MINISTRY of Transport and Communications Permanent Secretary Misheck Lungu has wondered why some of the queries that were contained in the Auditor General’s report were not resolved in-house even when information was readily available. Responding to Parliamentary Public Accounts Committee (PAC) chairperson Howard Kunda, who wanted to find out why certain queries kept recurring and...

PF NATIONAL mobilisation chairperson Richard Musukwa says UPND president Hakainde Hichilema has hired intelligence experts from the UK, America and Israel to help him win the 2021 elections. And Musukwa says the opposition leader is casting aspersions on the Electoral Commission of Zambia because he is already panicking, knowing very well that he doesn't have...

LUSAKA Province Minister Bowman Lusambo says people that visited Lusaka three years ago will now mistake it for Los Angeles because President Edgar Lungu has transformed the city’s infrastructure. And United States Chargé d’Affaires interim David Young says he is looking forward to an interesting election next year. Speaking when Young paid a courtesy call...

THE Copperbelt Energy Corporation (CEC) has asked the Lusaka High Court to quash Energy Minister Matthew Nkhuwa’s decision to declare its transmission and distribution lines as a common carrier, arguing that its unlawful as it is based on illegality. However, the State has insisted that the decision by Nkhuwa was legal, procedurally correct and made...

PRESIDENT Edgar Lungu has launched the Economic Recovery Plan (ERP) 2020-2023, which will set the tone for the Medium-Term Expenditure Framework (MTEF), replacing the Economic Growth Stabilisation Programme, popularly known as Zambia Plus 2017-2019. And President Lungu says government will no longer tolerate exploitation from mining investors, who seek to “prowl from Zambia’s natural resources.”...