PRESIDENT Hakainde Hichilema says the country was going down because the PF failed to conclude the IMF programme for seven years, which his government has done in two months. Speaking to journalists upon arrival from Malawi, President Hichilema said the PF had no credibility to deliver the IMF programme. “What we are doing is that...

BRITISH High Commissioner to Zambia Nicholas Woolley says President Hakainde Hichilema has in his first 100 days in office taken vital steps in the fight against corruption. Speaking at the Zambia Anti Corruption Conference Programme, Tuesday, Woolley welcomed President Hichilema's renewed vigour and drive to address corruption. "Corruption is a global challenge that affects all...

A STATE prosecutor has narrated to the Lusaka High Court how he found and watched over the lifeless body of slain prosecutor Nsama Chipyoka. He was testifying in a matter in which 25-year-old Constable Fanwell Nyundu is facing two counts of murder. When the matter came up for continued trial before Judge Joshua Banda, Tuesday,...

MINISTRY of Fisheries and Livestock Permanent Secretary Dr Anna Songolo and her team were yesterday sent away by the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) after failing to give adequate responses to queries cited in the Auditor General’s report. The Committee was angered by the excuses given by the witnesses and their failure to provide the required...

THE Lusaka High Court has granted permission to SKF Zambia to commence legal proceedings against Konkola Copper Mines, a company in liquidation. This is a matter in which SKF Zambia Limited is demanding payment of US$305,063 for the custom-made inventory it procured and manufactured at the mining company's instance. According to the ex-parte order signed...

THE Anti-Corruption Commission has disclosed that it received 222 reports of suspected corruption between January and August 2021, with more than 100 of those reports made immediately after the general election. And Justice Minister Mulambo Haimbe says his government will not allow criminals to evade justice and will leave no stone unturned by providing a...

SPEAKER of the National Assembly Nelly Mutti has ruled that all members of parliament whose election was nullified by the High Court, whether or not such decision has been appealed against, shall not take part in any Parliamentary business. Rendering a ruling on a point of order raised by Solwezi East UPND member of parliament...

PRESIDENT Hakainde Hichilema has noted that there are complaints that he likes to travel, explaining that people in Dubai worked harder to achieve a lot more. And Malawian President Lazarus Chakwera says Zambia and Malawi have agreed to harmonize and simplify border controls by jointly constructing a one stop border post at Muchinji-Mwami border. Speaking...

FORMER second deputy speaker Mwimba Malama says the confusion happening in PF is being brought by people that are aspiring for the presidency. Commenting on PF member Kelvin Kaunda’s remarks in which he challenged former president Edgar Lungu to address the wrangles happening in the party if he was not the architect of the confusion,...

MWENSE PF member of parliament David Mabumba says the imminent removal of subsidies by the UPND government is against their objectives of creating jobs and reviving the economy. On Monday, Finance Minister Dr Situmbeko Musokotwane said government was spending $67 million per month on fuel subsidies and that in the 2022 budget, there was no...