The Centre for Trade Policy and Development (CTPD) says there is need for the country to have a stable mining policy if it is to maximize benefit from the sector. CTPD Executive Director, Isabel Mukelabai says the country is not benefiting as it should from the mining sector. Ms. Mukelabai says government should therefore come up with a mineral royalty ...

Government has u-turned on its promise to table the Access to Information Bill (ATI) in the current sitting of Parliament. Information and Broadcasting Services Minister Chishimba Kambwili says this is as a result of what he has termed as unethical reporting on national matters. Dr. Kambwili says government will not allow what happened in other countries to happen to Zambia ...

The Zambia Music Copyright Protection Society (ZAMCOPS) has terminated the distribution contract of Zambian music with a Kenyan company called AFRICHA. ZAMCOPS Board Chairperson Edify Hamukale in a statement says it has come to the his organisation’s attention that the AFRICHA has been selling ZAMCOPS members’ music online. Dr. Hamukale says AFRICHA has further sublicensed 51 Lex Records,which is the ...

The Solwezi Magistrate’s Court has sentenced a Social Welfare Officer at the Ministry of Community Development and Social Welfare to 12 months Imprisonment with Hard labour for corrupt practices involving K 2, 000. Magistrate John Harrison Mbuzi of Kabwe Magistrate’s Court who was presiding over the matter, yesterday, found Clifford Hamilandu, 37, guilty of One (1) Count of Corrupt Practices ...

Preparations for the African Development Bank (AfDB) annual meeting to be held in Lusaka next month have reached an advanced stage. Secretary to the Treasury Fredson Yamba has told a media briefing that government has recruited an event management firm which among other things is providing logistical support. Mr. Yamba says Hotels have also been secured with 2, 630 bed ...

A suicide bomber has blown themselves up in the western Turkish city of Bursa, killing one person and injuring 10 others , local media say. The attack took place near the city’s 14th century Grand Mosque, a symbol of the city, reports said. The governor of Bursa said the attacker was a suspected female suicide bomber. Turkey has been hit ...

RITA Ora has pushed herself into the spotlight for Beyoncé fans recently, after the singer dropped her latest album, Lemonade, over the weekend. The Beyhive have been relentlessly searching for “Becky with the good hair” since Lemonade was released on Sunday, and came to the conclusion that the X Factor judge is the woman in question. However, Rita has taken to Twitter to ...

Brown Ideye will return to international football with Nigeria after he earned a call from the country’s interim head coach, Salisu Yusuf, for the warm-up games against Mali and Luxembourg. The Olympiakos forward has been frozen out of the Nigeria men’s national team for more than two years. Yusuf explained that the coaching crew took time to decide on the ...

President Edgar Lungu has signed into law the Movable Property (Security Interest) Bill. The Act provides for a comprehensive legal framework that will facilitate lenders’ acceptance of movable property as collateral and increase access to credit. Commerce,trade and industry Minister Margaret Mwanakatwe in a statement says the specific objectives of the Act are to diversify the scope of movable property ...

President Edgar Lungu says the over $287 million Mongu-Kalabo road project fulfills the regional aspiration to promote intra-regional trade and open markets for free movement of people, goods and services. In a facebook posting ahead of the official opening of the Mongu-Kalabo Road and the Sioma Bridge, President Lungu says the road will also open up tourism potential to the ...