PUBLIC Service Management Division Permanent Secretary Boniface Chimbwali says there is nothing illegal about the debt swap initiative, and that it doesn't require to be taken to Parliament for approval. And Chimbwali has called on other employers to emulate government by implementing the debt swap for their employees. Commenting on remarks by economist Professor Oliver...

ECONOMIST Professor Oliver Saasa has described government’s decision to implement the debt swap as illegal and irresponsible from a government that is stressed with a huge fiscal deficit. And Prof Saasa says the budget process has become an academic exercise because there is no correlation between what is approved by Parliament and government's expenditure pattern....

PF Secretary General Davies Mwila says he has been able to see flyover bridges under the PF leadership which he only saw in Dubai and China. And Mwila says UPND cannot win the elections because the party only has one stronghold whereas PF has nine. Speaking to party officials in Mandevu, Monday, Mwila said the...

THE Zambia Revenue Authority (ZRA) says some of the cases that were reported in the 2020 Financial Intelligence Centre (FIC) report have already been dealt with. And Action Aid Zambia demanded for the release of the 2020 FIC Trends report. In an interview, ZRA corporate communications manager Topsy Sikalinda said the Authority had a good...

ZESCO Limited senior corporate affairs manager Dr John Kunda says Zambians should be proud of the “insane” developments in power generation that the country has done. And Dr Kunda says power outages that some customers are experiencing are a result of maintenance works. Speaking on Hot FM's Breakfast Show, Thursday, Dr Kunda said Zesco had...

LUSAKA Province PF chairman Kennedy Kamba says the money spent on billboards across Zambia's capital was donated by business people who support the ruling party. And Kamba has insisted that the opinion polls which have predicted that President Edgar Lungu will emerge victorious in the upcoming election reflects what is on the political ground. Commenting...

BANKERS Association of Zambia (BAZ) says commercial banks will still be deducting loan repayments because existing terms and conditions under which the loans were contracted are still in force. In a statement, Thursday, BAZ president Leonard Mwanza said all loans contracted by public service workers through bilateral agreements with commercial banks and other financial institutions...

POLICE in Lusaka have arrested five suspects for proposing violence and brandishing offensive weapons in a video that has gone viral on social media. In the said video, the suspects were heard threatening violence on unknown individuals while stating that they were now the police because the police had failed to do their job. And...

TRANSPARENCY International Zambia (TI-Z) has noted that the Financial Intelligence Centre reports have depreciated in quality ever since the institution was publicly rebuked by the President following its release of the 2018 Trends Analysis report. And TI-Z has noted that the 2020 FIC report is not a Trends Analysis Report but merely an annual report....

SPECIAL Assistant to the President for Press and Public Relations Isaac Chipampe says President Edgar Lungu does not spend all his time reviewing an individual's performance, in reference to Inspector General of Police Kakoma Kanganja. Meanwhile, Alliance for Community Action executive director Laura Miti says the six-month contract that President Lungu gave Kanganja to regain...