MINISTRY of Information and Media permanent secretary Kennedy Kalunga says investment in nuclear energy is key in achieving an affordable and stable source of electricity which isn't affected by fluctuations in weather patterns. Speaking during a media training on Nuclear Programme Implementing Unit (NIPU) activities, Wednesday, Kalunga said steep fluctuations in rainfall patterns as a...

A BUSINESS executive has told the court how he was, in June 2016, requested by the Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) to provide it with a list of names of people who had applied to buy plots in a project he was spearheading in Chalala, Lusaka. Lombe Andrew Bwalya, who is the third witness in the...

CHIEF Government Spokesperson Chushi Kasanda says former president Edgar Lungu shunned the launch of the Kenneth Kaunda Wing at Mulungushi International Conference Centre because he is still bitter with everything around him. But PF acting secretary general Nickson Chilangwa says Lungu made the right decision to shun the event because he would have been embarrassed....

THE Electoral Commission of Zambia (ECZ) has launched the continuous voter registration process in all provincial centres. Speaking during the launch at the Lusaka City Council Library, Wednesday, ECZ Chairperson Esau Chulu said registration centres had been set in all respective provincial centres and would operate five days in a week, excluding holidays and weekends....

Former Attorney General Likando Kalaluka SC says he can’t remember anything about the US$5.35 million office buildings purchase agreement between Zamworth and the Ministry of Housing and Infrastructure Development. Yesterday, governance activist Rueben Lifuka said Kalaluka must be taken to task for facilitating a deal which saw government pay K5,350,000 property tax on behalf of...

ECONOMIC Front leader Wynter Kabimba says he does not think Judicial Service Commission is operating under an environment which guarantees independence, arguing that the presidential appointees who sit on the commission influence most decisions such as the recent transfer of Magistrates. Last week, JSC chairperson Mwikisa Mukande State Counsel said the recent transfer of 10...

ENERGY Minister Peter Kapala says the $2.3 billion billion Kafue Gorge power project will be completed through local financing. In a statement, Wednesday, Kapala said although government wasn't considering asking Exim Bank to unfreeze funding to the project, negotiations with China to restructure and reschedule the debt were on course. “The remaining construction works at...

MINE Workers Union of Zambia president Joseph Chewe says the 20 percent salary increment which Vedanta has promised to give KCM workers once it regains control of the mine has left employees divided on whether the investor should return or not. Last week, Vedanta Zambia Corporate Communications Director Masuzyo Ndhlovu said workers at Konkola Copper...

KABWATA UPND member of parliament Andrew Tayengwa says sometimes he wonders why people say he is an absentee MP, arguing that people want him to be “dancing to their tune”, but that will not happen. And Tayengwa says he is one of the few MPs who had initiated projects even before the Constituency Development Fund...

KANCHIBIYA PF member of parliament Sunday Chanda says Constituency Development Fund guidelines need to be immediately revised because they're frustrating delivery. In an interview, Chanda said the guidelines were taking the country 10 steps backwards. "The guidelines are clogging the effective and efficient usage of the CDF funds and the manner they have been cast...