MONZE Central UPND member of parliament Jack Mwiimbu says unlike the PF, UPND has not expelled any member for showing interest to contest the UPND presidency. Commenting on PF national party chairperson Davies Chama’s remarks that the ruling party was democratic, and unlike UPND, it would not intimidate anyone who wanted to challenge President Edgar...

DEMOCRATIC PARTY president Harry Kalaba has described President Edgar Lungu's address to the nation as a scandal and a joke. And Alliance for Community Action executive director Laura Miti says President Lungu failed to address the biggest problems which the country was facing like corruption and a falling economy. Meanwhile, Transparency International Zambia (TI-Z) executive...

PATRIOTIC Front national mobilisation vice chairperson Geoffrey Mwamba Bwalya has told Luampa residents in Western Province not to blame President Edgar Lungu for lack of development if they fail to vote for him in the August 12th general election. Speaking during a mobilization rally in Luampa District, Saturday, GBM said the appointment of Inonge Wina...

THE Zambia Law Development Agency says during the mapping exercise, most inmates and officers submitted against allowing political campaigns in correctional facilities. And the Electoral Commission of Zambia says the Commission was fully guided by the Attorney General to start registering inmates. Speaking during a virtual meeting, Thursday, ZLDC senior research officer Lina Jere said...

HEALTH Minister Dr Jonas Chanda says his ministry is working tirelessly to ensure some issues with the procurement system are fixed so that the "imperfect human beings" tasked to run them cannot have opportunities to sabotage any processes. And Dr Chanda has warned workers at the newly-established Zambia Medicines and Medical Supply Agency (ZAMMSA) of...

EASTERN Province Minister Makebi Zulu says UPND is too thin to make any meaningful gains in the province ahead of this year’s general election. But UPND chairman for agriculture Levy Ngoma says the province is no longer the ruling party’s bedroom as voters had shunned the PF during the recently-held Vubwi local council election. In...

THE Lusaka High Court has dismissed a case in which Vedanta Resources Holdings Limited sued Konkola Copper Mines provisional liquidator Milingo Lungu seeking an injunction restraining him from taking any action to effect or perfect the sale of the mining rights areas of lot No. 694/M belonging to KCM to Rephidim Mining and Technical Supplies...

CHAPTER One Foundation has written to the Zambia Medicines and Medical Supply Agency demanding an account of how the internal quality assurance systems within the Agency failed to uncover defects in medicines and medical supplies that were procured or stored by it prior to their distribution. The organisation has further written to the Zambia Medicines...

THE Zambia National Farmers Union (ZNFU) has called on government to intensify protection of local produce by restricting food imports to only what cannot be grown within. In an interview, ZNFU media and public relations manager Calvin Kaleyi said while government’s decision to restrict onion and table potato imports into the country was welcome, there...

HOME Affairs Minister Stephen Kampyongo says none of the nearly 1.6 million National Registration Cards (NRCs) issued to eligible Zambians between August 1 and November 4, 2020, were given to foreign nationals. Speaking during a ministerial statement on the purported issuance of registration cards to non-eligible persons in Parliament, Thursday, Kampyongo insisted that the Ministry...