THREE women NGOs have petitioned the Constitutional Court of Zambia seeking the Court’s intervention in redressing discrimination of marginalized women and youths from participating in the democratic governance of the country. In a joint statement which was read by NGOCC Legal Advisor Daisy Ng'ambi, NGOCC, Chapter One Foundation, and the Young Women in Action charged...

PATRIOTIC Front deputy secretary general Mumbi Phiri has wondered why the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has not acted on former finance minister Edith Nawakwi’s allegations on UPND leader Hakainde Hichilema’s role in the sale of State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs). And Nawakwi says Zambia will completely be transformed in terms of development if the ruling party is given...

UPND president Hakainde Hichilema says it is heartbreaking to learn that HoneyBee Pharmacy has supplied toxic drugs after being illegally awarded a US$17 million supply tender by the Ministry of Health. And ADD president Charles Milupi says it is senseless for Honeybee Zambia to say the drugs which it supplied to government were procured from...

LUSAKA Province Minister Bowman Lusambo says it is only fair that the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) investigates every Zambian instead of targeting people like him who are donating nshima and relish to the under-privileged. And Lusambo says there's no money for him to steal in his office, stressing that he started driving a Benz before joining...

COURT of Appeal judge Mubanga Kondolo has fined Kingsland City Investment Limited K175,000 for disobeying the injunction which restrained continued works at Kingsland City. Judge Kondolo ordered that the said amount should be paid into court within the next four weeks, failure to which the Chief Executive Officer of Kingsland City Investment Limited, Huang Bing...

BONANZA Resort general manager Adrian Penny says the resort is targeting to raise standards in Zambia’s tourism and hospitality industry by offering world-class facilities, which will reposition the country to being the preferred international destination in the region. Speaking during a media tour of the facility in Lusaka, Thursday, Penny said the resort was targeting...

TRANSPARENCY International Zambia (TIZ) has warned that the Financial Intelligence Centre (FIC) Trends Report risks becoming one of the valueless reports which are intended to give a mimicry of a functioning government. And TI-Z says government has not handled the illegality surrounding Mukula in an appropriate manner and it is clear that there is a...

SECRETARY to the Treasury Fredson Yamba has submitted to the Constitutional Court that the correct amount of repatriation allowances former Cabinet ministers and their deputies, who received emoluments after the dissolution of Parliament in 2016, are entitled to is K8,000 each and not the K15,000 they are claiming. Yamba adds that his office has, therefore,...