INFRASTRUCTURE, Housing, and Urban Development Minister Charles Milupi says government will cancel exorbitantly priced road contracts without increasing liabilities and renegotiate those where such a route is possible. In an interview, Milupi said government had engaged contractors who were relooking a number of projects with inflated prices. “We had cultivated [a] culture in this country...

RAINBOW Party general secretary Wynter Kabimba says the Public Order Act will still remain a controversial law even if the UPND government tries to amend it. In an interview, Thursday, Kabimba said many African governments, including Zambia, preached democracy during the day and did something else at night. He said improving on provisions of the...

MINISTER of Transport and Logistics Frank Tayali says the recently unveiled 2022 national budget has sent shock waves to the PF. In an interview, Saturday, Tayali said his government had demonstrated that every Zambian deserved a share of the national cake. "This government has demonstrated that every Zambian regardless of where they are located, deserve...

DEFENCE Minister Ambrose Lufuma says the Zambia National Service (ZNS) has not gone into marijuana production yet, but might consider it. The Minister was responding to a question from Roan Independent member of parliament Joel Chibuye on whether ZNS was engaging in marijuana production in Parliament on Thursday. Lufuma said the defence force might consider...

Zesco Limited, under the management of Victor Mundende, has made some very perplexing - nay - costly decisions and actions for Zambia. Recently, the Minister of Energy, Peter Kapala, disclosed in his ministerial statement to the National Assembly that the electricity state-owned enterprise owed as much as US$ 3.5 billion to various local and cross-border...

PF vice president Given Lubinda says he is not interested in being PF president at the moment because the party is not organised. In an interview, Lubinda said it was unfortunate that some members who wanted to contest the PF presidency were failing to reorganize the party structures. "All of us [members] of the central...

PF DEPUTY national chairperson Davies Chama says the unruly behaviour portrayed by some former ruling party cadres during the Michael Sata's memorial service was unacceptable. There was confusion during the memorial service when some PF cadres arrived at the solemn event bearing “Kambwili 2026” banners while shouting "Imbwili". The youths argued with some ushers who...

TRANSPARENCY International Zambia (TI-Z) president Sampa Kalungu says President Hakainde Hichilema needs to give space to law enforcement agencies to investigate all the corruption cases he has hinted at in the past few weeks so that culprits can be brought to book. Commenting on President Hichilema’s revelations that some none deserving suppliers who supplied fictitious...

A CLINICAL officer at the University of Zambia clinic has testified how a female student was taken to the facility while crying after she was allegedly indecently assaulted by a lecturer at the institution. This is a matter in which Austin Mbozi, a lecturer at the University, is charged with indecent assault on females. Allegations...

UPND secretary general Batuke Imenda says former president Edgar Lungu is mocking Zambians by apologising for the misdeeds of his administration. And Imenda says his office did not receive an invitation to late president Micheal Sata's memorial service. Commenting on Lungu's apology, Imenda said Zambians went through a lot of trauma under PF. "Let him...