POLICE say six suspected armed criminals attacked fuel attendants and security guards at a Total Energies filling station and got away with K155,000 cash, among other items. In a statement, Wednesday, police spokesperson Rae Hamoonga said the criminals pretended to be having some car trouble before they initiated their robbery operation. He said among the...

POLICE in Lusaka have launched a manhunt for some criminals who killed a 22-year-old man by pushing him from a moving vehicle as they attempted to steal his phone. According to a statement issued by police spokesperson Rae Hamoonga, Wednesday, Wilson Chanda, a mobile money vendor, lent his phone to some men before realising they...

ZAMBIA and Botswana have submitted a joint bid to host the 2027 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) tournament. The Confederation of African Football (CAF) is set to make the announcement for the hosts of the 2025 and 2027 AFCON finals. Southern Africa last hosted an AFCON in 2013 when South Africa took advantage of Libya...

THE INDEPENDENT Broadcasting Authority (IBA) has issued UNZA Radio a two-day ultimatum within which to put adequate measures in place to prevent guests from using what it terms as derogatory language on air. On September 23, 2023, UNZA Radio aired a live programme where its guest charged that the government communications system was moribund and...

SPEAKER of the National Assembly Nelly Mutti has announced that the annual declaration of assets, liabilities and income law for someone serving as Speaker, Deputy Speaker or Minister has been extended to all MPs. In her announcement yesterday, Speaker Mutti guided all members of parliament to fill in the declaration forms and submit them to...

FOREIGN Affairs and International Cooperation Minister Stanley Kakubo says there is need for international financial institutions to scale up concessional financing to least developed countries. And Kakubo says government is deeply committed to stabilise the exchange rate of the local currency against major currencies. Addressing the general debate of the 78th session of the United...

EDUCATION Minister Douglas Syakalima has disclosed that the Examinations Council of Zambia (ECZ) has nullified results for 1,094 G9 External and GCE candidates for examination malpractices. And Syakalima says out of the 135,246 candidates who sat for the GCE examinations, 109, 355 candidates passed in at least one subject while 25,821 candidates failed all subjects...

MISA Zambia has congratulated Cornelius Mweetwa on his appointment as Information and Media Minister and has urged him to accelerate the enactment of the access to information law. The Media Institute of Southern Africa has further appealed to the Ministry to consider implementing mechanisms that will reduce the cost of doing business for media houses...