Higher Education Minister Nkandu Luo says government  has approved 3, 050 university  bursary applications from the initial 3, 983 applications received representing a 76 percent rise in the bursaries scheme for university students. Delivering a ministerial statement in parliament, Prof. Luo says there was an increase in the number of applicants in the scheme than the initial 2009 students that ...

Defense Minister Davis Chama has disclosed that the Zambia National Service Troops that were deployed in the country’s border posts for the Anti-Maize smuggling operations of maize grain and products have been withdrawn from all operational areas due to the country’s bumper harvest. Mr. Chama told Parliament in his ministerial statement that since the inception of the operation, ZNS confiscated, ...

The board of directors of the National Savings and Credit Bank [NATSAVE] has resolved to relieve Cephas Chabu from his position as Managing Director of NATSAVE Bank effective Thursday 29th June 2017. Mrs. Mary Munansangu, who is currently Deputy Managing Director of the Bank, will act in the position of Managing Director for administrative convenience. NATSAVE Board Chairman Evans Chibiliti ...

Visiting Ghanaian President Nana Akufor Addo has observed the need for African countries to promote value addition in order to create the much needed jobs on the continent. The visiting Ghanaian Head of State said this in Ndola when he officially opened the 53rd Zambia International Trade Fair. President Addo was accompanied to Ndola by President Edgar Lungu and Commerce ...

Speaker of the National Assembly Dr. Patrick Matibini has reversed the suspension of UPND Mpongwe Member of Parliament Rasford Bulaya who was among the 47 suspended UPND Members of Parliament for boycotting President Edgar Lungu’s address to parliament. Mr. Bulaya becomes the second MP to be brought back to parliament after Namwala MP Moono Lubezhi whose suspension was reversed after it ...