KASENENGWA PF aspiring member of parliament Philemon Twasa says Zambia has the cheapest commodities compared to its eight neighbouring countries. In an interview, Twasa said people from neighbouring countries were buying commodities in Zambia because they had discovered that prices were cheaper. “Of course those concerns are there and usually the high cost of living...

KAPIRI Mposhi UPND aspiring member of parliament Stanley Kakubo says the PF cannot be trusted with Zambia's future because they have no capacity to deal with the country’s problems. In an interview, Kakubo said the country needed a new beginning. “We need a new beginning, we cannot trust PF with the future of our country...

MINISTRY of Information permanent secretary Amos Malupenga says funds meant for the implementation of the debt swap will come from the government treasury. And Malupenga says about 60,000 public service workers are expected to benefit from the debt swap. Speaking when he featured on Hot FM’s Hot Seat programme, Tuesday, Malupenga said government was doing...

LUSAKA High Court Judge Sharon Newa has acquitted a former head boy of Twin Palm Secondary School and three juveniles who were accused of killing a Kabulonga Boys Secondary School pupil. In this matter, four former Twin Palm Secondary School pupils aged between 16 and 19 were alleged to have on December 4, 2020, jointly...

FORMER Minister of Health Dr Brian Chituwo says the country might experience a fourth wave of the COVID-19 pandemic if public premises continue abrogating COVID-19 guidelines. In an interview, Tuesday, Dr Chituwo said there was need to avoid abrogating the COVID-19 guidelines to avoid experiencing another wave. "In areas where these guys are abrogating the...

PF member of the Central Committee Paul Moonga says Zambians will be regarded as ungrateful if they vote PF out despite the party performing very well in the last 10 years. In an interview, Tuesday, Moonga said the PF government had delivered development across the country and deserved to be re-elected. "Extremely, extremely, they would...

LUSAKA businessman Diego Cassili has denied media reports indicating that an OCiDA Parallel Vote Tabulation (PVT) project scheduled for the August Polls has been hijacked by UPND sympathisers headed by him. On Tuesday, the Daily Nation newspaper carried a story indicating that an uproar had broken out within OCiDA, following reports that the said project...

TRANSPARENCY International Zambia (TIZ) has revealed that in June, PF spent K6.05 million on campaign billboards across the country, followed by Socialist party at K2.26 million and UPND at K1.31 million. In a statement, with regards to TIZ’s 2021 Elections Project, TIZ executive director Maurice Nyambe noted that for the month of June, the expenditure...

SPECIAL Assistant to the President for Press and Public Relations Isaac Chipampe says President Edgar Lungu will be the happiest person if corruption in the country is eradicated. Commenting on the report by the Financial Intelligence Center (FIC) that in 2020, the country lost about K3.1 billion through corruption, tax evasion, fraud, illegal mining and...

MINISTRY of Health Permanent Secretary for Technical Services Dr Kennedy Malama has announced that the country will today, Wednesday, receive 151,200 doses of the Johnson and Johnson vaccine. And Dr Malama says 87 premises have been closed in the last 24 hours. Speaking during the daily COVID-19 briefing, Tuesday, Dr Malama thanked the United States...