FORMER UPND spokesperson Charles Kakoma says the comments he used to make against the ruling party when he was in the opposition were not his personal views but that of UPND. And Kakoma has expressed gratitude over his appointment as member of the Patriotic Front Central Committee despite joining the party less than a month...

HEALTH Minister Dr Jonas Chanda has cautioned that the COVID-19 vaccine is not a “silver bullet” that can eliminate the pandemic. And Dr Chanda says the country has in the last 24 hours recorded 35 new COVID-19 cases with one death. In a statement, Monday, Dr Chanda emphasised that all the COVID-19 vaccines brought in...

THE Zambia Medicines Regulatory Authority (ZAMRA) and Zambia Medicines and Medical Supplies Agency (ZMMSA) have denied exposing citizens to substandard medicines and medical supplies through failure to perform their statutory duties. ZAMRA and ZMMSA have further denied the claims by Chapter One Foundation Limited that they failed or neglected to ensure that the public was...

PARLIAMENT has launched the first edition of the Parliamentary Publication on Members of the Legislative Council and Members of Parliament, 1924 to 2021. Speaking during the launch, Speaker of the National Assembly, Dr Patrick Matibini said the document contained information of members of Legislative Council who served from 1924 to 1964 and MPs who had...

A POLICE officer has testified that suspected UPND cadres were apprehended after refusing to disperse as they were found to be behaving in a disorderly manner by throwing stones at police officers and disturbing the flow of traffic. The officer was testifying in a matter in which nine UPND sympathisers are charged with idle and...

PF Lusaka Province chairman Kennedy Kamba says the PF will not allow Lusaka lawyer Kelvin Bwalya Fube’s ‘rantings’ to derail the government from taking development to the people. On Friday, KBF said during a press briefing that he had opted not to lodge his application to stand as President of the party because the process...

FOREIGN Affairs Minister Joe Malanji says it has become a marketable lie to suggest that people in government are thieves. And Malanji says he has raised K600,000 for markets in Solwezi. Speaking when he met marketers in Solwezi Monday, Malanji emphasized that his company could do business with entities in the Middle East. “Don't be...

PF deputy national chairperson Davies Chama says the newly launched UPND manifesto will not take the opposition party leader, Hakainde Hichilema, to State House. And Chama has charged that Hichilema is hallucinating by accusing ‘innocent’ people of stealing public money. Commenting on the recently launched UPND manifesto for 2021 to 2026, Chama said a manifesto...

PF chairperson for Legal Affairs, Brian Mundubile says it would be unattractive for a bigwig like Charles Kakoma to defect to PF if the party prevented him from being a member of the Central Committee. He explained that the former UPND spokesperson Charles Kakoma qualified to be elected as member of the Central Committee because...