ELECTORAL Commission of Zambia (ECZ) chief electoral officer Patrick Nshindano says the commission has registered 1,527 voters for the month of June. Addressing the media, Friday, Nshindano said the breakdown by gender was 1, 043 males, against 484 females. "The total new registration for the month of June is 1, 527. Total composition in terms...

GOVERNMENT says it will publish names of successful candidates in the recruitment exercise of 11, 276 health workers and 30, 000 teachers on 15th and 22nd July, respectively. According to a joint statement issued by the Civil Service Commission and Teaching Service Commission, the commissions said it had completed phase one and two of the...

SPEAKER of the National Assembly Nelly Mutti has expressed her displeasure at Ministers' continued trend of absconding parliamentary proceedings. After business resumed, Thursday, Minister of Local Government and Rural Development Minister was not yet in the House when it was his time to be on the floor, which angered Speaker Mutti. "Is the House going...

VEDANTA Zambia Corporate Communications Director Masuzyo Ndhlovu says the way Zambia treats its investors has a significant bearing on how the outside world will view it. Speaking when he was featured on 5FM's Burning Issue programme, Thursday, Ndhlovu said issues to do with investors should not be politicised. "I like what the President said at...

THE Zambia Police Service has advised unemployed teachers and health workers who plan to hold a peaceful march today to desist from doing so. In a statement, Thursday, deputy Police Public Relations Officer Danny Mwale said conveners of the protest notified Police headquarters, which is a wrong office as it had no regulating officer. He...

FORMER Finance Minister Ng'andu Magande says if PF members do not have any solutions to offer with regards the debt crisis they created, they should just keep quiet. And Magande says it's unfair to attack someone who is trying to fix the country, emphasising that Zambia's current debt problems are unprecedented. In an interview, Magande...

ECONOMIST Noel Nkoma says the over US$3 billion investment pledges which Zambia has gotten this year can only be actualised if government remains committed to its budget pronouncements. Recently, Minister of Science and Technology Felix Mutati disclosed that Zambia had unprecedented business commitments exceeding US$3 billion this year alone. Commenting on this in an interview,...

FORMER Lands and Natural Resources minister Jean Kapata has been summoned to appear before the Joint Investigations Team (JIT) on July 6 for questioning. In an interview, JIT spokesperson Rae Hamoonga said details about why she has been summoned could only be revealed after conclusion of interviews. "I can confirm that Jean Kapata has been...

MINISTER of Science and Technology Felix Mutati says Zambia has business commitments exceeding US$3 billion this year alone. Speaking when he officially opened the AETFAT conference in Livingstone, Monday, Mutati said the development, which is record breaking, was as a result of Zambia being "back in business". "You have a government that is saying the...

UPND secretary general Batuke Imenda says the Patriotic Front is dead. In an interview, Imenda said UPND was still waiting for another party to emerge on the political scene because all the ones in the opposition at the moment were no competition. "PF is dead. You cannot hear of PF, totally, totally dead. When you...