By BRIAN HATYOKA – PATRIOTIC Front (PF) Secretary General Davies Chama has predicted that President Edgar Lungu will get more than 60 per cent of votes in the 2016 general elections. Mr Chama said President...

By MILDRED KATONGO and CHILA NAMAIKO – A THIRTY-THREE-YEAR-old Zambia Revenue Authority (ZRA) officer in Nakonde has died in a road traffic accident as he was returning from a Christmas party. Gilbert Phiri is believed...

By MILDRED KATONGO – GOVERNMENT says more than two million people across the country have benefitted from the social cash transfer (SCT) scheme. Community Development and Social Welfare Minister, Emerine Kabanshi said the Government was...

By REBECCA MUSHOTA – THE United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) has praised Zambia for its contribution to taking in and providing for refugees. UNHCR representative to the African Union (AU) and the Economic...

By JAMES KUNDA – GOVERNMENT has started refunding K5.25 billion in Value Added Tax (VAT) owed to 14 mining companies countrywide, Finance Deputy Minister Christopher Mvunga has said. Mr Mvunga said the refunds were being...

By MWIYA MUKUMBUTA – ZAMBIA Air Force (ZAF) deputy commander and chief of staff David Muma has praised President Edgar Lungu’s administration for enabling ZAF to operate effectively in providing peace and territorial integrity during...

By MWIYA MUKUMBUTA – TIME has come to build a country that embraces and enhances participation of the youth and the poor in the development process, Southern Province Permanent Secretary Sibanze Simuchoba has said. Mr...

By KENNEDY MUPESENI – CHICOL Estates, an integrated poultry farm in Lusaka’s Twin Palm area, has embarked on a thermal power plant feasibility study which will result in electricity generation from chicken droppings. Estate director...

By REBECCA MUSHOTA – ZESCO has refuted claims by some members of the public and online publications that a number of babies died at the University Teaching Hospital (UTH) after the countrywide blackout on Thursday...

By REBECCA MUSHOTA – JAPAN has invested in research to improve and stabilise Zambia’s energy sector, especially that the southern African country is key, Japanese Prime Minister Abe Shinzo’s special envoy Hisoshi Kikwanda has said....