Government says it will continue to respect, recognize and appreciate the role that traditional leaders play in the economic development of the country. Speaking when opened a conference for female chiefs as advocates of peace and stability in Zambia, Vice President Inonge Wina says female traditional leaders are very instrumental in preaching peace and stability in the country because of ...

Chief Government Spokesperson Chishimba Kambwili says calls by the opposition UPND urging workers to shun Labour Day celebrations go to show how ungrateful they are to the people of Zambia. Mr. Kambwili has told Journalists in Lusaka today that since the PF came to power in 2011, the UPND has been inciting people to shun national public events describing them ...

Government has disclosed that it has put in place a requirement that suppliers of fuel to the country have 20 percent of their transportation fleet being local Zambian transporters. Mines, Energy and Water Development Minister Christopher Yaluma has told a petroleum industry indaba in Lusaka this afternoon that this is in order to promote local participation in the petroleum sector. ...

Republican President Edgar Lungu says he cares less about his immunity being lifted just after leaving office because he has nothing to fear or hide. UPND Presidential Advisor Douglas Siakalima is quoted saying President Lungu’s immunity will be lifted immediately he leaves office to pave way for investigations into his government’s questionable operations. But President Lungu says he has nothing ...

Preliminary investigations have revealed that the system disturbance that led to the country being plunged in total darkness last night emanated from the Kitwe substation and later spread to Luano substation. And ZESCO says over 1,500 megawatts of power was cut off from the national grid as a result of the system disturbance. ZESCO Senior Manager Marketing and Public relations ...

  United Nations (UN) Resident Representative Janet Rogan has disclosed that Zambia has been rated among the top ten countries with the highest deforestation rates in the world. Ms Rogan says studies by the UN joint programme to reduce emissions from deforestation and Forest Degradation (UN-REDD) have shown that there are many drivers of deforestation and forestry degradation in Zambia ...

The retrial in the matter in which Directors of the defunct Zambian Airways were ordered to pay K14 billion debt to the Development Bank of Zambia was this morning cut short after anomalies were noticed in the contents of the amended statements of claim and writ of summons filed before the High Court. High Court Judge Justine Chashi was due ...

The Patriotic Front (PF) Ward elections in Kabwata constituency were this morning marred with confusion and confrontation after some members were barred from taking part in the elections on account that they are suspended. PF Members who were barred from participating in the elections however argued that the party leadership recently lifted all the suspensions at the party grass roots ...

Bank of Zambia Deputy Governor for Operations Bwalya Ngándu says by building a strong and robust small and medium scale enterprise (SME) sector, Zambia can find medium to long term solutions required to build an equally robust and self sustaining economy. Speaking he delivered his keynote address at a small and medium scale enterprises (SMEs) training workshop organized by Standard ...

ZESCO Limited says it is still investigating the cause of last night’s power outage in eight of the country’s ten provinces. Spokesperson Henry Kapata has told QFM News that preliminary investigations have established that the cause of the power blackout in the country was caused by a system disturbance which resulted in Kafue and Kariba North Bank operations to go ...