INJURED Commonwealth and African 400m champion Muzala Samukonga says he is in pain but hopes for a miracle ahead of next month's World Championships. However, the sprinter says he cannot risk racing before he is completely healed. And Zambia Athletics (ZA) General Secretary Davison Mung’ambata revealed that it required about US$4700 to bring an American...

LEADER of the Opposition in Parliament Brian Mundubile says it's not necessary for all members of parliament to have a meeting with the President over CDF as there is a law governing its utilisation. Mundubile says the party doesn't want its members of parliament being abducted or arrested after such a meeting for simply asking...

CHIPOLOPOLO coach Avram Grant has tipped the women’s national team to play to their strengths and quality ahead of their opening fixture against Japan. During an interview with the FAZ media after yesterday’s evening training session for the Copper Queens, Grant urged the team to believe and fight for the badge. Grant said he was...

A LUSAKA woman has lodged a complaint against Nakonde PF member of parliament Luka Simumba in the Lusaka Magistrates' Court for child maintenance. Elizabeth Mwansa, of Lusaka's Woodlands Extention, has proposed that Simumba should be giving her K5,000 per month towards the maintenance of their 1-year-old child. In her affidavit in support of summons for...

ATTORNEY General Mulilo Kabesha says there is an improvement in terms of how the Financial Intelligence Centre (FIC) is conducting its work as it now has more tools for detecting suspicious transactions. Kabesha says this is why the centre is able to raise issues as contained in its 8th Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing 2022...

CHAPTER One Foundation and Bloggers of Zambia have dragged ZICTA to the Lusaka High Court, challenging its directive to mobile network operators to collect and process live facial photographs of consumers as a prerequisite to the registration of mobile network services. Last year, ZICTA directed Mobile Network Operators to ensure that all new SIM card...

BEFORE the Centre for Trade Policy and Development (CTPD) issued a statement commenting on the contents of the recently released Financial Intelligence Centre (FIC) money laundering Trends Report, we thought we were the only ones who observed that it lacked depth. It struck us that the Centre did not capture the most obvious cases which...

FINANCIAL Intelligence Centre (FIC) Acting Director General Liya Tembo says the centre has learnt that their job is not just to excite the public, so they are managing stakeholder feedback by "better packaging" their reports. Speaking on HOT FM's Beyond the Headlines programme, Thursday, Tembo said in the past, their reports were perceived to be...

THE women’s movement in Zambia has expressed concern over increased cases of sexual abuse against the girl child as evidenced by recent media reports and quarterly statistics by Zambia Police Victim Support Unit (VSU). In a joint statement yesterday, YWCA national president Patricia Mubanga and NGOCC chairperson Grace Sinkamba cited cases of a 14-year-old girl...

PRESIDENT Hakainde Hichilema has reiterated government's commitment to working with the private sector in a bid to reconstruct the country's economy. Speaking at State House when he hosted United Arab Emirates minister of state Sheikh Shakhboot Bin Nahyan Al Nahyan, Thursday, President Hichilema said the private sector played a key role in ensuring the country's...