MINISTER of Finance and National Planning Dr Situmbeko Musokotwane has asked the country’s creditors to form a creditor committee to quickly evaluate the debt treatment request. On Thursday Parliament approved the K173 billion 2022 national budget. In a statement delivered during a virtual meeting with the bilateral creditors, Dr Musokotwane stated that a creditors committee...

PRESIDENT Hakainde Hichilema says his government will walk the talk in ensuring that commitments made are fulfilled. And President Hichilema says he has seen a lot of wastage in the country's way of running things and that his government is working on isolating how the wastage can be cut out. Speaking when he officiated at...

MINISTER of Health Sylvia Masebo has disclosed that Zambia will begin to administer COVID-19 booster vaccines on December 27 to people who received the primary vaccination. And Masebo has revealed that the country will begin to administer the Pfizer vaccine in children from 12 years upwards. Meanwhile, the country has in the last 24 hours...

THE Lusaka Magistrates' Court has committed Alick Kalengo, a businessman accused of causing the death of Kabwata UPND MP Levy Mkandawire to the High Court for trial This is a matter in which Kalengo, 51, is charged with causing death by dangerous driving. It is alleged that on November 18, 2021 in Lusaka, Kalengo caused...

KABUSHI PF member of parliament Bowman Lusambo’s alleged ‘baby mama’ has agreed to have a DNA test conducted on all her four children to prove that he is the father. This is a matter in which Lusambo has sued Matongo Cowham in the Lusaka High Court seeking damages for libel, an apology and an order...

LUSAKA businessman Valden Findlay has denied owing the Development Bank of Zambia (DBZ) over US$1.9 million and being in default, saying his company, Chrismar Hotel Limited, has been making payments in relation to the loan facility. Findlay has submitted that Chrismar Hotel Limited is not in breach of the long term loan facility entered into...

THE matter in which Raphael Nakacinda is accused of defaming President Hakainde Hichilema yesterday failed to take off as the docket was not before court. And the state has entered a nolle prosequi in a matter in which Chilufya Tayali is charged with defamation of former president Edgar Lungu. Meanwhile, the Lusaka Magistrates' Court has...

EIGHT PF members of parliament have recommenced, in the Constitutional Court, a matter in which they are challenging the Speaker’s decision to suspend them from parliament after the nullification of their seats despite them having appealed. In this matter, Mutotwe Kafwaya, Lukas Simumba, Kalalwe Mukosa, Bowman Lusambo, Taulo Mbewe, Christopher Chibuye, Joseph Malanji, Allen Banda...

LOCAL Government Minister Gary Nkombo says government will demolish all illegal establishments in the country even if it works against their political popularity. Speaking at the launch of the urban planning and housing observatory symposium, Monday, Nkombo said government would go to the extremes where necessary. “So we are determined and we are going to...

THE Lusaka High Court has sentenced a bricklayer of Lusaka’s Chamba Valley area to 50 years imprisonment with hard labour for sexually abusing three girls and attempting to defile another. Joseph Winga, 35, was convicted by the Lusaka Magistrates' Court earlier this year and committed to the High Court for sentencing. Lusaka Magistrate Faides Hamaundu...