INFRASTRUCTURE, Housing, and Urban Development Minister Charles Milupi says the government will utilise the Public Private Partnerships (PPP) to construct as many roads as possible. In an interview, Friday, Milupi said government had no money to venture into road construction on its own. "The number of roads being constructed is based upon the money available...

ENERGY Minister Peter Kapala says the Energy Regulation Board was right to nullify the increased connection and meter separation charges by Zesco. In an interview, Friday, Kapala said his ministry was studying whether anybody had been charged under the purported new rates. “ERB is right. Just read the content of what ERB has said and...

ZAMBIA Medicines and Medical Supplies Agency (ZAMMSA) Board chairperson Dr Anna Chifungula says the board's decision to send the entire management on forced leave was the right thing to do. Last week, the newly appointed ZAMMSA Board resolved to send the entire agency management on forced leave, pending investigations of some serious anomalies at the...

PF information and publicity chairperson Raphael Nakacinda has pleaded not guilty to the charge of defamation of the President. And Nakacinda says President Hichilema has turned himself into a tourist by travelling at every opportunity without due consideration to the costs. In this matter, it is alleged that Nakacinda, on December 13, 2021 in Lusaka,...

Police in Eastern Province have arrested Chipangali District Agricultural Coordinating Officer Fredrick Mwansa together with six others for for allegedly stealing fertiliSer meant for the Farmer Input Support Program. Eastern Province Acting Police Commanding Officer Davis Simwanza confirmed the the incident to journalists in Chipata, Sunday. Simwanza said the DACO, together with six others, were...

MINISTRY of Water Development and Sanitation Permanent Secretary Joe Kalusa has clarified that the contract price advertised in the Daily Mail Newspaper for the supply of 1,084 pre-paid domestic water meters should have read US$271,526 (K4,824,881.26) and not US$271,824,881.26. And Kalusa says disciplinary action has been instituted against the officer who transmitted the wrong figures...

ECONOMIC Front leader Wynter Kabimba says the Patriotic Front is in a confused and disorganised state. And Kabimba says defamation of the President is an obnoxious and ridiculous law. Speaking when he featured on Phoenix FM's Let the People Talk programme, Friday, Kabimba said it was embarrassing that senior PF members could trade insults on...

ATTORNEY General Mulilo Kabesha says a mistake which has been happening is that government enters into contracts on the understanding that there is money available but then delays to make payments when money is diverted, leading to penalties. In an interview, Kabesha said in such instances, the Attorney General was not to blame because at...

LOCAL Government Minister Gary Nkombo says government intends to enforce the public nuisance law as a way of dealing with members of the public fond of littering garbage in undesignated places. Speaking in Parliament, Thursday, Nkombo noted that one of the things which caused flooding in most parts of the country was the littering of...

MINISTRY of Information and Media permanent secretary Kennedy Kalunga says the UPND government will facilitate the establishment of a media self-regulatory framework and enactment of legislation on access to information. Mr Kalunga was speaking during a stakeholder validation meeting on Access to Information, Thursday. Kalunga: “The quest to have the access to information law enacted...