USAID'S COVID-19 Task Force Executive Director Jeremy Konyndyk says the agency has been very impressed with Zambia's COVID-19 vaccination performance. Speaking during a media briefing after touring the Centre for Infectious Diseases Research in Zambia (CIDRZ) office, Friday, Konyndyk, who was on a two-day mission to learn how Zambia was combating COVID-19, said if this...

SENIOR Chief Kaputa of Kaputa District in Northern Province says most people in rural areas think COVD-19 is a hoax and are skeptical about getting vaccinated because they haven't seen its effects on the ground. In an interview, Chief Kaputa, who has been vaccinated himself, noted that although most people in rural areas were skeptical...

Ephesians 5v 22- 25 ‘WIVES, submit to your own husbands as to the Lord. v23For the husband is the head of the wife, as also Christ is head of the Church and He is the Savior of the Body.v24Therefore, just as the church is subject to Christ, so let the wives be to their own...

PF lawyer Tutwa Ngulube says all those being harassed by the UPND government will be compensated by the state, adding that the country’s resources cannot be "tarnished" all in the name of pleasing a few individuals. In an interview, Ngulube said from his experience as a politician and a lawyer, there was always a price...

ZESCO Limited Board Chairperson Vickson Ncube says the utility company has halted standard connection approvals as it awaits the cost-of-service study report to be out because the company doesn't have the money to subsidise. Energy Minister Peter Kapala recently said there would be no increment in both electricity tariffs and connection fees before the cost...

GOVERNANCE activist Rueben Lifuka says the UPND government should reflect on the fight against corruption and recalibrate it, for the sake of the Zambian people who put faith in their party. And Lifuka says UPND should not become immune to public criticism. Commenting on Justice Minister Mulambo Haimbe's remarks that the new dawn government had...

SESHEKE UPND member of parliament Romeo Kang'ombe says some people in the rank and file of governance systems, who have failed to transform their mindsets, may cost the UPND. In an interview, Kang'ombe said the majority of those in the civil service who were frustrating the government's work regarding the fight against corruption were aligned...

PRESIDENTIAL Spokesperson Anthony Bwalya says the country is at war because people who were involved in corruption under the previous administration are not sleeping and are devising tactics on how can they beat the system. Speaking when he featured on Sun FM, Saturday, Bwalya said the message of ending corruption would not be taken seriously...

LAW Association of Zambia (LAZ) president Abyudi Shonga says piecemeal amendments of the Constitution are retrogressive and not good for the country. Speaking during the launch of the LAZ Consultative Constitution Project, Friday, Shonga said there was sufficient information already gathered in various constitutional review commission reports reflective of the will of the Zambian people....

ECONOMIST Chibamba Kanyama has commended the Bank of Zambia for maintaining the monetary policy rate at 9%, saying any adjustment, either upward or downward, would have induced some level of uncertainty. In an interview, Thursday, Kanyama said the current monetary policy rate had proved to be working well. “There is a phrase 'if it ain't...