CHIEF Justice Dr Mumba Malila has urged newly sworn in members of the service commission to resist the temptation of avenging wrongs which might have happened in the past. Speaking during a swearing in ceremony at the Lusaka High Court, Thursday, Justice Malila reminded the new service commissioners that the treatment of public service officers...

THE case in which former Ministry of Health permanent Dr Kennedy Malama and five others are facing corruption charges will be tried by the newly constituted Economic and Financial Crimes Division Court. When the case came up before Chief Resident Magistrate Dominic Makalicha, Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) prosecutor, T Mundenda, informed the court that the matter...

WORKERS at the Department of National Parks and Wildlife yesterday held a countrywide protest, demanding improvement of conditions of service, removal of Protective salary scale (PSS) and categorisation of them being civil servants or security wings. And Ministry of Tourism Permanent Secretary Evans Muhanga says the workers' concerns will be addressed. In an interview, a...

THE annual inflation rate for January 2022 has dropped to 15.1 percent from 16.4 percent recorded in December last year. Speaking during a media briefing, Thursday, Zambia Statistics Agency interim statistician general Mulenga Musepa said the slowdown in annual inflation was mainly attributed to favourable price movements in food items. "Annual inflation for January, 2022...

KALANDANYA Music Promotions (KMP) proprietor Bwalya Kalandanya has sued PF acting secretary general Nickson Chilangwa for failure to pay fees for music services rendered to the party during last year's general election campaigns. Kalandanya is demanding K13.5 million from PF with interest. In a statement of claim, the money Kalandanya is demanding is for production,...

MPOROKOSO PF member of parliament Brian Mundubile says the loss of the two ward by-elections in Luapula and Western Provinces has come as a shock to the party. In an interview, Mundubile said the party was still trying to interrogate and understand what actually happened. “Well, of course that shocked all of us. We did...

SUCCESS for the UPND is very easy because they took over from the most reckless government in history. The PF government messed up so big that Zambians would have opted to vote for any other opposition party, even if the UPND was not there. It’s like sitting for an exam where the previous student has...

PF CADRE Maxwell Chongu has pleaded not guilty in a matter in which he is charged with unlawful wounding. When the matter came up for plea before magistrate Thandose Chabala, Wednesday, Chongu ,40, pleaded denied committing the offence of unlawful wounding. In this matter, it is alleged that Chongu, a businessman on 4th March, 2017...