NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC: FIRST QUANTUM MINERALS LIMITED STATEMENT ON REMEDIATION OF CLOSED BWANA MKUBWA MINE SITE First Quantum Minerals Limited (“FQM”), the ultimate holding company of Kansanshi Mine Plc, Kalumbila Minerals Limited and First Quantum Minerals Operations Limited wishes to inform the public that it has ceased mining operations at Bwana Mkubwa Mine in...

NO normal person would ditch the opposition to join the PF; those doing so are just hungry Hyenas looking out for their bellies, says former North Western Province minister Steven Masumba. And Masumba says a country without food brings about a lot of embarrassment through various mischiefs including prostitution of various forms. Masumba recently formally...

EMMANUEL Mbambiko, a professional accountant based in Kitwe, says Zambia should not be preoccupied with the production of nshima, while the USA and China develop more appetite for consumption of minerals like copper. Mbambiko is the Kitwe Chamber of Commerce vice-president in charge of commerce. He has advised the government of Zambia to incentivise mines...

ALL People’s Congress Party Nason Msoni says he is anxious for the dissolution of Parliament to finally see the incompetent pair of President Edgar Lungu and Vice-president Inonge Wina go separate ways. And Msoni says Zambia now feels like a country under liquidation. In an interview, Msoni said Zambia, with President Lungu in office, is...

PARTY of National Unity and Progress (PNUP) president Highvie Hamududu fears that if money remains a basis upon which Zambians elect people to public office, then very soon a drug dealer will become the President of the country. Hamududu also says one cannot be participating in elections with a very unclear manifesto, or even without...

A 37-year-old Zambian truck driver has sustained life threatening wounds after being shot at by unidentified people at Beit bridge border in South Africa. According to a statement issued by first secretary for press at the Zambia High Commission in South Africa Naomi Nyawali, Wednesday, Stephen Nansowa was attacked and shot at by suspected criminals...

FORMER Secretary to the Cabinet and head of the Zambia Atomic Energy Agency Roland Msiska has passed away. Confirming the development in a statement, Secretary to the Cabinet Dr Simon Miti disclosed that Dr Msiska passed away in Lusaka. "Government regrets to announce the death of Dr Roland Msiska, former secretary to the cabinet, who...

A 37-YEAR-OLD woman of Lusaka's Chalala area has been arrested for pouring hot water on a 26-year-old woman with whom her husband has a child. According to a statement from police spokesperson Esther Mwaata Katongo, Thursday, Febby Chali had gone to demand child support from her lover's house only to be met by his wife,...

ABSA Group Limited has announced the passing of its executive director and deputy chief executive Peter Matlare, who succumbed to COVID-19-related complications. In a statement, Monday, Absa stated that the seasoned corporate executive, who was responsible for Absa’s regional operations on the continent outside of South Africa, passed away on March 7, 2021, due to...

A Mongu-based 24-year-old police officer has committed suicide after shooting his girlfriend in the head and her father in his abdomen and both his legs. According to a statement from police spokesperson Esther Mwaata Katongo, the motive of the shooting has not yet been established and both victims are in a critical condition. "A Police...