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The contentious National Dialogue Bill passed third reading Tuesday evening as the parliamentary session stretched into an overnight session to allow lawmakers exhaust their heated debates on the proposed legislation. Members of parliament stayed up

President Edgar Lungu says if the UPND wants, they can raise the winning threshold to 60 per cent plus one in 2021, and Zambians will still vote for him overwhelmingly. And President Lungu says he

UPND deputy secretary General Patrick Mucheleka says the opposition party is not discouraged by the loss of Kafue chairmanship, but will forge ahead despite the PF’s “underhand methods” of winning elections. And Mucheleka says the

Patriotic Front Secretary General Davies Mwila says PF will win the Roan and Bahati seats the same way it emerged victorious in Kafue, without any violence or importation of cadres. And Mwila says UPND has

Economist Chibamba Kanyama says Zambia is not doing enough in terms of reducing arrears and debt will keep on rising until government starts clearing the principle amounts in 2022. In an interview, Kanyama said Zambia’s

University of Zambia Lecturers and Researchers Union (UNZALARU) president Dr Evans Lampi says there is lack of leadership in the Patriotic Front government when it comes to addressing challenges facing the institution. And UNZALARU general

Copperbelt University Academics Union (CBUAU) general secretary Willie Ngosa has appealed to President Edgar Lungu to sack his Higher Education Minister Professor Nkandu Luo for failing to manage the higher education sector. Reacting to Prof

Rainbow Party general secretary Wynter Kabimba says the reasons being advanced by those rejecting the National Dialogue Bill are purely academic, explaining that none of them has raised any issues with the actual contents of

Muchinga MMD member of parliament Howard Kunda says it is painful to lose elections so the Patriotic Front must work hard in order to secure victory in the 2021 elections. Speaking during a campaign meeting

NDC leader Chishimba Kambwili has insisted that Presidential Affairs Minister Freedom Sikazwe is President Edgar Lungu’s witchdoctor who only gets paid for laughing to appease the Head of State. And Kambwili has described President Lungu