PRESIDENT Hakainde Hichilema says the last seven years have been difficult for Zambia, adding that he sometimes feels ashamed to see how the country failed to seize the opportunity from where it was in 2011. And newly appointed World Bank Vice President for Eastern and Southern Africa Victoria Kwakwa has congratulated the UPND administration on...

GOVERNMENT has called on all law enforcement agencies to leave no stone unturned in their duties, saying Zambians earlier warned the PF leadership that they would be investigated. In a statement, Wednesday, Chief government spokesperson Chushi Kasanda said government was concerned about a plan devised by PF to frustrate investigations against their members by intimidating...

MINISTER of Small and Medium Enterprises Development Elias Mubanga says the new dawn government cares about its people, but citizens must also understand that there must be sanity in the country. In an interview, Mubanga said the government wanted to bring sanity even among the salaula traders. He said mobile money booth operators would continue...

THE corruption fight has gotten real, they are now crying loudest because the law is blind to who one is, says Presidential Spokesperson Anthony Bwalya. And Bwalya says political lives of certain individuals were killed a long time ago by Zambians, arguing that it has nothing to do with law enforcement agencies. Former president Edgar...

PF lawyer Tutwa Ngulube says the ongoing fight against corruption is not vicious, arguing that thieves and criminals who stole are not even scared because investigators sometimes look lost and blank during interrogations. In an interview, Ngulube urged President Hakainde Hichilema to rethink the anti-corruption fight strategy. “This country deserves better. Speaking not only as...

A POLICE officer who was based at Shimabala Police Post in Chilanga has been sentenced to death by hanging for murdering a passenger in 2020. Lusaka High Court Judge Ruth Chibbabbuka ruled that Mazuba Mwiinga, 47, who was charged with the murder of Hillary Kapyanga on July 20, 2020, near the Shimabala Toll Plaza, will...

DEPUTY Chief Justice Michael Musonda says Zambia looks forward to joining other nations on the African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights in order to champion and properly promote the rights of citizens. And African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights president Justice Amani Aboud says the court's visit was to talk about Zambia’s way...

MINISTRY of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Permanent Secretary Isabelle Lemba says 12 of the 13 heads of state who are members of the union are expected to attend the 4th African Union (AU) Mid-Year Coordination Meeting. And AU Commission Deputy Chief of Staff Ambassador Tordeta Ratebaye says various heads of state are expected to...

MEDICAL Practitioners at Kitwe Teaching Hospital have successfully removed a bullet that was lodged in the neck of a 14-year-old boy who was shot by his grandfather over the weekend. A 61-year-old retired miner of Kitwe recently shot himself dead after shooting his daughter and grandson. Isaac Gondwe shot his 26-year-old daughter who sustained a...

WE are continuing with the discussion around the propensity by the Drug Enforcement Commission to seize assets from people without investigating, because in our view, this far exceeds the law requirement. What the UPND government has done to Mr Ndambo is embarrassing and it is an outright abuse of power. In fact, the Drug Enforcement...