We recorded over 4,000 maternal deaths between 2017 and 2022 – Govt
GOVERNMENT has disclosed that the country recorded a total of 4,709 maternal deaths between 2017 and 2022. Acting Minister of Health Charles Milupi told the National Assembly, Tuesday, that bleeding was the leading cause of maternal deaths, followed by indirect causes such as malaria, HIV/AIDS, heart diseases, among others. “Based on the maternal perinatal death…...
Financial crisis hits KCM as contractors suspend operations over debt
SOME contracting companies at Konkola Copper Mines Plc, among them Master Mine Service (MMS), have suspended operations due to non-payment of their dues. According to correspondence seen by News Diggers, MMS has suspended its services over a US$13.3m debt, but has undertaken to continue undertaking dewatering operations up to next month at an agreed rate…...
Registrar’s directive for parties to hold convention within 60 days illegal – PF
THE Patriotic Front has described the Registrar of Societies’ directive to political parties to hold intra-party elections within 60 days to replace office bearers as illegal. The opposition party has further announced that its central committee will hold a meeting on October 21, 2023, to decide on a fresh date for the party’s extraordinary conference…....
Police explain delay in acting on Miles’ break-in case
POLICE Spokesperson Rae Hamoonga says officers have not acted on the break-in case involving Miles Sampa because they are waiting for the complainant, Raphael Nakacinda, to give a statement. Last month, the PF reported their Matero member of parliament to police for breaking into the party secretariat and allegedly causing malicious damage to property. But…...
Mutti’s award testimony of distinguished manner she’s steered Parley debates – NGOCC
THE NGOCC has congratulated Speaker of the National Assembly Nelly Mutti for scooping the Commonwealth Parliamentarian of the year award. Speaker Mutti was recently awarded as the Commonwealth Parliamentarian of the year 2023 at the just ended 66th Commonwealth Parliamentary Conference, in Accra, Ghana. In a statement, Wednesday, NGOCC Chairperson Grace Sinkamba said the Speaker’s…...
Don’t feel victimised when visited by law, Youth Minister warns indebted cooperatives
YOUTH, Sports and Arts Minister Elvis Nkandu says cooperatives that have failed to pay back the loans they acquired from government should not feel victimised when the law catches up with them. The Auditor General’s report revealed that out of the K29 million loans disbursed by the Ministry of Youth, Sport and Arts to youth…...
2 ex-ZRA customs officers get 3 years for corruption
THE Lusaka Magistrates’ Court has convicted and sentenced two former Zambia Revenue Authority (ZRA) Customs Officers to three years imprisonment for corrupt practices involving over K40,000. In a statement issued yesterday, ACC Head of Corporate Communications Timothy Moono said Caroline Mukelebai and Gilbert Mainza were arrested by the commission in 2015 and charged with Abuse…...
Govt is sleeping well because it has done necessary work to improve lives – Haimbe
JUSTICE Minister Mulambo Haimbe says the new dawn government is sleeping well because it has done the necessary work to improve citizens’ lives. And Haimbe says the State’s decision to enter into a consent judgement with former DPP Mutembo Nchito SC is not unusual, arguing that there is no need to expend the court’s or…...
Mwiimbu urges international organisations to employ more Zambians
HOME Affairs and Internal Security Minister Jack Jacob Mwiimbu has appealed to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and other international organisations to employ more Zambians to work for their organisations. In a statement issued by Office of the Commissioner for Refugees public relations officer Jimmy Chibuye, Wednesday, Mwiimbu lamented that Zambia had qualified…...
Kasanda’s wife in court for assaulting hubby’s lover
LUSAKA businessman Shadreck Kasanda’s wife Lauren Rhaphalle yesterday appeared before the Lusaka Magistrates’ Court and denied the charge of assaulting her husband’s alleged lover, Rumbidzai Chibanda. Rhaphalle is charged with one count of assault occasioning bodily harm. She is alleged to have on August 9, 2023, in Lusaka assaulted Chibanda, thereby occasioning her actual bodily…...
