VICE-PRESIDENT Inonge Wina says government is currently engaging the Electoral Commission of Zambia (ECZ) over concerns raised by members of parliament on the need to extend the voter registration exercise. And Vice-President Wina says government is still sourcing funds to ensure that those who were not captured in the first phase of the mobile issuance...

TRANSPORT and Communications Minister Mutotwe Kafwaya says he is satisfied with the voter registration exercise in his Lunte constituency of Northern Province. But Monze Central UPND member of parliament Jack Mwiimbu has urged the Electoral Commission of Zambia (ECZ) to extend the voter registration exercise deadline given the low number of registered voters. In an...

COMMERCE, Trade and Industry Minister Christopher Yaluma says mealie meal prices have drastically reduced in districts where solar hammer mills are operational. Responding to a question from Kabompo UPND member of parliament Ambrose Lufuma who wanted to find out whether the establishment of solar hammer mill had lived up to their objective in reducing the...

NATIONAL Action for Quality Education of Zambia (NAQEZ) has warned that teachers and learners are not safe in schools as COVID-19 prevention measures are not being adhered to. In an interview, NAQEZ executive director Aaron Chansa noted that the revelation that some COVID-19 cases were recorded since schools had re-opened had vindicated them. “The revelations...

PF SECRETARY General Davies Mwila says he has no intentions of contesting as a member of parliament in Chipili constituency in the 2021 general elections. Addressing Chipili residents, Friday, Mwila said that as PF Secretary General, he held the third highest position in the party and was therefore not interested in degrading himself to become...

LUSAKA Province PF chairman Paul Moonga says he is a threat to many politicians in the party and some people want him out. Reacting to media reports that he had been fired from his position in an interview, Moonga described them as rumours, saying he was yet to receive any information about his alleged dismissal....

THE Court of Appeal has upheld the conviction and life sentence imposed on a Lusaka man who sexually abused his five-year-old nephew. Court of Appeal deputy judge president Chalwe Mchenga and justices Betty Majula and Mwiinde Siavwapa found no merit in the appeal by Victor Mulungwe against the sentence, saying the trial judge was entitled...

A UNIP Trustee in charge of a property owned by the party in Chaisa Township has sued a councillor of the same area, Ruth Phiri, for allegedly hiring people to demolish a toilet at the said property that services tenants. Fackson Njovu, suing as Trustee of UNIP, is seeking costs of rebuilding the said toilet...

THE State has submitted that Energy Minister Matthew Nkhuwa’s decision to declare the Copperbelt Energy Corporation’s transmission and distribution lines as a common carrier, was not made in bad faith. Attorney General Likando Kalaluka has argued that the said decision was made within the legal limits of Section 15 of the Electricity Act and was...