ACCORDING to Ministry of Health Permanent Secretary in charge of technical services Professor Lackson Kasonka, the TFM contract was discreetly signed in former PS Dr George Magwende’s office, where only four people were present. Dr... […]

IN NOVEMBER, we published an editorial opinion in which we tried to demonstrate that load-shedding never ended. In that opinion, we brought out various text messages which Zesco sent to various customers explaining extended hours... […]

WHEN we heard the announcement from the government that load-shedding would resume, we remembered what Zesco said just a couple of weeks earlier when we confronted them with the fact that they had lied to... […]

LANDS and Natural Resources Minister Elijah Muchima says there is a need to de-gazette some of Zambia’s forests in order to accommodate the increasing population. Debating the Motion of Supply for his Ministry, Friday, Muchima... […]

LOCAL Government Minister Honourable Gary Nkombo says insinuations that President Hakainde Hichilema is using public funds to maintain Community House are demeaning and incorrect. Debating the 2023 budgetary allocation for the Ministry of Infrastructure, Housing,... […]

A FEW of our readers are wondering where this FQM saga which the UPND government is trying to dubiously settle has come from. They are wondering what alleged crimes the so-called FQM directors at KMP... […]

ON Tuesday, the Minister of Finance Honourable Situmbeko Musokotwane, Minister of Mines Honourable Paul Kabuswe, ZCCM-IH board chairman Dorika Banda and other top ranking government officials held a joint press conference to explain the deal... […]

FOR some time now, we have been told that the best way our government can succeed in turning around our country’s economy is by increasing mineral production from the current 850,000 tonnes per year in... […]

TO understand what is going on between the UPND government and a mine investor called First Quantum Minerals (FQM), it is important to fetch the background. When we go back to see what has been... […]

NEWS about the government’s decision to surrender shareholding right in Kansanshi Copper Mines to First Quantum Minerals (FQM) has shocked experts in the sector. Many are asking what could have motivated this decision, considering that... […]