By KAIKO NAMUSA – GOVERNMENT has mobilised a grant of K1.8 billion (US$355 million) to improve water supply, sanitation and drainage systems in Lusaka, President Michael Sata has said. The funds have been organised through...

By KAIKO NAMUSA – FOREIGN Affairs Minister Wilbur Simuusa has told Parliament that Zambia is highly recognised as a champion of peace and security and has great influence around the continent. Mr Simuusa was responding...

By KAIKO NAMUSA and PERPETUAL SICHIKWENKWE – GOVERNMENT and the legal fraternity in Zambia have mourned the demise of eminent lawyer-cum-business executive Willa Mung’omba, who died in South Africa yesterday after an illness. Mr Mung’omba,...

By NORMA SIAME – KASAMA Central Member of Parliament Geoffrey Mwamba, popularly as GBM, has been expelled from the ruling Patriotic Front (PF). The expulsion of the former Minister of Defence is, however, subject to...

By XAVIER MANCHISHI – TWO senior managers at Lusaka City Council (LCC) are on the run after being implicated in financial impropriety involving an undisclosed amount of money. Lusaka Mayor Daniel Chisenga said the two,...

By CLEVER ZULU – CHIEF Government spokesperson Mwansa Kapeya has described as regrettable and retrogressive, a statement by Council of Churches in Zambia (CCZ) general secretary, Susanne Matale that there is no logic and value...

By CHUSA SICHONE – UNIP president Tilyenji Kaunda has called on political parties taking part in the Katuba parliamentary by-election to uphold honesty and to make reasonable campaign promises to the electorate. Speaking in an...

By MAIMBOLWA  MULIKELELA – GOVERNMENT has launched the 2011 Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) reconciliation report with mining revenue hitting K7.72 billion due to the tax arrears that were due in 2008. And copper production...

By NAKUBIANA MUMBUNA – PRESIDENT Michael Sata has dispelled speculations that he is sick following recent claims by some sections of the social media that he was not in good health. Mr Sata said when...

By MUNAMBEZA MUWANEI – HIGH teenage pregnancy rates have hit Ndola High schools with Chifubu topping the list at 87 pregnancies recorded last year. A survey conducted in different schools in Ndola also shows that...