NEW Heritage Party president Chishala Kateka has urged the UPND government to come up with a short term plan to meet the immediate needs of Zambian youths and graduates in the interim. Commenting on Finance and National Planning Minister Dr Situmbeko Musokotwane's assurance that the UPND government had a job creation and economic recovery plan,...

FORMER president Edgar Lungu's aide de camp Chisanga Chanda has been committed to the High Court to undergo trial in a case in which he is accused of assisting murder-accused Shebby Chilekwa. Chanda is charged with one count of accessories after the fact to murder. It is alleged that Chanda, while knowing that one Shebby...

FORMER Lusaka Archbishop Telesphore Mpundu says he would be lying if he said he is satisfied with UPND's governance so far. In an interview, last Wednesday, Archbishop Mpundu said Zambians were anxious to see meaningful change, adding that the pace at which everything was being done was insufficient. "Well I would be telling a lie...

PF Member of the Central Committee Mwiimba Malama says PF members should first check their conduct before commenting on the wellbeing and future of the party. And Malama says it is practically impossible to abandon all old Members of the Central Committee, arguing that those advocating for such are being sponsored by other political parties....

JUSTICE Minister Mulambo Haimbe says implementation of the Constituency Development Fund (CDF) will go a long way in dealing with impatience among the youths. In an interview, Haimbe said there would be a change in people's mindsets once CDF was disbursed. "I feel that the implementation of the CDF will go a long way in...

LUSAKA High Court judge Dorcus Malama has dissolved the marriage between former Chilanga UPND member of parliament Keith Mukata and wife Maricoh Roisin Hoare. Last year on November 5, Maricoh filed for divorce, alleging that her marriage with Mukata had broken down irretrievably. In response, Mukata filed an answer and cross-petition in which he admitted...

NEWLY appointed Development Bank of Zambia (DBZ) board chairperson Noel Nkoma says the new board will ensure that it restores public confidence in the Bank, adding that before the end of the year, they want to see DBZ resume lending operations. In an interview, Nkoma said the Bank needed to play its rightful role of...

STATE HOUSE says all erring contractors and suppliers who participated in the deliberate scheme to defraud the country will be blacklisted and precluded from conducting any business with government. In a statement, Monday, Presidential Spokesperson Anthony Bwalya said the process of blacklisting would extend to both individuals and the companies they own, control and enjoy...

PRESIDENTIAL Spokesperson Anthony Bwalya says he posted Patriots for Economic Progress president Sean Tembo's pictures in which he was bleeding after being attacked by some suspected PF cadres in 2019 to illustrate that the country was coming from a brutal regime. In an interview, Bwalya said the move was not in any way meant to...

MINISTER of Health Sylvia Masebo expressed disappointment at a rate which suicide cases are being recorded in Zambia, further directing health workers to treat suicide attempts as medical, psychiatric emergencies. And Masebo says in 2021, 89 people died by suicide, 72 of whom were male while 17 were female. At a press briefing, Monday, Masebo...