well...

THE Zambian High Commission in South Africa has advised Zambians in that country wishing to travel back home to wait until the COVID-19-induced lockdown is lifted. The 21-day lockdown in South Africa is expected to be reviewed on April 16, 2020. Zambia's High Commissioner to South Africa Major General Jackson Miti has further urged Zambians...

PRESIDENT Edgar Lungu’s former Special Assistant for Political Affairs Kaizer Zulu has asked the Lusaka High Court to dismiss a matter where two soldiers want him committed to prison for contempt of court for commenting on a case where they are accused of conspiring to murder him. In this matter, Steven Phiri and Steven Chiiba...

HEALTH Minister Dr Chitalu Chilufya says President Edgar Lungu has ordered the recruitment of 400 doctors and 3,000 paramedics to enhance the fight against COVID-19. And Dr Chilufya says President Lungu has also granted incentives to health workers who are at the frontline of the fight against the pandemic. Meanwhile, Dr Chilufya says Zambia has...

Why would a government be so aversive to the idea of closing its borders to human movement in the face of such a vicious global disease outbreak? What interest is this government protecting? We ask because it doesn’t make sense whatsoever that a poor country like ours can claim to have the capacity to screen...

PRESIDENT Edgar Lungu says Zambia is already on lockdown based on government’s recently outlined science-led disease outbreak preparedness and contingency plan in which measures to prevent the spread of Covid-19 were highlighted. In a statement shared on his Facebook page, Wednesday, President Lungu noted concerns by people calling on him to declare a lockdown as...