ZAMBIA Correctional Services (ZCS) Commissioner General Dr Chisela Chileshe has admitted that there were some irregularities in the management of the Prisons Industries Revolving Fund last year. The Auditor General’s Report revealed that in the ZCS, nine correctional facilities in Central Province generated amounts totalling K732,175 from the sale of maize and mealie meal, but...

AT Munyenze Primary School in Monze District of Southern Province, they ‘beat’. No, I don’t mean teachers beating pupils, I mean youths in the community beating up teachers. That’s right. If one comes to this school to impart what is known as the ‘western’ form of education on the younger population, they are ganged up...

UPND deputy secretary general Patrick Mucheleka says it will not be easy to remove the PF from government if the opposition does not unite ahead of the upcoming August 12 general election. In an interview, Mucheleka said opposition parties should unite ahead of the general election to ensure that the PF government was removed from...

LUSAKA Magistrate Felix Kaoma has found a 47-year-old secretary with a case to answer in a matter she is accused of forging a cheque and stealing money from Minister of Labour and Social Security Joyce Simukoko. Nyembezi Masiye will open her defence on January 20, this year. In this matter, Masiye is facing three counts...

DEMOCRATIC Party DP president Harry Kalaba has lamented government's failure to fix the drainage system in Lusaka's Kanyama Compound. Speaking to Kanyama residents during a tour, Thursday, Kalaba said the people of Kanyama deserved better. "This is the rain season but no government officials cares to come and see what is happening here. When I...

VETERAN politician Vernon Johnson Mwaanga says African leaders' insatiable appetite to remain in power at all costs has become a curse to the continent. Commenting on Uganda elections, where there was an internent shut down and the killing and intimidation of opposition supporters in an interview, Mwaanga said the image of African countries had suffered...

THE 24 suspected PF supporters who were arrested last month in Lusaka’s Chawama Compound for being in possession of offensive weapons and trafficking in marijuana, have denied the charges against them. The 24 men, aged between 14 and 48, appeared before the Lusaka Magistrates’ Court yesterday where they pleaded not guilty to the offences. They...

ZAMBIA has in the last 24 hours recorded 1,700 new COVID-19 cases out of 9,038 tests with 5 deaths in the last 24 hours. According to the daily update, the Ministry has stated that the cumulative number of cases has now risen to 32,800 with 514 deaths. The country also recorded 936 recoveries bringing the...

THE Zambia Revenue Authority (ZRA) still owes mining companies a total of K7.1 billion in VAT refunds, says ZRA Commissioner General Kingsley Chanda. And Chanda has announced that the Authority paid a total of K12.9 billion in tax refunds to all businesses last year. Meanwhile, Chanda says government's targeted K59.3 billion in tax revenues this...