AGRICULTURE Minister Mtolo Phiri says questions regarding the fertiliser procurement tender for the 2022/2023 farming season can be addressed later because the important thing right now is that suppliers have been identified to deliver inputs. And Phiri says the Ministry has signed contracts with six suppliers who will deliver farming inputs within this week. In...

HOME Affairs and Internal Security Minister Jack Mwiimbu says the country has recorded 18 sodomy cases this year.  And Mwiimbu says government had reached out to embassies which had mounted rainbow flags.   Meanwhile, Mwiimbu says he has heard unconfirmed reports of a clinic which was established during PF’s tenure which renders services to homosexuals. ...

UPND Deputy Secretary General Gertrude Imenda says ruling party youths are frustrated because PF members are still the ones running the show in government while they are not benefitting from their struggles. And Imenda says party youths who are calling for the removal of Secretary General Batuke Imenda and demanding that he should be replaced...

POLICE have clarified that the man reported to have passed on at Soweto market after allegedly being savagely sodomised actually died as a result of disseminated Tuberculosis and had an outgrowth on his anus. ZNBC recently reported that a man between the ages of 20 to 30 had died at Soweto market after being savagely...

RENOWNED billionaire Elon Musk says he looks forward to providing Starlink service to the people of Zambia. And Technology Minister Felix Mutati says Starlink Business Operations offers high speed world-class broadband internet which can be picked from any part of the world through satellite. President Hakainde Hichilema recently held talks with Starlink Business Operations vice-president...

ACTING Foreign Affairs Minister Mulambo Haimbe says most Heads of State who were invited to Queen Elizabeth II's funeral in London used the VIP coaches to prevent unnecessary congestion.   On Monday, Facebook was flooded with images of some African Heads of State and representatives in a coach, contrasted by photos of US President Joe...

SPECIAL Assistant to the President for Politics Levy Ngoma says there's no handler at State House who is President Hakainde Hichilema’s praise singer, adding that most, if not all advice, is actually taken into consideration by the Head of State. And Ngoma says he is ensuring that he advises President Hichilema correctly on politics for...

A BANKER at Atlas Mara Limited has told the Lusaka Magistrates' Court that over K70 million was transferred from the Ministry of Finance into former defence minister Geoffrey Bwalya Mwamba's bank account which was held at the bank between 2020 and 2021. Idah Kaluba Chilumbu was testifying in a matter in which Mwamba is facing...

TRANSPORT and Logistics Minister Frank Tayali has urged the newly appointed Zambia Airports Corporation Limited Board to attain financial sustainability, saying it doesn't make economic sense to pay dividends while running on over drafts from Zanaco. Speaking when he unveiled the ZACL Board, Tuesday, Tayali said the Board should ensure that the disposal of assets,...

COPPERBELT Minister Elisha Matambo says PF members jump like headless chickens whenever someone mentions police because the guilty are always afraid.   On Monday, acting PF president Given Lubinda accused Matambo of instructing police to arrest Kabushi PF aspiring candidate Bowman Lusambo.  Commenting on this in an interview, Matambo described Lubinda's allegations as nonsense. "I...