The Auditor General’s report on the accounts of Parastatal Bodies and other Statutory Institutions from 2013 to 2016 has reviewed non – remittance of Statutory Contributions ranking as high as K664, 155, 249. The office says implication for this irregularity is loss of revenue to government in the case of non – remittances to the Zambia Revenue Authority and in ...

Police in Lusaka this afternoon blocked street vendors  near Kamwala trading area from going to State House where they wanted to be addressed by President Edgar Lungu. Sources talked to have disclosed that the traders wanted to go to statehouse and complain to President Lungu about high levels of poverty after they were removed from the streets amid fears of ...

The opposition UPND has called on President Edgar Lungu to set up a commission of inquiry to ascertain the dismissals and retirements in “national interest” for the civil servants in the country. And the party says it has learnt with sadness the recent non renewal of contract for Dr. Richard Mwiinga, the Chief Executive Officer of the Public Service Pension ...

The ruling Patriotic Front has with immediate effect lifted the sanctions imposed on Kabwe Central PF Member of Parliament Tutwa Ngulube by the provincial leadership following the directive issued by Party Secretary General Davies Mwila after the MP apologized for his attacks on PF and government. On 10th January 2018, the PF SG issued a directive to the Provincial leadership ...

Twenty nine new cholera cases with no deaths have been recorded in the last 24 hours indicating a 50 percent reduction from the 68 cases recorded yesterday. Health Minister Dr Chitalu Chilufya reiterates that cholera cases have continued to drastically reduce in the recent past days. Dr Chilufya has however stated that the downward trend of cases being recorded will ...

Chipolopolo coach Wedson Nyirenda says his team will not go to sleep after having beaten Uganda 3-1 in their opening Group B match at the African Nations Championship (CHAN). And Uganda coach Sebastian Desabre said it was not easy for him to chalk up a victory after having taken over the Cranes job in the last 10 days. During a ...

Zitukule Consortium, a civil society organization, says the call for national prayers by the Zambian government in the wake of the cholera outbreak is a total mockery to God and the Zambian citizens. Zitukule Consortium Executive Director Nicholas Phiri says the outbreak of cholera in Zambia has completely nothing to do with religion or God but that it is a ...

Dutch striker and record goalscorer Robin van Persie is heading home to rejoin his boyhood club Feyenoord, Dutch media reported on Friday.”Not everything is completely sorted out yet, but it seems to be moving in the right direction,” a club official told the ANP news agency. Van Persie is expected to undergo a medical at the weekend, Dutch media added. ...

Comedian and actor Aziz Ansari has responded to an accusation of sexual assault by saying he had believed the encounter to be “completely consensual”. Babe magazine published a detailed account over the weekend from a 23-year-old woman who said she felt “victimised” after a date with Ansari. She said it had taken her a long time to “validate this as ...

Actor Mark Wahlberg has donated $1.5m (£1m) to the Time’s Up legal defence fund. The move comes after it emerged that he was paid the sum to reshoot scenes for the film All The Money in the World. Wahlberg’s co-star Michelle Williams was reportedly paid only $80 a day in expenses for the extra work. Scenes had to be reshot ...