Information and Broadcasting Services Minister Chishimba Kambwili has urged the media in the country to maintain high ethical and professional standards if their stories are to compete favorably at the highest level. Speaking during the launch of the 2015 SADC media awards in Lusaka this morning, Mr. Kambwili has expressed happiness that Zambia has been a perennial participant and ...

AGRICULTURE Minister Given Lubinda says the country has a milk deficit of about 85 million litres of milk. Mr. Lubinda has told Parliament in a ministerial statement this morning that the country produces approximately 215 million litres of milk out of the required 300 million litres per year. He however, says that only 65 million litres of milk are processed ...

Football Association of Zambia President Kalusha Bwalya has been honored with the Pilgrim award by the Senegalese Island City of Goree, the highest award on the Island. The honour was conferred on Kalusha yesterday in recognition of his contribution to the game of football in Zambia, Africa and the entire world. Speaking at a brief ceremony held at the Civic ...

All People’s Congress (APC) Leader Nason Msoni has encouraged President Edgar Lungu to uphold fiscal discipline if the country’s economy is to be back on track. Mr. Msoni has also backed calls for President Lungu to trim the size of his cabinet if he really wants to cut down on government expenditure from now going forward. He notes that a ...

UPND Secretary General Stephen Katuka says the PF government should not try to divert attention on the targeting for retirement of Police officers suspected of being UPND sympathizers and Tonga speaking by bringing in tribal talk. Mr. Katuka says it is in fact the actions of those who have the instruments of power that have the potential to divide the ...

Germany’s parliament is due to vote on whether the country should provide military support in the fight against Islamic State (IS) militants in Syria. MPs are expected to back the controversial plan, a BBC correspondent in Berlin reports. Tornado reconnaissance aircraft, a naval frigate and a 1,200 soldiers will then be sent to the region. But German forces will not ...

Transparency International Zambia (TIZ) Executive Director Goodwell Lungu has described the Public Procurement Sector as the most corrupt sector in the country. Mr. Lungu says the unprecedented levels of corruption in public procurement Sector are standing in the way of business. He says it is clear that persistent corruption in Public procurement is eroding all the progress made in improving ...

Kanye West was excited to talk about his family when he hit the stage to accept the Shoe of the Year honor for his Adidas Yeezy Boost 350 at the Footwear News 29th Annual Achievement Awards. “I’m waiting on my son to arrive any day now,” he told the audience on Wednesday night. “I look at my daughter and I ...

One of the first police officers to respond to deadly shootings at a social service centre in California has spoken of scenes of “unspeakable” carnage. Lt Mike Madden said he and officers who arrived later saw dead bodies and had to pass injured people as they tried to “engage the shooters” on Wednesday. Officials say a husband and wife shot ...

The multi-million dollar corruption scandal engulfing Fifa widened on Thursday with 16 people indicted by US justice officials who pledged an unremitting crackdown on an “outrageous” betrayal of trust. The latest dramatic twist in a long-running saga began with a dawn raid on a luxury Zurich hotel where Swiss authorities arrested South American Football Confederation (CONMEBOL) president Juan Angel Napout, ...