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Chova Bicycle Festival Lights Up Chipata
Chipata lit up on Saturday with the traditional bicycle taxis race. Famed for its widespread bicycle population, Chipata has moved to cash in on its reputation by holding an annual bicycle race dubbed...
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Ukraine Election: President Zelensky’s Party Heads for Win
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s party is set to convincingly win a snap parliamentary election, consolidating his political power. Exit polls suggest the Servant of the People party will have...
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Govt Pushes Malila Candidature to UN Committee
The Zambian government has requested the government of Ireland to support the candidature of Supreme Court Justice Mumba Malila to the United Nations Committee against Torture (CAT) in the elections...
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CCZ Calls for Complete Withdrawal of Constitution Amendment Bill
The Council of Churches in Zambia (CCZ) has called for complete withdrawal of the Constitution of Zambia (Amendment) Bill 2019, saying the document is not progressive. The CCZ has noted that the ruling...
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Chinese Man, 13 Zambians Deny Unlawful Drilling Charges
A Chinese and 13 Zambians have pleaded not guilty to two counts of unlawful drilling in the Chingola Magistrates’ Court. This in a matter where Liang Bin Guang, a Chinese, is jointly charged with 13...
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56 Arrested for Smuggling Maize and Mealie Meal
Home Affairs Minister Stephen Kampyongo has disclosed that 56 people have so far been arrested for smuggling of maize and mealie meal into the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Kampyongo said the...
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Pres. Lungu Speaks Out on AFCON Qualification Disappointment
President Edgar Lungu has advised newly appointed Sports Minister Emmanuel Mulenga to help revive the waning football standards in the country. During the swearing ceremony of Mulenga at State House,...
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HH Says Ready to Meet Lungu Without Conditions
Hakainde Hichilema, the UPND president, has said he has always been ready to meet President Edgar Lungu. In response to a story in the Daily Nation where President Lungu is quoted as having expressed...
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Ex-Catholic Priest Turned Politician to Tie the Knot
Zambia’s High Commissioner to Australia Frank Bwalya says he will be getting married a few months’ time. The former Catholic priest turned politician says he has found a woman who is an Easterner with...
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Don’t Discard What Your Friends Started, Lungu Urges Transferred Ministers
President Edgar Lungu has told ministers moved to other ministries in last week’s Cabinet reshuffle against rendering as useless what their predecessors had put in place. President Lungu explained...
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Siliya Refutes eNCA’s ‘Erroneous’ Corruption Report
Chief government spokesperson and information minister Dora Siliya has described as highly erroneous and misleading a comment by journalist Kwangu Liwewe on an eNCA report that each Zambian minister...
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CBU Closure Could Have Been Avoided Had Luo Listened, says Union
The Copperbelt University Senior Administrative, Professional and Technical Staff Union has said the institution was closed by Professor Nkandu Luo because she did not listen to other stakeholders. In...
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Kitwe Council Directors Accuse Town Clerk of Treating Them Like Pupils
Directors at the Kitwe City Council have complained that they are being treated like secondary school pupils by Town Clerk Mbulo Seke. Some directors have said in separate interviews that Seke has been...
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Judiciary Permits Kitwe Council to Start Fast Track Court
The judiciary has granted Kitwe City Council authority to establish a fast track court. Council Assistant Public Relations Manager Lidah Kamanga said the Judiciary has authorised the establishment of a...
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78-yr-old Kasama Man Jailed 30 Years for Defiling Girl, 9
A 78-year-old man of Kasama has been sentenced to 30 years imprisonment with hard labour for allegedly defiling a nine-year-old girl. Sitting in Kasama, Ndola High Court Judge Emeria Sunkutu handed...
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OPINION: You Got it All Wrong Mr HH
When campaigning for the Patriotic Front candidate in Katuba over the weekend, President Edgar Lungu told the voters there that the opposition UPND and its president Hakainde Hichilema cannot even...
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Jerabos Riot Over Sinkhole Closure by Mopani
Some illegal copper dealers this morning fought running battles with police after Mopani Copper Mines closed a sinkhole near the South Ore Body Shaft for safety reasons. The group of youths blocked...
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Vedanta Out to Claim ‘Unprofitable’ KCM?
The South African High Court has today, Tuesday, granted Vedanta Resources an urgent interdict halting the liquidation of Konkola Copper Mines (KCM) which it owned via 79 per cent shareholding until a...
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S.A Court Ruling on KCM Has No Effect, Says Govt
The ruling of the South African High Court over the Konkola Copper Mines (KCM) liquidation process will not halt the process currently going in the country, the Zambian government has said. This is...
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UPND Cadres Again Attack PF Camp in Katuba
UPND cadres have allegedly attacked Patriotic Front members at a camp in Chifwankula of Chunga Ward in Katuba Constituency today. According to a statement issued to the media, Central Province PF...
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