The Department of Immigration has apprehended 67 persons in a clean-up operation conducted in various parts of Kitwe.  Confirming the development Department of Immigration Public Relations Officer, Namati Nshinka says the 67 persons were apprehended yesterday.  Mr. Nshinka says those nabbed are 34 Tanzanians from Chisokone market for trading without permits, and 14 Chinese for abrogating the terms and conditions ...

The UPND-Alliance council of presidents is dismayed and shocked by what it terms as overzealous, insensitive, and immature statements, by UPND Spokesperson Cornelius Mweetwa, against the Alliance Partners.  During a press briefing yesterday Mr Mweetwa says although individual political leaders of the alliance played their role in ensuring that the party emerged victorious in the 2021 polls, ordinary citizens played ...

Former Agriculture Minister Bob Sichinga has charged that the distribution of farming inputs for the 2022-2023 farming season will delay. Mr Sichinga says this is because the government has delayed the announcement of the commencement of the tendering process for the supply and delivery of urea and d compound fertilizers for the 2022-2023 farming inputs. But Mr Sichinga feels the ...

FEMU Educational Success Director Febian Mumba has called on youths in the country to rise above the natural desire of mankind of wanting something for nothing or for free. Mr. Mumba has encouraged the young people to know that whatever they want in life must be achieved by working hard and smart for it. Speaking at a mindset transformation and ...

Socialist Party General Secretary and first Vice President’s Cosmas Musumali, says it is clear that the upnd leadership is frustrated with its criticism  that they are imperialist puppets and that they cannot also manage pressure emanating from the masses about the high cost of living.  Dr Musumali says the zambian masses are asking genuine questions about the low maize producer ...

The Council Of Churches In Zambia [CCZ] has noted with concern comments attributed to a senior military official indicating tolerance and endorsement of the soldiers’ behaviour, to torture and to mistreat the three boys that recently insulted the republican president. Council General Secretary Emmanuel Chikoya says this kind of behaviour will lead to a culture of impunity by military personnel ...

The National Union for Small Scale Farmers (NUSFAZ) says the decision by Acting Minister of Agriculture Makozo Chikote to rescind the decision by Food Reserve Agency (FRA) to reduce satellite depots by half is commendable. FRA had reduced the number of depots from 1, 200 to 600 during this Crop Marketing Season prompting stakeholders to call for the rescinding of ...

Zambia Alliance for Tobacco Control has implored the Government to take a leaf from the United States of America and ban the distribution and use of Electronic cigarettes in the Country, as well as the booming Shisha industry before the rural communities get trapped in these negative and dangerous trends. Alliance Secretary General Teddy Mulenga says the US despite not ...

Some Patriotic Front Members of Parliament have called the new dawn government to provide a plan on how it intends to address the high cost of living in the country. Patriotic Front Mfuwe Member of Parliament Maureen Mabonga says the high cost of living the country has been subjected to under the new dawn Government is a source of concern. ...

Parliament has unanimously ratified the presidential appointments of Lawyers Musa Mwenye and Gilbert Phiri as Chairperson and Director General respectively of the Anti Corruption Commission (ACC). Others whose appointments have been ratified are retired Judge Prisca Matimba Nyambe and Chad Muleza to serve as members of the judicial complaints commission (JCC),Irene Musonda Chongo Lamba,Dr Henry Bwanga Mbushi, and Dr O’brien ...