Secretary to Cabinet Patrick Kangwa has directed the Smart Zambia Institute to ensure a mechanism for monitoring ICT implementation and performance across Government ministries,provinces and other institutions and sector’s is defined and put in place. Officiating at the validation meeting of the implementation of the national E-government plan in Lusaka today, Mr Kangwa says the plan being validated should provide strategic ...

Republican Vice-President Mutale Nalumango has said the EU/Zambia Economic Forum has provided a good platform for fostering interaction and partnerships between Zambian and European businesses. Mrs. Nalumango notes that the outcome of the two day event which was graced by President Hakainde Hichilema is evident of the vibrant relationship between Zambia and the European Union. The Vice-President said this during ...

Solwezi district has in the last five days vaccinated 4,969 eligible people against covid -19 after the re-launch of the vaccination campaign on Saturday by the vice president Mutale Nalumango. Solwezi central member of parliament Stafford Mulusa says this translates into 40 percent eligible population. Mr. Mulusa has encouraged traditional leaders and civic leaders to help with the campaign. He ...

TheCivil Society Scaling-Up Nutrition Alliance (CSO-SUN) is urging government to initiate interventions that are aimed at helping to sustain the decline in the cost of living. According to the Jesuit Centre for theological reflection (JCTR), the cost of living for a family of five in the month of april 2022 stood at k9,326.41, showing a decrease of k85.13 from the ...

Media Network on child rights and development, executive director Henry Kabwe, says it is unfortunate most of defilement cases are going unattended to without any kind of repercussions to perpetrators. According to the Zambia police service a total of 2,238 child defilement cases which amount to 72.6% have been recorded in the first quarter of the year. Mr. Kabwe is ...

Civil Society organizations decentralization alliance network (CSODAN) has advised the new dawn government to ensure that it is transparent and accountable to citizens in the implementation of all projects to avoid being found in a dilemma such as that of the ftj university in future. CSO-DAN national coordinator , George Chimembe tells q news that transparency and accountability can however ...

Secretary for public service management division  Margaret Miyoba has disclosed that a lot of civil servants have made applications for transfers  to be united with their spouses. Speaking in a telephone interview with q news, Mrs. Miyoba notes that the process is seemingly to be slow because there are few vacancies were the applicants can be transferred to. She notes ...

GEARS initiative Zambia executive director Mcdonald Chipenzi has backed the decision by the anti corruption commission (ACC) to appeal the decision of the magistrates’ court following a ruling to discharge former minister of housing and infrastructure development Ronald Chitotela from two counts of possession of property reasonably suspected to be proceeds of crime. The anti-corruption commission revealed that it will ...

Former foreign affairs minister Harry Kalaba has challenged the ministry of foreign affairs and international cooperation to explain whether it has allowed advocacy around lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender [LGBT] within Zambia. This follows a controversial move by the Swedish and finish embassies in Zambia to fly a rainbow flag, a symbol of l-g-b-t which is also known as the ...