Digital transformation won’t lead to job losses – HH
PRESIDENT Hakainde Hichilema says governments are not collecting enough revenue because of manual processes that promote corruption. And President Hichilema says advancing digitalisation in African countries will not lead to job losses. And former United Kingdom Prime Minister Tony Blair says African countries must be open minded about digital revolution and not let the happenings…...
We’ll receive normal to below normal rains in 2023/24 season – Nzovu
MINISTER of Green Economy Collins Nzovu says the country is expected to receive normal to below normal rains in the 2023/2024 rainfall season. Rendering a ministerial statement in the National Assembly, Thursday, Nzovu said the rainfall season is likely to start by October over the northern parts of North-western, Luapula and Northern provinces. “Madam Speaker,…...
59 former PF ministers who illegally stayed in office have repaid K3.4m- Musokotwane
FINANCE and National Planning Minister Dr Situmbeko Musokotwane says over K3.4 million has been paid back by 59 former PF cabinet, provincial and deputy ministers who illegally stayed in office after the dissolution of Parliament in 2016. And Dr Musokotwane has assured that the illegality of staying in office when one has to vacate will…...
D/Speaker chases Kafwaya for referring to Kakubo’s remarks as nonsense
THERE was commotion in the National Assembly when Minister of Foreign Affairs Stanley Kakubo was responding to questions arising from a Ministerial statement he rendered on the floor of the House regarding President Hakainde Hichilema’s recent trip to China. The fracas began when Kakubo threw a jab at the members on the left, saying the…...
There’s haphazard increase in prices of essential commodities because govt is broke – KBF
ZAMBIA Must Prosper leader Kelvin Fube Bwalya says has insisted that the UPND government lacks an economic plan and that is why it is haphazardly increasing the prices of essential goods and services to raise money. And Bwalya says he left the UPND Alliance because he saw that President Hakainde Hichilema’s economic agenda was only…...
Court grants SP youth secretary K50,000 bail
SOCIALIST Party national youth secretary Gabriel Banda has been granted K50,000 bail by the Lusaka Magistrates’ Court with two working sureties. Banda is charged with proposing violence or breaches of the law to assemblies Contrary to Section 91(a)(b)(c) of the Penal Code Chapter 87 of the laws of Zambia. It is alleged that Banda, on…...
Report isn’t doctored, audit queries have reduced because of govt pronouncements – AG
AUDITOR General Dr Ron Mwambwa says there is a reduction in audit queries in his report on the Accounts of the Republic for the Financial Year ended December 2022 because there was a clear pronouncement by government. And Dr Mwambwa has dismissed claims that the Ministry of Agriculture refused to avail audit documents to his…...
Having a big tummy means someone isn’t healthy – Masebo
HEALTH Minister Sylvia Masebo has encouraged members of parliament to emulate former president Edgar Lungu by jogging because it a good way of leading a healthy lifestyle. And Masebo says people with big tummies are not healthy. Masebo said this after Milenge member of parliament Gystave Chonde asked what age group had been affected by…...
We have ratio of 1 eye doctor to 400,000 people in Zambia – Expert
UNIVERSITY Teaching Hospital (UTH)’s Eye Hospital Senior Medical Superintendent Dr Zipporah Phiri says Zambia only has 50 eye doctors. Speaking during the Orbis Flying Eye Hospital (FEH) Project welcoming ceremony, Wednesday, Dr Phiri said the country had a ratio of one eye doctor to 400,000 people, which was below the World Health Organisation (WHO)’s minimum…...
Farmers in formal employment irregularly got inputs worth K15m – AG
THE Auditor General’s report on the Accounts of the Republic for the financial year ended December 31, 2022, has revealed that a total of 38,539 farmers in formal employment were irregularly included on the approved farmer beneficiary list and got inputs in amounts totalling K15,415,600. The report indicated that the 2022/2023 FISP Direct Input Supply…...
