LAST week, we raised questions around the DPP’s ability to prosecute some members of the previous regime given the fact that, not only is she close to some of the former ministers and MPs, but also because she knows that she was put in that position for a purpose. Our concern in that editorial opinion...

RWANDAN President Paul Kagame says more can be done in attracting investors to know about what is being offered in Livingstone. And President Hakainde Hichilema says Zambians must actively market tourist attractions in Livingstone and other parts of the country. Speaking when the two Heads of State toured Mukuni Big 5 Safaris, Tuesday, President Kagame...

THE Zambia Public Procurement Authority says it has with immediate effect suspended Marshal's Electronic Systems from participating in public procurement in Zambia for one year due to underperformance of contractual obligations. In a statement, Tuesday, ZPPA public relations officer Nchimunya Muganya clarified that the suspension did not in any way limit the company from performing...

HONEYBEE Pharmacy Limited has sued government in the Lusaka High Court, demanding payment of almost US$4 million for the supply of health kits, saying that failure to receive this money will incapacitate the company. According to the statement of claim filed in the Lusaka High Court, Tuesday, Honeybee which is being represented by Tutwa S....

ZAMBIA Chamber of Commerce, Trade and Industry president Chabuka Kawesha says benefits with regards to economic development do not just happen overnight. In an interview, Kabwesha was reacting to concerns that people could not feel any benefit after the drop in inflation. “Benefits with regard to economic development do not just happen overnight. That, we...

GOVERNMENT, in collaboration with the European Union, has launched a Twinning Project meant to provide support to the Office of the Auditor General. The project would see about €2 million of capacity and technical support provided to the Auditor General. In a speech read on his behalf by Secretary to the Treasury Felix Nkulukusa during...

THE KASAMA Municipal Council yesterday struggled to explain to the Parliamentary Committee on Local Government Accounts how it spent K102,961 to build an ablution block foundation, when only a contract sum of K45,379 was awarded to complete the project. And Council Town Clerk Zakeyo Mbao said the Council borrowed K375,000 from ZANACO in order to...

A LAW firm, Ellis and Company, has withdrawn from acting for former justice minister Given Lubinda, former lands minister Jean Kapata and former president Edgar Lungu’s daughter, Tasila, in the Mukula smuggling matter in which they sued News Diggers Media Limited and the EIA in January 2020, demanding damages for libel. Cramos Makanda, from Ellis...

MATERO PF member of parliament Miles Sampa says the 2022 budget is on the verge of collapse, because the expenditure side has outweighed the actualised revenues for the first quarter. In a statement, Tuesday, Sampa said as long as the government was failing to tax mines, the Zambian people would remain in poverty. "I think...

POLICE spokesperson Rae Hamoonga says police have recorded a warn and caution statement from Chilufya Tayali for inciting to mutiny, alleging that he used social media to seduce persons serving in the Defence Force and Zambia Police Service from their duty of Allegiance to the Republican President. In a statement around 17:58 hours, Hamoonga said...