ZAMBIA NEWS

Zambia Revenue Authority (ZRA) officers have visited the Post Newspapers offices on Bwinjifumu road in Rhodespark in an operation linked to the media institution’s outstanding tax payments. The team of ZRA officers arrived at the Post Newspapers offices around 10:00 hours and by about 13:00 hours the officers were still inside the company premises. Attempts by Journalists who have besieged ...

Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs George Zulu says Zambia’s preventive measures following the outbreak of the Ebola virus in West Africa has not affected bilateral relations with neighboring countries. Mr. Zulu says country will also continue leaving its borders open for people from other countries to enter Zambia in view of precautionary measures put in place to ...

The Anti-Corruption Commission has arrested Livingstone Town Clerk Vivien Chiwila Chikoti for abuse of authority of office involving over K 750, 000. ACC Public Relations Manager Timothy Moono in a statement made available to QFM News today says Ms Chikoti, aged 49, of House No. 2 Flamboyant Street, Town Area, Livingstone was arrested today, 22nd September and has been charged ...

The Lusaka Magistrate Court has acquitted Roma Girls Secondary School teacher Daswell Sichilongo who was charged with assaulting the school’s deputy Head teacher Sister Emma Chakupalesa. Magistrate Aridah Chulu acquitted Mr Sichilongo this morning after Sister Chakupalesa withdrew the case following their reconciliation by the church. Mr Sichilongo on 21st July vented her anger on the Catholic Nun by unleashing ...

Chief Chamuka of the Lenje speaking people of central province has observed that agriculture still remains critical to the survival of many people in rural areas of the country. Chief Chamuka says it is thus important that government remains committed to supporting farmers across the country. He notes that this means that there is need for government to continue increasing ...

The Southern African Center for the Constructive Resolution of Disputes (SACCORD) has observed that President Michael Sata’s Friday speech to Parliament has not responded to the immediate and long term needs of the people of Zambia. Executive Director Boniface Cheembe says the Zambian people have been very consistent with regards the issues they think need to be addressed with urgency. ...

Opposition People’s Democratic Party (PDP) President George Mpombo says President Michael Sata’s cracking voice and inability to complete his last Friday’s speech to Parliament does not justify calls that the President should take a rest from work. Dr. Mpombo says he personally does not think the health of an individual should be judged on his voice as it is a ...

Former Church of God Overseer Bishop John Mambo has doubted genuineness in the people surrounding President Michael Sata. Bishop Mambo says President Sata should not have been subjected to opening the fourth session of the eleventh national assembly in the health state he appears to be in. Bishop Mambo notes that much as the President has a heart to work, ...

Republican Vice president Guy Scott says President Michael Sata is not being forced by anyone in government to continue working despite widespread fears that he is unknown and that he should take a rest. Dr. Scott says if President Sata has chose to continue working despite calls that he takes a rest from his presidential duties to recuperate from his ...

The opposition Zambians for Empowerment and Development (ZED) has observed that the spectacle of President Michael Sata struggling to go through his written speech during the official opening of Parliament on Friday yesterday only shows how uncaring the nation has become as a people. ED president Frederick Mutesa says President Sata’s state of health eclipsed whatever he was trying to ...