MTN-FAZ Super League side Green Eagles have become the first club to send their coach on administrative leave this season following a poor string of results with only six league games played. Eagles yesterday sent Aggrey Chiyangi and his second assistant Rotson Kilambe on 30 days of administrative leave. According to a statement released on...

INCUMBENT Chess Federation of Zambia (CFZ) vice president Leslie Chikuse says he is eying the top job to take the game of chess to the next level. A total of 20 candidates have successfully filed their nominations for various positions with Chikuse being the only candidate challenging incumbent CFZ president Mukubulo Chilufya for presidency. Speaking...

PRESIDENT Hakainde Hichilema's political advisor Levy Ngoma says former PF secretary general Davies Mwila could’ve been intoxicated when he said government has created serious problems for itself by reintroducing meal allowances. Yesterday, Mwila said government had created serious problems for itself by reintroducing meal allowances when there’s no money, projecting that students will be protesting...

CENTRE for Disease Control (CDC) country director Dr Andrew Auld says Zambia has fully vaccinated over 6.2 million eligible people, but 2.7 million remain unvaccinated and at risk. And Munali UPND member of parliament Mike Mposha says the battle against Covid-19 is not yet won. Speaking during the re-launch of the 2022 Covid-19 vaccination campaign...

TRANSPORT and Logistics Minister Frank Tayali says government is in talks with Congolese authorities to address attacks on Zambian truck drivers in that country. Due to attacks, Zambian truck drivers have avoided entry into that country, in protest, via the Mokambo border post in Mufulira since Monday. In an interview, Wednesday, Tayali assured that government...

MINISTER of Small and Medium Enterprises Elias Mubanga says no one has accessed any money from the K365 million allocated in the 2022 budget because his ministry was preoccupied with cleaning up CEEC in order to enhance accountability. In an interview, Wednesday, Mubanga said the Citizens Economic Empowerment Commission (CEEC) had been politicised by the...

ZAMBIA Statistics Agency Interim Statistician General Mulenga Musepa says the delay in paying protesting Kitwe census enumerators was due to their submission of wrong bank details. And Musepa says all the protesting enumerators were paid on Friday last week after correcting their Ecobank details. Meanwhile, Musepa says the agency has commenced payment of the 60...

JOSEPH Malanji and Bowman Lusambo have asked the Constitutional Court to join them to a matter in which Kabushi UPND aspiring candidate Bernard Kanengo is seeking an interpretation of whether the 21 days prescribed to hear matters of nominations can be stayed or extended. The two have argued that they are interested parties and should,...

MINISTER of Home Affairs and Internal Security Jack Mwiimbu says the Police worked tirelessly to pursue abduction cases, but what complicated having a breakthrough was that the abductors targeted people who were familiar to them. And Mwiimbu says one of the arrested criminals' remarks that police did nothing to rescue the 13 abducted girls was...

THE Drug Enforcement Commission (DEC), through its Anti-Money Laundering Investigations Unit, has arrested Lusaka businessman Bwalya Kalandanya and four others for money laundering activities involving over K6 million. The Commission has further arrested Lusaka lawyer Kelvin Fube Bwalya for Failure to report a suspicious transaction. In a statement, Wednesday, DEC Deputy Public Relations Officer Delight...