Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has been re-elected for a second four-year term, final results from Saturday’s general election show. The 76-year-old defeated his main rival, former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, with a margin of just under four million votes. Mr Abubakar’s People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has rejected the result. Delays and violence marred the run-up to the poll but no ...

The US House of Representatives has voted to revoke President Donald Trump’s emergency declaration over building a US-Mexico border wall. The bid to overturn the declaration now goes to the Republican-majority Senate, where some conservatives have said they will vote with Democrats. Mr Trump, who declared the emergency after Congress refused funding for the wall, has said he will veto ...

United National Independent Party (UNIP) Deputy Secretary General Reverend Alfred Banda says genuine dialogue is the only solution to end political violence which has escalated to very alarming and dangerous levels in the recent past. Rev Banda says the country needs political will especially from the ruling Patriotic Front (PF) and the United Party for National Development (UPND) to end ...

Government has been challenged to explain the logic in inviting the International Criminal Court (ICC) to Zambia when the Opposition Alliance has already hinted on doing so. Former Finance Minister Nga’ndu Magande does not think it is necessary for government to send another request to the ICC to investigate complaints against it. Mr. Magande is of the view that as ...

A public health research NGO conducting scientific research into the dual epidemics of tuberculosis and HIV, ZAMBART has noted the need for more effective prevention strategies to steeply reduce the number of new HIV infections in the country. ZAMBART conducted a cluster -randomized trial of the impact of a combination prevention package on population-level HIV incidence in Zambia and South ...

World Vision Zambia and Barclays Bank Zambia PLC have signed a Memorandum of Understanding aimed at improving the wellbeing of more than 15,000 underprivileged children and their families in Chongwe and Chilanga Districts with an investment of about K1.1 million. World Vision Zambia National Director John Hasse says the MOU will see the two organizations helping in the construction of a ...

Home Affairs Minister Stephen Kampyongo says his Ministry intends to recruit 3, 000 police officer this year. Mr. Kampyongo was responding to a question by Mkushi North Member of Parliament Doreen Mwape, who wanted to know how many Police Officers were recruited from 2015-2018, year by year, when the next recruitment will be undertaken and how many police officers will be ...

Agriculture Minister Michael Katambo has revealed that government has so far paid over 500 million kwacha to agro-dealers under the E-Voucher system. Mr. Katambo has told Parliament in a ministerial statement that as at 4th February,2019, a total of 998, 791 representing 99.9 percent of the targeted one million farmers in both E-Voucher and direct input supply districts had successfully ...

National Democratic Congress (NDC) Consultant Chishimba Kambwili has been granted a K3,000 cash bail with two working sureties each to pay K8,000 in case of default by the accused. And Mr Kambwili has pleaded not guilty to the charge of  expression or showing hatred,ridicule or contempt for persons because of race,tribe or place of origin or colour contrary to section ...

Justice Minister Given Lubinda says the Constitution refinement process will go ahead next month with or without the participation of the Opposition Alliance. Mr Lubinda says the constitution refinement process will commence as scheduled in the second week of March. He says government is confident that once this process is complete, the Constitution Amendment Bill which requires a two thirds ...