We’ll bring Drogba, Okocha for African Legends match – Kings of Africa
KINGS of Africa has revealed that Didier Drogba and Jay Jay Okocha will headline the African Legends team to face Zambia in three months’ time following the recent success of the FC Barcelona Legends exhibition match. And Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Sport Kangwa Chileshe says the government is happy that the 2012 AFCON…...
Kangwa outlines govt’s plans to renovate Heroes, Levy Mwanawasa stadia
GOVERNMENT says it is working overtime to ensure National Heroes Stadium in Lusaka is re-certified by CAF to host international matches as soon as possible. Speaking when he addressed the media yesterday, Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Sport Kangwa Chileshe said rehabilitation works at Heroes Stadium would commence soon. Chileshe said the state of…...
We should qualify for AFCON at home – Chama
CHIPOLOPOLO midfielder Clatous Chama says teamwork and the desire to earn qualification on home soil will be key when the team takes on Ivory Coast on June 17 at the Levy Mwanawasa Stadium in Ndola in the upcoming Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) qualifiers. And Defender Frank Musonda has urged his fellow teammates not to…...
There’s no change, LEAs still not independent – Brebner
GOVERNANCE activist Brebner Changala says the change Zambians wanted when they ushered the UPND into office has still not happened. Changala argues that law enforcement agencies in the country are still not independent from political interference. State House Chief Communications Specialist Clayson Hamasaka recently said the PF had a “hangover” thinking that government gave directives…...
Witness lists properties owned by Lungu’s former economic advisor
A WITNESS has narrated to the Economic and Financial Crimes Court how he was assigned to evaluate various properties belonging to former president Edgar Lungu’s economic advisor Hibeene Mwiinga. Paul Moyo, 45, a senior evaluation and property management officer, told the court that two properties located in Salama Park are vested in Mwiinga’s name while…...
There’s no political party without corrupt elements
SOCIALIST Party leader Fred M’membe says his party has some corrupt members who will be in prison by December 2026 once they win the next general elections. During a political programme on Prime TV, Dr M’membe said the fight against corruption needs to start from within the ruling party, and that the Socialist Party would…...
We’re paying out 70,000 claims per day – NAPSA
THE National Pension Scheme Authority (NAPSA) has paid out over K6 billion to more than 230,000 claimants as at Monday this week since the process commenced in April this year. And the authority says it is currently making payments to over 70,000 claimants per day. Giving an update on the partial pension withdrawal programme in…...
Let’s reverse trend of people suffering from acute food insecurity in Africa – HH
PRESIDENT Hakainde Hichilema says there is a need for governments on the African continent to reverse the trend of people suffering from acute food insecurity. In a speech read on his behalf by Minister of Finance and National Planning Dr Situmbeko Musokotwane at the Africa Agricultural Policy Leadership Dialogue, Thursday, President Hichilema said Zambia had…...
Surge in HIV infections among children worries Masebo: “Us we used to learn abstinence ili che”
HEALTH Minister Sylvia Masebo says the country recorded 33,000 new HIV infections in 2022 and it’s children who are mostly infected. And Masebo says she is 60 years old and HIV negative today because she grew up in an era where abstinence was preached everywhere. Meanwhile, the National Aids Council (NAC) says majority of STIs…...
UPND promised to reduce fuel prices to below K17 – M’membe
SOCIALIST Party (SP) leader Dr Fred M’membe says the UPND government should only celebrate the reduction of fuel prices when they drop below K17. But Energy Minister Peter Kapala says government is putting in place measures to ensure fuel prices drop even further. Commenting on the recent reduction of petrol by K3.14 per litre and…...
