Stanbic bank has donated a total sum of K50 thousand towards the holding of this year’s Law Association of Zambia (LAZ) Annual General Meeting. Speaking during the official handover of the K50 000 cheque in Lusaka today, Stanbic Bank acting Chief Executive Officer Mukwandi Chibesakunda explained that sponsoring the LAZ Annual General Meeting is one way her bank supports the ...

The Zambia Revenue Authority says the introduction of the Central Processing Centre over which some clearing agents were demonstrating about at the Livingstone dry Port this morning is one of the trade facilitation tools in addition to the new e-payments solutions introduced to ease the cost of doing business for its stakeholders and make processing of transaction easier and faster. ...

UNHCR Representative in Zambia, Laura Lo Castro, has commended Zambia for embracing co-existence, after years of hosting migrants and refugees. Featuring ZNBC’s TV2, Morning Live programme today, under the topic, Unite Africa, Ms Lo Castro commended the political and traditional leadership in Zambia for fostering unity for several years now. Ms Lo Castro who touched on a wide range of ...

Opposition United Party for National Development (UPND) President Hakainde Hichilema has urged the PF government to work out modalities of reducing the high cost of production in the agriculture sector. Mr. Hichilema told journalists this afternoon at the ongoing 2015 Agritech Expo Zambia in Chisamba that the PF government has totally neglected farmers in the country. Mr. Hichilema says a ...

Novak Djokovic progressed to the semi-finals of the Monte Carlo Masters by trouncing US Open champion Marin Cilic 6-0 6-3 in 65 minutes. The world number one won the first eight games before Cilic, the eighth seed, eventually managed to hold serve. Top seed Djokovic, 27, bidding to win a third Masters title in a row, said after the match ...

Plans for a Hollywood version of Doctor Who are part of the latest revelations from the Sony Pictures’ computer hack. The BBC said there was “tremendous interest” in the idea during a meeting with Sony last year, although no plans were finalised. The meeting was disclosed in a hacked email, made public on Wikileaks, six months after a cyber-attack on ...

Traditional Leaders in Muchinga province have appealed to President Edgar Lungu to defer the enactment of the constitution until contentious issues on land management are well resolved. The eight traditional leaders who had a closed door meeting with the president in Mpika today have said there are many things that need to resolve before a new constitution is enacted. The ...

Fugitive Iraqi militant leader Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, who was right-hand man to Iraq’s ex-leader Saddam Hussein, has been killed, Iraqi officials say. They say he died in fighting in Salahuddin province, north of Baghdad. His supporters have denied the claim. Al-Douri, 72, led the Naqshbandi Order insurgent group, a key force behind the recent rise of Islamic State (IS). He ...

Republican Vice President Inonge Wina has re-emphasized that government will not let any Zambian citizen die of hunger due to the poor rainfall experienced in the country. Speaking during the 2015 Agritech Expo Zambia in Chisamba today, Ms Wina says government has put the agricultural sector at the pedestal of delivering inclusive economic growth. Ms Wina says government is fully ...

President Edgar Lungu has commissioned and named the newly constructed hospital in Mpika district in Muchinga province after late President Michael Chilufya Sata. Speaking when he commissioned phase 1 of the K10 million hospital in Mpika today, President Lungu said the opening of the Michael Chilufya Sata hospital is yet another milestone which highlights the resolve of the Patriotic Front ...