LOCAL

Zambians have been urged to use the Easter festivities to renew hope in the future of their country in spite of the economic challenges that they are going through. Evangelical Fellowship of Zambia (EFZ) Executive Director Pukuta Mwanza is confident that Zambia will overcome the hardships and become a better country. Reverend Mwanza says the festivities should thus be a ...

Konkola Copper Mines (KCM) vice-president for Local Economic Development David Paterson says the mining giant’s focus for survival is currently on reducing costs and increasing production. Mr. Paterson disclosed that KCM is investing in various areas of production such as on Cat 2 and F and D areas of the Chingola open pit in order to expand and increase production. ...

Opposition UPND President Hakainde Hichilema says his party is seeking to form government this year in order to serve the Zambian people more diligently. Mr. Hichilema says his party has no intentions whatsoever to earn money once it forms government. He says the UPND will rather dedicate its duty to uplifting the lives of the orphans than to have its ...

Retired veteran politician Vernon Mwaanga has vowed to continue speaking against bad governance under whichever political party forms government this year. Dr. Mwaanga says this is in line with his statement he made soon after his resignation from active politics that he will always speak out on matters of national interest. He states that as an elder statesman and a ...

Opposition FDD leader Edith Nawakwi has continued receiving condemnation for allegedly insinuating that President Edgar Lungu is courting her to become his presidential running mate. The ruling PF youths in Lusaka province are disappointed that Ms. Nawakwi can make such an alleged insinuation when it is not possible for President Lungu to do such a thing. In a walk in ...

Six people died on the spot in Kasama after a Toyota Corolla Registration Number ABE 608 they were traveling in hit into a Tanzanian registered Volvo truck that was coming from the opposite direction. The accident happened along the Luwingu Kasama road yesterday the 25th of March around 20:30 hours after the driver of the Toyota corolla failed to keep ...

First Lady Esther Lungu has urged Zambian diplomats to unite, love one another and serve Zambia well. Mrs. Lungu left New York on Friday after the conclusion of the 60th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW60), where she addressed several High-Level panel discussions, with messages emphasizing empowerment and protection of the wellbeing of women and girls ...

Siavonga District Commissioner Lovemore Kanyama has disclosed that government officials came from Zimbabwe to plead with the Zambian government over the arresting of 21 fishermen last weekend. Mr. Kanyama says it is too late because the 21 fishermen were already taken to court and were charged yesterday in Siavonga Magistrate Court for illegal fishing and entering into the country without ...

Lunte Member of Parliament Felix Mutati has charged that a political alliance with other political parties would not make sense if the MMD does not make any meaningful contributions to it. Mr. Mutati says this is the more reason he feels that the former ruling party should put its house in order before making such movements. And Mr. Mutati says ...

UPND President Hakainde Hichilema says this Easter must remind Zambians that there is hope through God’s grace regardless of what they are going through. In his Easter message to the Zambians, Mr. Hichilema says people should not take Christ’s sacrifice in vain but must work together to honour the sacrifice by caring for fellow brothers and sisters at all times. ...