VETERAN politician Vernon Mwaanga says it is sad that a number of privileged politicians are using their ill-gotten wealth to mock citizens by giving them cash handouts and food. And Mwaanga says people have dropped their guard against COVID-19 at a critical time when the pandemic fatigue sets in everywhere. In a statement, Sunday, Mwaanga...

THE Parliamentary Public Accounts Committee (PAC) on Thursday heard how 539 officers from the Ministries of Home Affairs and Livestock and Fisheries were sitting on the Central Province payroll rather than their respective Ministries. Meanwhile, there was a heated confrontation between Central Province Finance Director Mordsen Chibuye and an officer from the Accountant General’s Office...

PRESIDENT Edgar Lungu has warned that is citizens stop adhering to the Covid-19 public health guidelines, the predicted second wave of the pandemic will be devastating. Quoting President Lungu in a statement, Special Assistant to the President for Press and Public Relations Isaac Chipampe said the Head of State was concerned that while the second...

UNIVERSITY of Zambia (UNZA) lecturer Sishuwa Sishuwa has been named the winner of the 2020 Terence Ranger Prize, awarded annually by the UK-based top ranked Journal of Southern African Studies (JSAS) for the best article by a first-time author in the journal during the previous year. Dr Sishuwa becomes the first Zambian to win the...

THE Road Transport and Safety Agency (RTSA) has donated assorted medical equipment to Ndola Teaching Hospital as part of commemorating the 2020 World Day of Remembrance for road traffic victims. And the agency says it is projecting a reduction in the number of road traffic accidents by end of 2020 due to the countrywide law...

A NEWS Diggers Investigation has revealed that the Ministry of Health paid a Chinese company called Ganzhou Etone amounts exceeding US$1.5 million (approximately K31.3 million) for supply of Coronavirus test kits under a tender that was awarded to a different firm called Kingphar Company Ltd. The investigation has also revealed that companies that ‘competed’ and...

LUSAKA Province PF secretary Kennedy Kamba has directed all party district chairmen to be submitting weekly reports of all the party officials that have been captured in the ongoing voter registration exercise. In his letter dated November 11, 2020, Kamba stated that he wanted the full names, voter's number, NRC number, phone number, and district...

PATRIOTIC Front (PF) sympathizer Munir Zulu says some senior members of the ruling party’s Central Committee are praying that President Lungu is not eligible to stand in 2021. And Zulu says it remains a source of concern that some senior members of the Central Committee continue to sponsor confusion in the party. Meanwhile, Zulu says...

CHIFUBU PF member of parliament Frank Ng’ambi has asked the National Assembly to add his vote to the 105 MPs who voted for Bill 10, claiming that even if he supported the Bill, his vote did not count as the electronic system froze. But Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly Catherine Namugala could not immediately...

COUNCIL of Churches in Zambia (CCZ) secretary general Fr Emmanuel Chikoya says it is time Zambians moved on from the failed Bill 10 and transition into 2021 as a unified and peaceful country. And Fr Chikoya says people should draw lessons from the failure of Bill 10 that not everybody is available for sale and...