Justice Minister Given Lubinda has ruled out the presentation of the Access to information bill and the Public Order ACT in Parliament for enactment and amendment respectively during the current sitting. Mr. Lubinda says the current sitting is overloaded with other bill presentations and it will not be possible to table the two legislations. He says with regards the Public ...

Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI) president Andrew Nthewewe has advised political parties in the country to desist from politics of antagonism. Mr Nthewewe says this is in order to avoid jeopardizing the impending political dialogue facilitated by the Commonwealth. He tells Q-news that the delay in the commencement of the dialogue might lead to politicians engaging in politics of antagonism. ...

Acting Foreign Affairs Minister Nkandu Luo has advised Members of Parliament against talking ill of heads of state of neighboring countries for the sake of protecting Zambia’s diplomatic relations. Professor Luo was responding to a question by Mazabuka central Member of Parliament Garry Nkombo on what the purpose of the recent visit to Zambia by DRC president Joseph Kabila was. ...

Political Analyst Alex Ng’oma says it is unnecessary for Members of Parliament to move a motion to impeach President Edgar Lungu, saying he has not committed any impeachable offence. Dr Ng’oma says the people calling for the impeachment of the President should give constitutional reasons why they are eager to impeach him. He has since advised Members of Parliament to ...

Government has maintained that the Natural Resources Development College (NRDC) has not been sold. Agriculture Minister Michael Katambo has told Parliament in a ministerial statement yesterday that government hs only signed a memorandum of understanding with AVIC International for the development of a new NRDC in Shibuyunji district. He says the intention by government to move the college to the ...

  Acting leader of Government business in Parliament and Chief Whip Steven Chungu says President Edgar Lungu will not retract his recent use of a Bemba idiom “ubomba mwibala alya mwibala”. Responding to Mazabuka central member of parliament Garry Nkombo on what the president meant by such remarks and whether he would retract his statement, Mr. Chungu who was standing ...