Leicester manager Claude Puel says the result is “not important” when they play Cardiff on Saturday – their first match since the club’s owner died in a helicopter crash at the weekend. Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha and four others were killed in the crash outside King Power Stadium on Saturday. Puel says it was the Leicester players’ decision to go ahead with ...

Two former Goldman Sachs bankers and Malaysian financier Jho Low have been hit with US criminal charges in connection with one of the world’s biggest financial scandals. The Department of Justice alleges the men participated in a scheme that stole billions of dollars from Malaysia’s development fund, 1MDB. One former Goldman banker pleaded guilty, the department said. The other banker ...

Roan Member of Parliament Chishimba Kambwili has been ejected from parliament after refusing to withdraw his remark warning ministers that they will be jailed once the pf is out of power. Mr Kambwili made the remarks when debating the budgetary allocation to the ministry of information and broadcasting services. Second Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly Mwiimba Malama asked Mr ...

Lands Minister Jean Kapata has disclosed that US4.3 million has been raised from the sale of the illegally harvested and confiscated Mukula logs by the Zambia Forest and Forestry Industry Corporation (ZAFFICO) since august 2017. In a ministerial statement to Parliament on how the proceeds from the sale of Mukulu trees are being accounted for, Ms Kapata says in 2018 ...

A combined team of medical specialists from Mission Bambini of Italy and the University Teaching Hospital (UTH) has successfully conducted 17 cardiac operations since Monday, 29th October,2018. The 19 member team from Italy which has partnered with medical specialist from UTH is in the country for their Sixth Cardiac Mission and has since Monday conducted 9 open heart and 8 ...

The Zambia Information and Communications Technology Authority (ZICTA) has noted with great concern the increase in the number of unsolicited messages consumers and users of ICT products and services have been exposed to. In a Statement, ZICTA Corporate Communications Manager, Ngabo Nankonde says the unsolicited messages are from third parties asking consumers to send money to a specific mobile number ...

The Civil Society Constitution Agenda (CISCA) says it will resort to pressuring government to release the refined draft constitution if government does not release the national document as a matter of urgency. Speaking at a media briefing held in Lusaka, CISCA Spokesperson Macdonald Chipenzi says CISCA is concerned with the lack of guidance on the draft constitution. Mr. Chipenzi says ...

Vice president Inonge Wina has been praised for acknowledging that poverty in the rural areas is on the increase in the Country. UPND Chairperson for Rural Development, Moono Mapani says he is happy and thankful that the Republican Vice President has finally agreed with his party’s observation. Mr. Mapani however, states that it is not good enough for the Vice ...

Ministry of Water Development, Sanitation and Environmental Protection, Permanent Secretary, Bishop Eddie Chomba is optimistic that once the K150 million Kafue Bulk Water Project is completed, Lusaka will have improved water supply. Bishop Chomba has told QTV news in an interview that 90 percent of the works on the project which is aimed at pumping water for consumption from Kafue ...

The Teaching Council of Zambia (TCZ) has warned that teachers who will be found wanting in the on-going investigation into examination malpractices face deregistration. Council Spokesperson Ngoza Malonga says any involvement by teachers in such acts is in breach of the code of ethics for the teaching profession and the teaching profession act no. 5 of 2013. Ms. Malonga says ...