• 2 Mar 2021
• Ulande Nkomesha

Lungu a giant of corruption - Kalaba

DEMOCRATIC Party president Harry Kalaba says President Edgar Lungu and PF members are giants of corruption. And Kalaba says President Lungu should be the last person to show concern on the state of investigative journalism in the country when he has closed and threatened media institutions which reveal corrupt activities in government. Meanwhile, Kalaba says...

• 2 Mar 2021
• Ulande Nkomesha

Solwezi police arrest teacher for gassing pupils

POLICE in North-Western Province have arrested a school teacher at Mushindamo Technical Girls Secondary School in Solwezi for allegedly gassing his pupils using paper spray. In a statement, Monday, North-Western Province Police Commissioner Joel Njase disclosed that the incident occurred on Saturday, February 27, at midnight and that six school girls were currently admitted at...

• 2 Mar 2021
• Ulande Nkomesha

ECZ deliberately disadvantaged some provinces during voter registration - Nalumango

UPND vice-president Mutale Nalumango says the Electoral Commission of Zambia (ECZ) should be ashamed of itself for failing to ensure a fair voter registration process. Commenting on the recently announced provincial voter registration statistics, Nalumango said the statistics indicated that some provinces were deliberately disadvantaged. "I said it when they were producing these figures as...

• 2 Mar 2021
• Zindikilani Banda in Sinda

I'm fine, says Ngoma after surviving Nyimba accident

UPND chairman for agriculture Levy Ngoma has thanked well-wishers after he survived a road traffic accident he was involved in Nyimba District, saying he is fine as all the scans proved that nothing got broken during the potentially life-threatening incident. In an interview, Ngoma, the former Sinda MMD member of parliament who spoke in Chichewa,...

• 2 Mar 2021
• Natasha Sakala

Dora cries foul after video links her to illicit campaign money

INFORMATION and Broadcasting Services Minister Dora Siliya has described the video making rounds about her giving money to PF cadres as fake. The minister says she has since reported the matter to the Inspector General of police. A video has gone viral in which an unidentified man clad in a green PF t-shirt is showing...

• 2 Mar 2021
• Natasha Sakala

Cyber Security Bill is not only about social media, it's also about national security - Siliya

Information and Broadcasting Minister Dora Siliya says the Cyber Security Bill is not only about stoping social media abuse, but also detecting "real threats to a country’s security." And Siliya who is also Chief Government Spokesperson says the country would have reached a point of total collapse if government did not go out to borrow...

• 2 Mar 2021
• Natasha Sakala

Court ruling against Nkhuwa on CEC power lines will impact investor confidence - Silavwe

COPPERBELT Energy Corporation (CEC) chief executive officer Owen Silavwe has hailed the High Court ruling overturning Energy Minister Mathew Nkhuwa’s declaration of its infrastructure as a common carrier, saying it would positively impact investor confidence and investment in the company. Last Friday, Lusaka High Court Judge Elita Mwikisa quashed Nkhuwa’s decision to declare CEC’s transmission...

• 2 Mar 2021
• Abraham Kalito

Whatever KBF says is none of PF's business - Mumbi

KELVIN Bwalya Fube (KBF) should not have to threaten to reveal whatever secrets he claims to have over the PF because he is free to disclose anything he wants now, says Kabwe Central PF member of parliament Tutwa Ngulube. Meanwhile, PF deputy secretary general Mumbi Phiri says she can no longer respond to KBF because...

• 2 Mar 2021
• Julia Malunga

I don’t know any Israeli company we’re working with to spy on citizens – Kafwaya

TRANSPORT and Communications Minister Mutotwe Kafwaya says allegations that the Zambian government is using an Israeli telecommunications company to spy on citizens’ phone calls and text messages are a “bad rumour.” And Kafwaya says the three vehicles he recently donated in his constituency only cost a combined total of K240,000. Zambia has been listed in...

• 2 Mar 2021
• Julia Malunga

Malanji explains his newly acquired K30m helicopter, I can't be so stupid to steal from govt

FOREIGN Affairs Minister Joe Malanji says he cannot be so stupid to steal money from government and buy something like a helicopter which everyone is going to see. Explaining his newly acquired K30 million helicopter, the Kwacha Constituency lawmaker said he spent US$1.4 million (about K30.5 million) to venture into air charter business. In the...