FAZ president Andrew Kamanga has implored the Under-23 men's national team to finish off the job this Saturday when they clash with Sierra Leone in the return leg of the 2023 U-23 AFCON qualifiers at the Heroes stadium. Meanwhile, Kamanga said the association has laid out a coherent preparatory programme that will see the Copper...

FINANCE and National Planning Minister Dr Situmbeko Musokotwane says he is hopeful that there will be harmony at the National Road Fund Agency following the dissolution of the board. And Dr Musokotwane has urged parastatal boards to take their work seriously, saying they are government's eyes. Earlier this month, Dr Musokotwane dissolved the board of...

KABUSHI UPND member of parliament Bernard Kanengo says he would have still won the seat even if Bowman Lusambo had participated in the race. But former PF secretary general Davies Mwila says his party will petition the recently held Kabushi and Kwacha by-elections today. Kanengo won the Kabushi seat with 6,553 votes in the recently...

THE latest Auditor General’s Report on accounts of the republic has revealed that the Ministry of Defence entered into a contract with Exoline Investments Limited of Lusaka to supply 50 Toyota Corolla and 25 Lexus brand new vehicles for the Zambia Army at a contract sum of $4,375,000 using irregular direct bidding. And the report...

PRESIDENT Hakainde Hichilema says it's now time to focus on developing the country because political independence, peace and stability have been achieved. And President Hichilema yesterday took some time to recognise former president Edgar Lungu, who did not physically attend the Independence Day celebrations at State House, saying this was also his day. Meanwhile, Namibian...

LEADER of the Opposition in Parliament Brian Mundubile says Zambians overrated President Hakainde Hichilema going by the way he is governing the country. And Mundubile has wondered whether there is a shortage of human resource under UPND that the President can appoint Gilbert Phiri as DPP, barely a few months after he was taken to...

AIRTEL Zambia has disclosed that it has been receiving approximately 5,000 complaints from customers about the internet and data depletion on a monthly basis. And Airtel says although its business has not been affected, the company is not happy when its customers are complaining. Commenting on the recent social media backlash about the quick depletion...

FORMER presidential press aide Amos Chanda says Drug Enforcement Commission (DEC) officers vehemently refused to grant him bond saying their boss, Mary Chirwa, gave them strict instructions not to do that. DEC arrested Chanda on Thursday for allegedly stealing and burning a court record of the RTSA speed camera corruption case. DEC Public Relations Officer...

COUNCIL of Churches in Zambia (CCZ) general secretary Fr Emmanuel Chikoya says government should ensure that security wings are well-equipped to enable them to handle complex cases like kidnapping. In an interview, Dr Chikoya also urged security wings to be consistent in the discharge of their duties, arguing that at certain times, they appeared not...

LABOUR and Social Security Minister Brenda Tambatamba says NAPSA members will only be allowed to partially access their pension benefits once before retirement, and this is 20 percent of the contributions. In an interview, Tambatamba explained that members would only be eligible to access 20 percent of their benefits after contributing for five years. She...