Mood not okay for President General jokes – Mulusa
MOVEMENT for Democratic Change MDC secretary general Lucky Mulusa says the mood in the country is not okay to entertain President Edgar Lungu’s “President General” remarks, even if he was joking. In an interview, Mulusa, who is former special assistant to the president for project implementation and monitoring, said President Lungu was not being properly…...
MPs donating huge sums to their constituents have businesses – Wina
VICE-PRESIDENT Inonge Wina says people should not be shocked when some members of parliament donate huge sums of money to their constituents because they have been running businesses way before joining politics. And Vice-President Wina says the matter relating to President Edgar Lungu’s eligibility to contest in next year’s polls has been decided upon by…...
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Kalingalinga man assaults Anglican priest during service
POLICE in Lusaka have launched a manhunt for a Kalingalinga man who is alleged to have assaulted an Anglican Priest whilst he was preaching at the pulpit. It is alleged that the said man, only identified as Mwale, ordered the priest to stop preaching but when he resisted, he began dragging him and also punched…...
Govt questions StanChart’s move to shut 8 branches
STANDARD Chartered Bank Zambia Limited has announced the closure of eight branches across the country in a move designed to fully maximise its digital platforms. But Finance Minister Dr Bwalya Ng’andu says the Bank of Zambia (BoZ) has questioned the bank’s decision to close the branches in the country. In a notice, Standard Chartered Bank…...
Things Fall Apart!
Okonkwo’s father, Unoka, was a lazy, improvident man who was quite incapable of thinking about tomorrow. If any money came his way, and it seldom did, he immediately bought gourds of palm-wine, called round his neighbours and made merry. He always said that whenever he saw a dead man’s mouth, he saw the folly of…...
UNZA’s Sishuwa wins top international research prize
UNIVERSITY of Zambia (UNZA) lecturer Sishuwa Sishuwa has been named the winner of the 2020 Terence Ranger Prize, awarded annually by the UK-based top ranked Journal of Southern African Studies (JSAS) for the best article by a first-time author in the journal during the previous year. Dr Sishuwa becomes the first Zambian to win the […]
Vedanta wins appeal as Court stays KCM liquidation, refers matter to arbitration
The Court of Appeal has reversed the decision of the Lusaka High Court in which it refused to refer the Konkola Copper Mines dispute between Vedanta Resources and ZCCM-IH to arbitration. In this case, the Zambian government, through ZCCM-IH took over KCM and initiated the processes of liquidation, a move that vedanta contested in the…...
ECZ must enhance transparency on voter registration process in prisons – CCMG
CHRISTIAN Churches Monitoring Group (CCMG) says the Electoral Commission of Zambia (ECZ) should enhance the transparency of the voter registration exercise by immediately releasing the procedures that will guide and ensure accessibility to the correctional facilities where registration will take place. Speaking to journalists during a press briefing in Lusaka, Thursday, CCMG chairperson Fr Cleophas…...
CEC projects lower DRC sales volume in 2020
THE Copperbelt Energy Corporation Plc (CEC) says its sales volumes in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) this year should not be expected to hit more than the 25 per cent growth it achieved last year. And CEC says Konkola Copper Mines’ (KCM) continued failure to pay and honour its financial obligations towards its unpaid…...