AUDITOR General Dr Dick Sichembe has urged his officers to ensure that 2021 audits extensively look at citizen empowerment programmes. According to a statement issued by head of public relations Ellen Chikale, Thursday, Dr Sichembe was speaking when he officially opened the planning meeting for his office. Dr Sichembe also urged his officers to not...

GREEN Party leader Peter Sinkamba has welcomed the move by the United Nations to decriminalise cannabis and cannabis resin by removing it from Schedule IV of the 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs. In a statement, Sinkamba said this would encourage the country to re-evaluate the drugs classification and pave way for more investments and...

FORMER secretary to the cabinet Dr Sketchley Sacika says government should focus on fixing the economy rather than complicating things by giving meaningless salary increments to civil servants. Dr Sacika noted that government’s meagre eight per cent salary increment would not solve civil servants’ huge financial problems due to the overwhelming economic challenges afflicting the...

HEALTH Minister Dr Chitalu Chilufya has reiterated his "unequivocal" support for President Edgar Lungu's third term bid. And Dr Chilufya says government has recruited 25,000 health workers since 2016. Speaking when he featured on K-FM radio in Mansa, Wednesday evening, Dr Chilufya urged Luapula residents to register as voters so that they could retain President...

THE Copperbelt Energy Corporation Plc has declared a dividend to its shareholders amounting to 2.1 US cents per share for the 2020 financial year following an improved financial performance during the second-half of this year. According to an interim dividend notice released, Wednesday, CEC announced that it had declared a dividend of 2.1 US cents...

THE Lusaka Magistrates' Court has set January 8, 2021, for ruling on case or no case to answer in a matter in which former Minister of Community Development and Social Services Emerine Kabanshi is charged with willful failure to comply with the law and applicable procedure or guidelines relating to procurement involving the Social Cash...

NDC president Chishimba Kambwili has asked the Lusaka Magistrates’ Court to acquit him in a case in which he is accused of expressing racial remarks against an Indian national. This was after the State closed its case, Wednesday. Kambwili, through his lawyer Keith Mweemba, asked the Court to acquit him on grounds that the purported...

LUSAKA Chief Resident Magistrate Lameck Mwale has asked the lawyer, who was representing late Republican Progressive Party (RPP) leader James Lukuku, to produce the death certificate at the next court sitting in a case he was charged with expressing hatred or contempt against Chinese nationals due to their race. This is for the purpose of...

HUMAN Rights Commission (HRC) spokesperson Mwelwa Muleya has wondered why opposition members of parliament are questioning its work and relevance when they remain major beneficiaries of its interventions. In an interview, Muleya said that the Commission did not owe it to anyone to divulge information on their operations. He was reacting to sharp concerns coming...

THE Energy Regulation Board (ERB) has announced that an investigation into the alleged unusual and unexplained depletion of electricity units on Zesco Limited’s prepaid metres have found nothing irregular as the devices meet the required specifications. In a statement, Thursday, ERB public relations manager Kwali Mfuni announced that investigations into the alleged unusual and unexplained...