By MAIMBOLWA MULIKELELA-ZAMBIA’S Official Creditor Committee (OCC) is expected to agree on comparable terms that will support the country’s broader goal of fiscal sustainability.This follows the subsequent provision of financing assurances by the OCC last...

By DOROTHY CHISI –THE National Savings and Credit Bank (NATSAVE) and the National Health Insurance Management Authority (NHIMA) have implemented the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) aimed at providing health insurance cover to all citizens,...

By CHATULA KANGALI-THE early closure of timber selling by the Zambia Forest and Forestry Industries Corporation (ZAFFICO) will worsen the challenges that the sector is already facing.Zambia Forest and Sawmillers Association indicated that the timber...

By CHATULA KANGALI-UNIFIED Chemicals Zambia Limited has proposed to set up a soya processing company in Kapiri Mposhi District, Central Province at the cost of US$5 million.The company states that the establishment factory will help...

By MAIMBOLWA MULIKELELA-THE Government says it is setting up a mining commission to regulate and monitor the mining industry as it gears up to focus more on economic growth, job creation and utilising business opportunities.Mines...

By MAPULANGA LIBINGAWITH cases of unnatural offences surfacing, a 21-year-old barber of Ndola tried for sodomising a 16-year-old boy has been jailed for 25 years with hard labour.“These kinds of people are supposed to be...

By PERPETUAL SICHIKWENKWE-MORE than K70 million was transferred from the ministry of Finance and National Planning to former Defence minister Geoffrey Mwamba’s Atlas Mara bank account, a witness has testified in court. Read more...

By JOSEPH BANDA-AT the ongoing United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New York, President Hakainde Hichilema has continued with side meetings, engaging various potential investment partners.On Monday evening he met the United States Development Finance...

By CHUSA SICHONE-HOME Affairs and Internal Security Minister Jack Mwiimbu has warned that people engaging in homosexuality and sodomy in Zambia risk being arrested and prosecuted because such acts are criminal offences under the Penal...

By JOSEPH BANDA-CHIKONDI Foundation chairperson John Mambo has accused Lusaka Archdiocese Bishop Alick Banda of issuing a veiled political statement on the issue of homosexuality.Bishop Mambo said he read the statement issued by Archbishop Banda...