POLICE in Lusaka have apprehended a 22-year-old man of Garden House in connection with murder and aggravated robbery. According to a statement issued by police spokesperson Esther Mwaata Katongo, Sunday, police retrieved a burnt body of a 52-year-old Chinese national from the crime scene. Katongo narrated that initially, police received a report of a fire...

RAINBOW party general secretary Wynter Kabaimba says the PF cadres who have been storming radio stations to disrupt UPND leader Hakainde Hichilema’s programmes are most likely sponsored by senior party officials. And Kabimba has asked the church to foster dialogue between political parties in order to promote respect for divergent views. In an interview, Kabimba...

GENERAL Education Minister David Mabumba says government will only make an assessment on when pupils in non-examination classes could return to school after analysing the situation when exam classes resume this June. And Mabumba says he will travel to Muchinga Province to assess the impact of COVID-19, after which he will advise President Edgar Lungu...

WORKERS at Chiengi Constituency office in Luapula discovered faeces smeared on the office door while some of it heaped by the doorway as they reported for duty on Tuesday morning. Chiengi member of parliament Given Katuta has, however, charged that Chief Puta must be responsible for this since he has openly declared that he doesn’t...

THE United Party for National Development (UPND) says the PF is working hard to buy off councillors in rural areas because it knows that it has lost the urban population due to the economic meltdown. In a statement, Wednesday, UPND chairman for the finance and economics committee Situmbeko Musokotwane observed that the PF was trying...

FORMER Secretary to the Cabinet Dr Sketchley Sacika says Zambia can still re-introduce the Leadership Code if it is serious about curbing rampant corruption in government circles. And Dr Sacika says the fight against corruption in the country has completely been watered down due to a breakdown in governance institutions like the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC),...

FORMER North-Western Province Minister Dawson Kafwaya has called on opposition councillors wishing to join the ruling PF to wait for the dissolution of councils and Parliament, saying unnecessary by-elections were costly. And Kafwaya has disagreed with Deputy Parliamentary Chief Whip Tutwa Ngulube, who recently suggested that UPND councillors had continued resigning because the opposition party...

CHIRUNDU UPND member of parliament Douglas Syakalima says Tourism and Arts Minister Ronald Chitotela should already consider himself out of politics if his condition for contesting next year’s election is President Edgar Lungu’s availability for the polls. When he featured on Muvi TV’s The Assignment programme, Sunday, Chitotela, who is also Pambashe PF member of...

FORMER Finance Minister Felix Mutati says the solution to Zambia’s debt crisis does not lie in deferment of debt service as suggested by the multi-laterals and the G-20, but a complete write-off of whatever the country owes. And Mutati has welcomed government’s decision to downsize the 2020 national budget following the drastic reduction in the...

FINANCE Minister Dr Bwalya Ng’andu says the International Monetary Fund (IMF) did not consider Zambia for the COVID-19 relief package because, according to their assessment, the country's debt position is unsustainable. And Dr Ng'andu says government has decided to downsize the 2020 national budget because Zambia's revenue has drastically reduced due to the COVID-19 pandemic....

GOVERNANCE activist Brebner Changala says it is unfair for Information and Broadcasting Services Minister Dora Siliya to accuse journalists of being unprofessional for questioning alleged corruption in government. In an interview, Changala condemned Siliya for warning journalists to desist from writing certain stories about corruption, urging her to emulate South African President Cyril Ramaphosa’s sense...

DEPUTY Parliamentary Chief Whip Tutwa Ngulube says UPND should blame the councillor exodus it is currently experiencing on its refusal to support Bill 10. In an interview, Ngulube argued that UPND’s support for Bill 10 could have blocked councillors from resigning, which would have also avoided unnecessary by-elections. “You see, that’s why we have always...

NATONAL Democratic Congress (NDC) president Chishimba Kambwili has charged that there are big names involved in the Mwinilunga gold scandal which been left out of the investigations and arrests. And Kambwili has asked government to be honest about Mopani because the mining firm has not abandoned plans to place its operations on care and maintenance,...

THE University of Zambia Professional Staff Union (UNZAPROSU) says threats by the UNZA management to discipline staff members for protesting against delayed salaries are aimed at intimidating workers. On Wednesday, UNZA Registrar Sitali Wamundila circulated a notice to all staff members in which he explained the challenges that the university was facing in raising funds...

MEDICAL expert Dr Aaron Mujajati has asked the Ministry of Health to give a better explanation for subjecting COVID-19 tests conducted in Nakonde to further validation when that was not done in other towns. In a Facebook posting, Monday afternoon, Dr Mujajati said it confused him to see COVID-19 cases drastically reduce to zero, Monday,...

FORMER UPND vice-president Dr Canisius Banda says people should begin adjusting to live with the novel Coronavirus just like they have adjusted to other diseases because, in his view, COVID-19 is here to stay. And Banda says much of Zambia is shielded from COVID-19 to some extent seeing that 50 per cent of the country’s...

THE German government has released a rapid response package worth K370 million to help Zambia in the fight against COVID-19 and to mitigate the pandemic’s impact on the country’s most vulnerable people. But the German government has demanded accountability on Covid donations, further urging Zambian authorities to actively address the “debt crisis” and to speed...

PF DEPUTY national mobilisation chairperson Geoffrey Mwamba says Hakainde Hichilema should not get excited when three of his Facebook followers call him Bally because social media will not secure him the presidency. And Mwamba says more UPND councillors are going to resign and join the PF because they have realized that their party leader is...

UPND president Hakainde Hichilema says Zambia needs visionary leadership that can think and plan ahead as well as distribute national resources equitably. And Hichilema, who was speaking to Radio Mano in Kasama via a live phone interview, Sunday evening, says his party has drawn a plan for the agricultural sector in which Northern Province will...

FORMER UPND vice-president Canisius Banda says any chief who promotes the interests of another ethnicity other than his or her own must be dethroned. And Banda says there is nothing wrong Paramount Chief Chitimukulu did by asking the people of Northern Province to emulate Tongas in the 2021 general election because that is the duty...

PEOPLE’S Alliance for Change (PAC) president Andyford Banda has condemned government for warning private schools against charging pupils for online lessons, saying businesses must be allowed to charge clients for their innovation. Last week, Ministry of General Education Permanent Secretary Jobbicks Kalumba asked private learning institutions to give parents of school-going children a break from...

PATRIOTIC Front member of the central committee Paul Moonga has defended Malole PF member of parliament Christopher Yaluma’s tribal remarks against the people of Southern Province, saying the lawmaker only said the facts of life as they are. Recently, Yaluma, who is also Commerce Minister, launched his re-election campaign at Mumba village in Malole constituency,...

A robber is battling for his life in the Chipata Central Hospital intensive care unit after being involved in a shooting incident with the police in Eastern Province. On Saturday afternoon, Police sealed off Chipata Central Hospital after a dramatic shooting incident in which three armed robbers exchanged gunfire along the hospital road with police...