Minister of Finance Margret Mwanakatwe says over K3.9 billion has been provided in the 2018 Budget for empowerment programmes under various Ministries and Government Spending Agencies. The Finance Minister says this is in addition to some on-going programmes facilitated through foreign financing such as the US$50 million Zambia Agriculture Enterprise Development Fund. Ms Mwanakatwe breaks down the K3.9 billion that ...

Nine months old former Siamese twins’ Mapalo and Bupe have today been discharged from the intensive care unit. Mapalo who is currently weighing 8.7 kgs is well and learning to sit while Bupe whose recovery has been slow is currently weighing 7.6 kgs, is much improved, off the oxygen and feeding well. On 2nd February the twins who where conjoined ...

The Constitutional Court has sent back to the Lusaka High Court the matter in which Munali PF Member of Parliament Professor Nkandu Luo challenged the nullification of her seat by the lower court. The Case has since been adjourned to 24th March, 2018 this is to able for the viewing of the video of evidence. The ConCourt ruled on the ...

Superstar Bollywood actress Sridevi Kapoor died of accidental drowning, a Dubai post-mortem report has said. The 54-year-old actress, known simply as Sridevi, drowned in her hotel apartment’s bathtub following loss of consciousness, it says. It had earlier been reported that she died of cardiac arrest on Saturday while at a family wedding in Dubai. Bollywood stars, sporting giants and leading ...

The father of a 14-year-old girl who is among 110 believed to have been abducted by Boko Haram has pleaded with the Nigerian government to act quickly. “We don’t want these girls to stay long with those militants. Anything can happen to them,” Kachalla Bukar told the BBC. Jihadists stormed the school in the town of Dapchi in the north-eastern ...

Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has ordered a daily humanitarian pause in fighting in the Eastern Ghouta enclave in Syria. It will start on Tuesday, and include the creation of a “humanitarian corridor” to allow civilians to leave. The rebel-held area has been under intense bombardment by the Syrian government, with Russian backing, for over a week. It has led to ...

Bwana Mkubwa Member of Parliament Dr Jonas Chanda has emphasized that the church and government are partners in human development. Dr. Chanda says both the church and government have the common duty to serve the Zambian people and uplift their lives so that they all experience the fullness of life according to scripture. Dr. Chanda was speaking at Reformed Church ...

Lunte Member of Parliament Mutotwe Kafwaya says the opposition UPND is wasting its resourceful time and energy to plan to move a motion in parliament to impeach President Edgar Lungu. Yesterday UPND President Hakainde Hichilema instructed all UPND Members of Parliament to commence the impeachment process of President Lungu. But the Lunte lawmaker says President Lungu has not done any ...

The Zambia Federation of Employers (ZFE) maintains that it has opposed the National Health Insurance Bill because Zambian workers and employers are over taxed. The federation has also threatened to take legal action against the government through the Ministry of Health if they fail to listen to the concerns from various stakeholders. ZFE Executive Director Harrington Chibanda has told QTV ...

The National Council for Construction (NCC) says it wants to ensure that 20 percent minimum  of all government funded road contracts in the country are executed by Zambian citizen owned companies in 2018. NCC Executive Director Mathew Ngulube says this is in line with the shareholding structure specified in the Citizens Economic Empowerment Act No. 9 of 2006, whose overall ...