The Zambia Federation of Employers is concerned with the increasing number of illegal strikes by employees demanding improved conditions of service with the latest being Dangote cement limited workers. Speaking during a press briefing in Lusaka today, ZFE Executive Director Harrington Chibanda says it is important for workers to follow the right procedure when need arises instead of abrogating labour ...

Zambia has received a consignment of close to one million doses of the Johnson and Johnson COVID-19 vaccine from the French and Spanish governments under the COVAX facility. Speaking after receiving the 907,200 vaccine doses that arrived in the country aboard the Emirates plane after 14 hours this afternoon, Health Minister Sylvia Masebo warned of a possible fifth wave of ...

The Electoral Commission of Zambia ECZ has launched a new logo and brand promise which reflect the commission’s strategic direction of a modern and futuristic approach,that captures its mandate to deliver credible elections. The new ECZ corporate brand identity is a re-designed logo with enhanced colors of the Zambian flag while the new brand promise is “your vote counts”. Speaking ...

Government has been urged to constitute a small technical  group comprising of experts in constitutionalism to first deal with the lacunas in the current constitution. CARITAS Zambia executive director Eugene Kabilika feel the group can later present its revised work to a larger group of stakeholders for ratification. He feels that constituting a small technical group of experts to deal ...

Environmentalist William Harrington has expressed shock over a remark credited by lands minister Elijah Muchima that he is not going to succumb to pressure from people with selfish interests trying to settle scores against individuals in the matter involving forest 27. Mr. Harrington has to the lands minister to desist from adopting what he terms as arrogant and insensitive stance over ...

Community Action Against Corruption [CAAC] has charged that the anti-corruption commission [acc] has no capacity to handle the numerous suspected cases of corruption that took place in the previous regime. Organisation chief executive officer Brightone Tembo  tells Q news that in the recent past the country has seen so many nationally exciting arrests of former government officials, but the rate ...

Golden Party of Zambia says the monthly fuel price reviews announced by energy regulation board (ERB) will contribute to instability in the market, affecting production and further push most of our people into poverty.  The ERB has migrated to 30 day pricing cycle for petrol, diesel and low Sulphur gas oil. But party leader Jackson Silavwe feels the Zambian economy lacks ...

Vice President Mutale Nalumango has disclosed that the new dawn government will prioritize improving the education sector in Kabwata constituency. Speaking after visiting the Kabwata market Mrs. Nalumango told journalists that the new dawn government will ensure that all the vulnerable children in the constituency attain proper education as the new dawn government attaches great importance to education. The vice ...

State House has tasked local authorities to rise to the challenge and execute their responsibility of getting rid of thuggery in the name of caderism in public places. Special Assistant to the president for politics Levy Ngoma says it is the policy of the united party for national development to ensure that there is no caderism in markets and bus ...

The death toll in a fatal road traffic accident in Pemba district of southern province involving a Toyota coaster bus and a truck, has risen to 16. This follows the death of two others who were admitted in the intensive care unit at Monze mission hospital. And Road Transport and Safety Agency (RTSA) Chief Executive Officer, Gladwell Banda has described ...