A RECORDED conversation between Lusaka Province PF secretary Kennedy Kamba and Chanda Kaoma has gone viral on social media in which the former is asking the latter to compile a list of party youths who can be given tenders to supply COVID-19 equipment to the Ministry of Health. This caused an uproar as netizens wondered...

MINISTRY of Information permanent secretary Amos Malupenga has told the High Court that Prime Television does not have the ability to exercise its right to impart and receive information as it is not licensed. Malupenga has further submitted that Prime Television’s petition where its challenging government’s decision to cease all cooperation with it, is incompetent...

MMD president Nevers Mumba says the resumption of business in Nakonde District risks increasing the number of COVID-19 cases in that area. In an interview, Mumba said it was not the right time to resume business in Nakonde. “I think on this point, the President and I, or the PF and MMD have gone to...

CHAPTER One Foundation executive director Linda Kasonde has condemned the shooting of a Nakonde resident believed to be involved in a riot against the lockdown in that area. Last Wednesday, police in Muchinga Province arrested nine people believed to have been involved in riots including a person, who had been shot in both legs and...

GOVERNMENT has condemned the gruesome murder of three Chinese nationals at warehouse in Makeni. And Police spokesperson Esther Katongo says police have retrieved the third and last body of the slain Chinese nationals. Speaking to journalists at State House, Tuesday, Foreign Affairs Minister Joseph Malanji described the killing of the Chinese nationals as anarchy which...

HEALTH Minister Dr Chitalu Chilufya has tested positive to COVID-19, becoming the second Cabinet Minister to contract the virus after Information and Broadcasting Services Minister Dora Siliya. Meanwhile, Zambia has recorded 137 cases of COVID-19 out of the 4,364 tests conducted in the last five days, bringing the country’s cumulative total to 1,057 while recoveries...

Local Government Minister Dr Charles Banda has ordered Lusaka Mayor Miles Sampa and other local authority officials around the country to stick to their lanes and desist from closing some Chinese businesses without following procedure. Speaking to journalists at State House, Tuesday, Dr Banda said government regretted the actions taken by some local authorities officials...

THE announcement by Chief Government Spokesperson Dora Siliya that she has tested positive for COVID-19 is sobering and calls for reflection and introspection. What Dora Siliya has done is very good and inspiring. This is what the people of Zambia expect of our leaders. This action by the Minister of Information and Broadcasting goes straight...