HOUSING and Infrastructure Development Minister Vincent Mwale says those who have survived COVID-19 must become advocates of behavioural change. And Mwale has condemned the flouting of health regulations by PF cadres at the Lusaka Magistrates' Court. Mwale was speaking during a News Diggers/Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa (OSISA) sponsored programme on Chipata’s Breeze FM,...

GOVERNMENT should pay all outstanding salary arrears for workers at National Heritage Conversation Commission and National Museums Board who have gone unpaid for nine months, University of Zambia Allied Workers Union (UNZAWU) president George Katapazi has demanded. But Tourism Minister Ronald Chitotela says government has just released a grant to clear salary arrears for the...

THE Policy Monitoring and Research Centre (PMRC) says the 2020 national budget performed more favourably in the first quarter of the year than expected as domestic financing, grants and revenues were above target by less than a percentage. But PMRC data shows that 73.5 per cent of government’s total expenditure in the first quarter of...

SPEAKER of the National Assembly Dr Patrick Matibini has given a go-ahead to Kapiri Mposhi UPND member of parliament Stanley Kakubo to move a motion to censure Bowman Lusambo. According to a letter from the Office of the Clerk of the National Assembly dated July 16, 2020, Kakubo wants Lusambo censured for using unpalatable language...

POLICE on the Copperbelt have arrested UPND chairman for policy research Dr Choolwe Beyani and six others in Chililabombwe for conducting intra party elections without notice. They have been charged with unlawful assembly. In an interview, Copperbelt police commissioner Charity Katanga confirmed the arrest and disclosed that five motor vehicles were also impounded in the...

ALLIANCE for Community Action (ACA) executive director Laura Miti says President Edgar Lungu should understand that the loyalty of senior lawyers is not to the sitting government, but to the Republican Constitution and Zambians who own it. Commenting on President Lungu’s directive to new Law Association of Zambia (LAZ) president Abyudi Shonga to ensure that...

TWO PF councillors; Kelvin Mwape of Kakoswe ward and Morton Sikazwe of Mbereshi ward, both from Mwansabombwe constituency in Luapula Province, have defected to the UPND citing lack of development in the area despite it being a PF stronghold. Speaking when he received the two councillors at the UPND secretariat, Saturday, party deputy secretary general...

PF media director Sunday Chanda says Our Civic Duty Association (OCIDA)'S attacks on President Edgar Lungu proves that it is an opposition political party that serves as a surrogate of the UPND. Last Wednesday, OCIDA said that President Lungu had lamentably failed to deal with various governance issues like corruption in Zambia. But in a...

UPND chairman for elections Gary Nkombo has challenged Home Affairs Minister Stephen Kampyongo to name the people he claims are enticing defense and security personnel to resign, saying the accusation is alarming and amounts to treason. And Nkombo has rubbished allegations that the UPND plans to dethrone Paramount Chief Chitimukulu when they form government saying...

THE Auditor General’s Report has revealed that the Lusaka South Multi-Facility Economic Zone Limited (LS-MFEZ) allocated fuel worth K105,478 to a non-runner vehicle. And the Report disclosed that the company recruited an unqualified lawyer in the position of Company Secretary which resulted in paying K185,600 to a law firm as legal fees for services which...