PHARMACIST Jerome Kanyika says the newly appointed Zambia Medicines and Medical Supplies Agency (ZAMMSA) Board is not competent enough to address some technical challenges at that institution. But ZAMMSA Board chairperson Dr Anna Chifungula says those questioning the credibility of the Board must direct their concerns to the Minister, who is the appointing authority. In...

CHAPTER One Foundation and Young Women in Action have commended the government on their efforts to improve gender diversity on public boards such as ZAMMSA and ZNBC. In a joint statement issued, Monday, Chapter One Foundation Executive Director Linda Kasonde and Young Women in Action Executive Director Harriet Chibuta hoped that government would continue along...

PF member of Central Committee Elizabeth Phiri says it is healthy that former ruling party members are fighting amongst themselves without anyone defecting to any other party. And Phiri says the number of presidential hopefuls in the party shows that PF is still attractive. In an interview, Phiri said "fighting within the house and that...

UPND spokesperson Cornelius Mweetwa says President Hakainde Hichilema needs to travel constantly because he has to keep reassuring the international community that Zambia is back on its knees. And Mweetwa says UPND officials will keep referring to the mess which the PF left for as long as the challenges being experienced now can be traced...

WHEN Edgar [Lungu], the man you said was drinking, was exiting, the Kwacha was at K15, but it's now hitting K19 when we have a staunch SDA member who is sober through and through, says Economic Front leader Wynter Kabimba. And Kabimba says if he was President Hakainde Hichilema, he would spend sleepless nights and...

FDD leader Edith Nawakwi has appeared in the Lusaka Magistrates' Court and denied interfering in the affairs of her late husband Geoffrey Hambulo's estate. Nawakwi appeared before magistrate Nthandose Chabala where she pleaded not guilty to the charge of intermeddling. In this matter, one of the six children of the late Hambulo has lodged a...

THE Zambia Law Development Commission (ZLDC) says the proposal to repeal the offence of bigamy, is not in any way aimed at encouraging immorality, but simply to avoid duplication of the law which is provided for in both the Penal Code as well as the Marriage Act. And ZLDC Director Hope Chanda says the commission...

UNEMPLOYED doctors yesterday staged a protest, demanding to be employed in the ongoing recruitment exercise. Doctors marched from Ridgeway to State House, seeking an audience with President Hakainde Hichilema. However, they were intercepted by police officers along Independence Avenue before they could arrive at their destination. Some senior police officers negotiated with the doctors for...

FORMER Attorney General Musa Mwenye State Counsel has observed that under the previous regime, liquidations were weaponised to deprive corporate citizens of their assets in order to enrich a few individuals. And State Counsel Mwenye says it is his prayer that those who abused private prosecutions to harass citizens and constitutional office holders will be...

ONE of the most effective ways in which the UPND government will help reduce wasteful expenditure is through transparency and prudence in the award of public tenders. When it comes to government contracts, wasteful expenditure happens in various ways, some of which are quite complicated and systematic. The former government made a lot of mistakes...