THE Auditor General's report on the accounts of parastatal bodies for the financial year ended December 31, 2020, has revealed that the National Health Insurance Management Authority (NHIMA) recorded wasteful expenditure in amounts totalling K16,369,812. And the report has revealed that 29 investee companies did not declare any dividends to the Industrial Development Corporation (IDC)...

ENERGY Minister Peter Kapala has stressed that there will be no increment in electricity tariffs until the cost of service study is analysed. In an interview, Monday, Kapala said the study was yet to reach his office as it was expected to be at the Ministry of Energy either this week or next week. He...

THE Constitutional Court has dismissed an application in which PF MPs asked it to stay the Speaker's decision to order them to vacate the National Assembly pending determination of their appeals. This is a matter in which eight PF members of parliament are challenging the Speaker’s decision to suspend them from parliament after the nullification...

MINISTER of Education Douglas Syakalima says government has postponed the re-opening of schools which was scheduled for January 10 to January 24, 2022, due to the upswing in COVID-19 cases. And Syakalima has announced that all the 409, 441 candidates who sat the 2021 Grade 7 Composite Examination will progress to Grade 8, but adds...

SECRETARY to the Treasury Felix Nkulukusa has announced that the Treasury has released K1.284 billion, of which K960 million is for outstanding payments to farmers under the 2020/2021 farming season, while K324 million is the 2022 first-quarter operational support fund for public schools. In a statement, Monday, Nkulukusa stated that the K324 million was aimed...

MPOROKOSO PF member of parliament Brian Mundubile says 2022 will be a tough year for citizens because of the expected high cost of living. In an interview, Saturday, Mundubile said this year would also be tough for the youths because there were no incentives for the private sector that would result in employment for the...

ATTORNEY General Mulilo Kabesha says it is not ZIALE's intention to steal money from students by making them fail, further proposing that pre-examinations should maybe be given to learners before they are admitted to the institution. The recently announced Zambia Institute of Advanced Legal Education (ZIALE) bar exam results revealed that only one student passed...

HEALTH Minister Sylvia Masebo has observed that more than 85 percent of the patients admitted for COVID-19 are unvaccinated. And Masebo says more than 1,750,959 vaccinations were administered to members of the public as of December 31, 2021. Speaking during a media briefing, Monday, Masebo disclosed that 3,346 people died from COVID-related complications in 2021....

We had the same hopes for 2021 a year ago, but look how that turned out. Still, we persevere. A wise Asian man once said “simply choose to be optimistic, for it is better to be an optimist who is sometimes wrong than a pessimist who is always right.” Here are some of the things...