I’ve not seen evidence of cancer patients being taken to Tanzania – Chitalu
FORMER Minister of Health Dr Chitalu Chilufya has urged government to reinstate the Health Promotion Directorate at the Ministry of Health because making it a unit dilutes its effectiveness. And Dr Chilufya says he has not seen any evidence of cancer patients going to Tanzania as government promised and that he has only heard of…...
Mineworkers’ union leaders in near punch-up
THERE was confusion and a near punch-up among eight mineworkers’ unions at Kitwe’s garden court hotel yesterday morning after five of the unions accused the other three of hypocrisy and working in isolation. Miners and Allied Workers Union (MAWU) president Kelvin Namunji and four other unions had just finished their press briefing when Mineworkers’ Union…...
ATI is a sham, UPND was forced to enact it as a debt restructuring condition – Sangwa
CONSTITUTIONAL Lawyer John Sangwa says the recently enacted Access to Information is a sham and it will not serve its purpose. And Sangwa says it is crazy that Zambia only has 100 judges to service 20 million citizens, arguing that this ratio has contributed to the broken down judicial system. Meanwhile, Sangwa has wondered why…...
I took UNZA computers to fix them, theft accused tells court
A 30-YEAR-OLD man accused of stealing 16 computers from the University of Zambia (UNZA) has told the Lusaka Magistrates’ Court that he only took the machines to fix and install new operating systems on them. Henric Chisenga is charged with one count of breaking into a building and committing a felony therein. Particulars of the…...
National prayers against cholera won’t take place – Bishop Mfula
ADVOCATES for the declaration of Zambia as a Christian Nation Chairperson Bishop Billy Mfula says the event to hold national prayers against the cholera pandemic will not take place this Friday because of the ban on large gatherings. However, the Bishop says some concerned believers will meet at the National House of Prayer to pray…...
Some citizens are reckless amid cholera outbreak, notes Nkombo
LOCAL Government and Rural Development Minister Gary Nkombo says the Ministerial Taskforce on Cholera will enforce the Statutory Instruments that have been invoked to deal with the disease with full force. And Community Development and Social Services Minister Doreen Mwamba says government will this week remove 400 street children from the streets. Speaking during the…...
HH hasn’t responded to my advice on governance – Canisius
PF member of the central committee Dr Canisius Banda says he has sent messages to President Hakainde Hichilema, advising him on governance, but the Head of State has not responded. Meanwhile, Dr Banda has wondered why Zambians are being asked to relocate to villages when Lusaka is a village when compared to Tokyo. Speaking when…...
Parley Committee reprimands Shiwang’andu Council for holding K3m 2022 funds
THE Committee on Local Government Accounts has reprimanded Shiwang’andu Town Council for holding on to K3,055,814, Constituency Development Funds (CDF) which should have been used as bursary for secondary school pupils in 2022. Appearing before the committee, Monday, Shiwang’andu council officials revealed that only 43 pupils were sponsored using the Bursary Secondary Schools Development Funds…....
I don’t have a girlfriend, Miles refutes Munir’s allegations
PF faction president Miles Sampa has denied allegations that he recruited his girlfriend as APNAC secretary, saying that he does not have a girlfriend but a wife. And Sampa says that he will consider relieving APNAC deputy chair Munir Zulu of his duties because he and others have been quiet on matters relating the fight…...
Don’t be too quick to defend yourselves from critics, TIZ urges govt
TRANSPARENCY International Zambia (TI-Z) Executive Director Maurice Nyambe says government should not be too quick to defend itself when stakeholders raise concerns on governance issues. And Commerce and Trade Minister Chipoka Mulenga says government will engage Swedish Ambassador to Zambia Johan Hallenborg in order to learn which state actors have solicited for any inducement which…...