CAMCO Equipment (Z) Limited has sued Kabushi PF member of parliament Bowman Lusambo demanding immediate payment of K66,844.50, being the balance owed to the company after purchasing a generator. The company has stated that Lusambo collected the generator and donated it to one of the clinics on the Copperbelt, before paying for it in full....

ENERGY Minister Peter Kapala has revealed that government will extend and maintain the current subsidies on petroleum products which were supposed to come to an end on June 30, for three months, up to September 30. And Kapala says government's decisions to increase fuel prices in the last few months have not been easy ones,...

THE Lusaka Magistrates' Court has restrained a Chinese national from continuing to beat and threatening to kill his lover, whom he lives and shares a child with. Magistrate Mbuywana Sinvula has also ordered Huang Yawen to vacate the house where the couple lives in Kalundu township, until such a period when the case would be...

THE Road Development Agency (RDA) has selected entities to bid for the construction of the Lusaka Ndola Dual carriageway, among them companies owned by friends of the ruling UPND. According to a “Notice of Shortlist” dated June 15, 2022 and signed by RDA acting director for procurement Eng. Chilufya Mwenya, Graduare Property Development Limited, a...

POLICE in Lusaka have apprehended two suspects for being in possession of suspected human skull and teeth. In a statement, Thursday, Police spokesperson Rae Hamoonga said Voster Kapila, 45 and Victor Nyambe, 41, were apprehended in Meanwood Ndeke after Police received information that the two had a human skull which was being kept behind their...

ENVIRONMENTALIST William Harrington has challenged Lands and Natural Resources Minister Elijah Muchima to a live public debate on his recent statement that his Ministry is undertaking yet another study on the environmental impact of the Forest 27 housing development. In a statement, Harrington described the statement as unacceptable, saying if government was unwilling to carry...

ZAMBIA'S former Ambassador to Ethiopia Emmanuel Mwamba will be required to issue a public apology to University of Zambia lecturer Dr Sishuwa Sishuwa and to pay him K30,000 nominal damages for defamation, following a consent judgement entered by the duo. And Dr Sishuwa says he intends to donate the money to a charity or orphanage...

VETERAN politician Vernon Mwaanga says Africa's endless wars are destructive to its infrastructure and retard general development, observing that it's like rebuilding one's house endless times instead of building new ones. In a statement, Tuesday, Mwaanga said conflicts did not do Africa any favours, noting that one of the biggest impacts of the endless wars...

THE Lusaka High Court has sentenced a Lusaka resident who caused the death of former Kabwata UPND MP Levy Mkandawire through dangerous driving in November last year to 12 months simple imprisonment. But the deceased's family has lamented that the sentence is too lenient considering the gravity of the accident. High Court Judge Ruth Chibbabbuka...

SPEAKER of the National Assembly Nelly Mutti has reprimanded acting PF president Given Lubinda, in absentia, for issuing contemptuous remarks against her during a press conference in December last year. Lubinda is alleged to have said that "a social studies pupil is more informed than the current Speaker of the House". In her ruling, Speaker...