PRESIDENT Edgar Lungu has asked the police service to be fair in the execution of their duties as the country goes to the polls next year. Speaking when he toured the newly constructed Kanyama police station and police camp, President Lungu said he would continue to support the police with necessary equipment which they needed...

UPND leader Hakainde Hichilema says the interest rates on student loans being applied by the Higher Education Loans and Scholarship Board (HELSB) to beneficiaries is too high. But HELSB corporate communications officer Kawanda Chiselwa says the current interest rates are only pegged at 15 per cent. Hichilema argued in a statement that graduates’ current earnings...

SENANGA UPND member of parliament Mukumbuta Mulowa says Hakainde Hichilema cannot chase him from the party for voting for the Constitution Amendment Bill Number 10 of 2019 which fell off last week. In an interview, Mulowa said he was still a member of the opposition party and that he was going to recontest his seat...

THE Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) says a fake teacher has been committed to prison for six months after failing to pay a K60,000 fine slapped on her in February this year by the Nakonde Magistrates' Court. In a statement, Thursday, ACC public relations manager Timothy Moono stated that Catherine Nakamba aged 30, of Muzabwela Village...

A MAN of Matero township has been convicted by the Lusaka High Court for causing the death of a suspected gasser earlier this year after he joined a crowd in beating the deceased. Christopher Sheleni, 25, was convicted by Lusaka High Court judge Mwila Kombe yesterday after he pleaded guilty to the charge of manslaughter....

SUSPENDED Eastern Province PF youth chairperson Emmanuel Banda, commonly known as Jay Jay ,and four others, have denied assaulting a police officer at Lusaka Central Police Station. The five pleaded not guilty to the charge of aggravated assault before Lusaka High Court Judge Wilfred Muma Thursday morning. In this matter, Banda, 35, a businessman of...

ENERGY Minister Mathews Nkhuwa says there will be eight to 12 hours of load shedding for seven days, starting this Sunday, to facilitate the filling of Kafue Gorge lower dam. Rendering a ministerial statement to Parliament, Thursday, Nkhuwa said the new dam filling would result in increased load shedding in the first 24 hours as...

SPEAKER of the National Assembly Dr Patrick Matibini has ruled that the result for the vote on the Constitution of Zambia (Amendment) Bill Number 10 cannot be re-visited or revised and shall stand as recorded on the system on Thursday last week. And Dr Matibini says contrary to Chifubu PF member of parliament Frank Ng'ambi’s...

PF supporter Innocent Kalimanshi and two others have appeared before the Lusaka Magistrates’ Court and denied assault charges against them. Kalimanshi and the others were arrested in connection with a fracas that allegedly happened in Chawama constituency on October 27, this year, between two groups of Patriotic Front youths. Kalimanshi, aged 34, Nathan Phiri, 43,...