FORMER Drug Enforcement Commission (DEC) Director General Alita Mbahwe says the commission will achieve very little if staff levels and office presence in districts remain low across the country. And Mbahwe says since she left office in 2020, she still receives phone calls from members of the public asking about the construction of a national...

PATRIOTIC Front information and publicity chairperson Raphael Nakacinda has challenged Minister of Health Sylvia Masebo and Finance Minister Situmbeko Musokotwane to explain the "US$100 million" deal for MoH infrastructure in Southern, Western and Northwestern provinces. Speaking to journalists at the Lusaka High Court, Wednesday, Nakacinda alleged that the deal was single sourced. "I have come...

FORMER South African president Thabo Mbeki says current leaders should emulate Zambia’s first republican president Dr Kenneth Kaunda by becoming true Pan Africanists. Speaking after laying wreaths on Dr Kaunda's grave at Embassy Park, Wednesday, Mbeki said Zambia’s first republican president played a central role in terms of the liberation struggle of South Africa. “President...

PRESIDENT Hakainde Hichilema says his administration does not want to use the corruption fight to victimise anyone, adding that government understands citizens' frustrations about the slow process and is determined to pick up speed. And President Hichilema says sometimes the media is slow, because even when government has given them a go-ahead for self-regulation, they...

UPND spokesperson Cornelius Mweetwa says the 50 percent reduction in the inflation rate since his party took office indicates progress. In an interview, Friday, Mweetwa argued that had the PF continued being in office, the cost of living would have been double what was currently obtaining. "In August last year, inflation was at 24.8 percent...

ECONOMIST Professor Oliver Saasa says when he asked an IMF representative during a recent visit if there was something which Zambia was yet to do that might delay the programme, he was assured that government had ticked all boxes. In an interview, Tuesday, Prof Saasa said the recent visit by IMF deputy managing director Antoinette...

THE Drug Enforcement Commission (DEC) has arrested six people for trafficking in narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances. In a statement, Wednesday, DEC Public Relations Officer Mathias Kamanga said the Commission had arrested a 41-year-old man of Lusaka's Obama Area for trafficking in 6.4 Kilograms of heroin, which was concealed in packs of coffee creamer and...

VISITING Czech Republic deputy minister of Foreign Affairs Martin Talpa says he was impressed by President Hakainde Hichilema’s speech to the European Parliament because it focussed on the future. Meanwhile, Minister of Local Government and Rural Development Gary Nkombo says it is his hope that the visitation would open doors in all areas of human...

FORMER Finance Minister Ng'andu Magande says if PF members do not have any solutions to offer with regards the debt crisis they created, they should just keep quiet. And Magande says it's unfair to attack someone who is trying to fix the country, emphasising that Zambia's current debt problems are unprecedented. In an interview, Magande...

ECONOMIST Noel Nkoma says the over US$3 billion investment pledges which Zambia has gotten this year can only be actualised if government remains committed to its budget pronouncements. Recently, Minister of Science and Technology Felix Mutati disclosed that Zambia had unprecedented business commitments exceeding US$3 billion this year alone. Commenting on this in an interview,...