ZAMBIA Industrial Commercial Bank (ZICB) says it is currently trying to collaborate with other financial institutions as a means of making access to cheaper credit possible in view of the high lending rates obtaining on the local market. In an interview, ZICB public relations manager Luke Njovu said the bank was exploring avenues to collaborate...

MUCHINGA Province Police Commissioner Joel Njase says his office will advise when UPND president Hakainde Hichilema will be expected to appear for questioning in the police abduction investigation. Njase said this when he was asked if there was miscommunication within the Police Command on the summonses served on Hichilema, considering that Police Spokesperson Esther Mwaata...

PF MEDIA director Sunday Chanda says Zambia’s democracy is much better than the United States, because US President Donald Trump’s concerns about the credibility of mail-in ballots show that its electoral process was not flawless. And Chanda says the US Chargé d'Affaires to Zambia David Young should concentrate on talking to the UPND and other...

UPND secretary general Stephen Katuka says it is foolish for the police to deny that they summoned party leader Hakainde Hichilema when a call-out was delivered at the secretariat, Friday. And Katuka says it does not make sense that trained police officers can be abducted by common citizens. In an interview, Katuka rebuked the Police...

PRESIDENT Edgar Lungu says he knows he will be re-elected in next year’s general election because of the many works his government has done. Speaking when he drummed up support for PF candidate in the Chilubi Council chairperson by-elections Rosemary Chimbini, in Bulilo ward, Monday, President Lungu said he knows that he would be re-elected....

CHIEF Registrar of the Judiciary Charles Kafunda has distanced the judiciary from the recommendation made by the Judicial Complaints Commission (JCC) to have Magistrate David Simusamba removed from presiding as a judicial officer in a matter where he was found wanting for misconduct. And the JCC chairman William Nyirenda says he does not understand how...

ECONOMIST Trevor Simumba says Zambia should swiftly reach an agreement in principle with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on an economic programme to allay investors' fears and avoid an imminent debt default. The Zambian government wants relief on its debt interest repayments from commercial creditors, which is estimated to provide as much as US $1...