Daily Archives: February 26, 2016

Passenger killed, 11 others injured in Mazhandu accident

A female passenger died in a road traffic accident after a Scania bus Reg. ABK 8288 belonging to Mazhandu family bus services she was traveling lost control. Police Spokesperson Charity Munganga says the accident happened yesterday around 06 hours and left one female passenger dead and 11 injured. Ms Munganga says the accident happened when the driver of the bus ...

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Diplomats should follow normal channels of visiting political leaders – Wina

Vice President Inonge Wina says it is prudent that diplomats accredited to Zambia follow normal channels if they want to meet political players in the country. The Republican President said this in parliament during the vice president’s question time when she was responding to a question from Nakonde Member of Parliament Abel Sichula who wanted to know what the government’s ...

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2014 AG Report on Parastatals reveals irregularities totally over K396m

The Auditor General’s Office has released the latest report on Parastatal Bodies for the financial year ended December 31st ,2014 with financial irregularities totally to K396 million. The report has also highlighted the non-remittance of statutory contributions in amounts totaling K876 million while inadequately supported payments were at K15.5 million. Irregular payments and unretired imprest amounted to K2.4 million and ...

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Lungu accuse UPND of training militia in Lusaka

President Edgar Lungu has warned the opposition United Party for National Development (UPND) that he will not accept any lawlessness in the country. President Lungu says he is aware that the UPND President Hakainde Hichilema with the help of his vice in charge of politics Geoffrey Mwamba popularly known as GBM is training a militia group comprising of 250 people. ...

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Iran elections: Voters to pick new parliament and Assembly of Experts

Iranians are voting in elections for their country’s parliament and the Assembly of Experts, a clerical body that appoints the supreme leader. The poll is the first since Iran and world powers agreed a landmark deal over Iran’s nuclear programme. Reformists and moderates who back President Hassan Rouhani have formed a coalition called The List of Hope that aims to ...

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Kansas shooting: Police confirm four deaths in Hesston

Four people including the gunman have been killed in a series of shootings in the US state of Kansas, police say. Fourteen people were also injured in the shooting spree that took place in a number of locations. The suspected attacker was an employee at a lawnmower factory in Hesston where one incident happened, police said. He was later shot ...

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Mpakateni asks women to support each other

Lusaka Province Mobilization Chairman Nigel Mpakateni has advised women to take advantage of the pronouncement by President Lungu that the PF will adopt 40 percent of women for the forthcoming general elections. Mr. Mpakateni says women should support each other in this regard considering that the PF has given them an open door of supporting their fellow women. Mr. Mpakateni ...

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Clergyman counsels politicians

Presence of God Ministries founder Christopher Kunda has observed the need to uphold honest and sincerity in how politics are practiced in the Country. Apostle Kunda has reminded politicians to realize that politics is about governance and therefore if any political party wants to govern a Christian nation like Zambia Christian values must be upheld. He has told QTV in ...

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Siamunene vows to openly campaign for Lungu

UPND Sinazongwe Member of Parliament Richwell Siamunene has vowed to openly campaign for President Edgar Lungu in the forthcoming general elections. Mr. Siamunene who is also Defense Minister says this is whether he is adopted to stand on the ruling PF ticket or not. In an interview with QTV Mr. Siamunene has disclosed that he finds President Lungu to be ...

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Lungu is my late father’s vision carrier – Mulenga Sata

State House Deputy Minister Mulenga Sata has noted the need for people that believed in his late father President Michael Sata’s vision to look up to President Edgar Lungu’s vision. Mr. Sata says President Lungu as party leader and Head of State is now the carrier of the collective vision that his late father envisaged for the Country in line ...

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