The Energy Regulation Board has announced an increase in fuel pump prices effective midnight 23rd September,2019. In a statement, ERB Board Chairperson Raymond Mpundu says petrol has been increased from K15.20 ngwee to K15.98 per litre representing an increase of 78 ngwee. Mr Mpundu says diesel has been increased from K13.43 ngwee to K14.23 per litre an increase of 80ngwee. ...

Higher Education Minister, Brian Mushimba says the delayed payment of stipends to students studying in Russia has been resolved. Commenting on the letter that has been circulating on social media purported to be from an anonymous student in Russia complaining that the students on government scholarships have gone and go for months without receiving their stipends, Dr. Mushimba has acknowledged ...

ZRA Corporate Communications Manager Topsy Sikalinda (Picture by Albert Mpezeni) The Zambia Revenue Authority (ZRA) has seized a truckload of Konyagi alcohol which was deliberately misclassified as building materials with intent to defraud the state of over k730,000. ZRA Corporate Communications Manager, Topsy Sikalinda says had the alcohol been cleared as hardware it would have only paid k43, 698 instead ...

Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) Secretary General Chileshe Kapwepwe says COMESA will continue to use trade as a means to support the development of member states. Speaking when Vatican Ambassador to Zambia Gianfranco Gollone presented his credentials as Special Representative to COMESA, Ms Kapwepwe says over the past 25 years, COMESA has been involved in supporting the ...

CUTS International Zambia National Coordinator Chenai Mukumba Consumer Unity Trust Society (CUTS) has advised government through the ministry of agriculture to ensure the country has enough maize stocks before thinking of exporting to neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo. Government has submitted a drat memorandum of understanding (MoU) report to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to facilitate for maize export ...

Deputy Secretary to the Cabinet Christopher Mvunga says failure by serving and former Ministers who remained in office after the dissolution of parliament to comply with the Constitution Court ruling to pay back the money they received in salaries and allowances will have consequences. Mr. Mvunga who is one of the former Ministers who remained in office after the dissolution ...

Watford goalkeeper Ben Foster says Manchester City are in such rampaging form that it will not be long before Pep Guardiola’s side pump in 10 goals against a team in the same match. Foster was on the receiving end of City’s record top-flight scoreline at the Etihad Stadium, as the hosts racked up an 8-0 victory over Watford in the ...

Manchester United have assured disgruntled fans that the club’s priority is success on the pitch rather than making money, saying they are committed to “winning trophies at the highest level”. Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s struggling team lost 2-0 at West Ham on Sunday to fall 10 points behind leaders Liverpool after just six Premier League games. United, who have been criticised ...

Fleabag, the savage BBC sitcom written by and starring Phoebe Waller-Bridge, has become the first British show to win best comedy series at the Emmy Awards in the US. “It’s so wonderful and reassuring to know that a dirty, pervy, angry and messed-up woman can make it to the Emmys,” joked Waller-Bridge on stage on Sunday – referring to her ...

US President Donald Trump has confirmed he raised the subject of former Vice-President Joe Biden and his son in a July phone call with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky. But Mr Trump denied pressuring Ukraine to investigate his potential Democratic rival in next year’s election. His admission about July’s phone call stoked calls for Democrats to launch impeachment proceedings in Congress. ...