FORMER Zambia Revenue Authority (ZRA) commissioner general Kingsley Chanda says ZRA workers do not have the capacity and skills required to audit mining companies. And Chanda says VAT refunds cannot work in a country where... […]

ENERGY Regulation Board (ERB) Chairperson Reynolds Bowa says the country has initiated a pilot project in Lusaka where fuel is blended with ethanol. Bowa however says that the quantity of ethanol currently being produced in... […]

TRANSPARENCY International Zambia (T-IZ) Executive Director Maurice Nyambe has urged the UPND to go back to the people and have an honest conversation with them on their failures, saying there’s a lot of discontent among... […]

SECRETARY to the Treasury Felix Nkulukusa says if the scale and magnitude of the prevailing drought is bigger than initially projected, the country may not only have challenges with food security but also electricity security.... […]

SPEAKER of the National Assembly Nelly Mutti has approved Petauke Independent member of parliament Emmanuel Jay Banda’s request to move a private members’ motion urging government to re-introduce subsidies on mealie meal. And Banda says... […]

KAMFINSA PF member of parliament Christopher Kang’ombe has wondered if Agriculture Minister Mtolo Phiri’s remarks that people should not demonise genetically modified products means that government plans to change the law on GMOs. On Tuesday,... […]

PRESIDENT Hakainde Hichilema says it’s important to say things as they are because numbers don’t lie. Earlier this month, President Hichilema’s predecessor, Edgar Lungu, criticised the UPND government for the state of the country’s economy,... […]

A 25-YEAR-OLD man of Kanyama has appeared before the Lusaka Magistrates’ Court and pleaded not guilty to charges of unnatural offences. Kelvin Mutale, a DJ and businessman, is facing four counts of unnatural offences Contrary... […]

INTERNATIONAL Growth Centre (IGC) director Sir Paul Collier says for the first time after 50 years in Zambia, there is a President who is ambitious for decisive change. And Sir Collier, who is also Professor... […]

VICE-President Mutale Nalumango says it will not be prudent to amend the Constitution purely for the purpose of increasing the number of constituencies. The Vice-President was responding to a question in the National Assembly, Wednesday,... […]