By KAIKO NAMUSA – OPPOSITION Members of Parliament (MP) yesterday refused to back a motion by Finance Minister Alexander Chikwanda seeking to increase the threshold of domestic borrowing from K200 million to K13 billion, among...

By XAVIER MANCHISHI – THE Tribunal set up to probe Justice Minister Wynter Kabimba’s alleged breach of oath of secrecy has submitted its report to President Michael Sata. Chairperson of the Tribunal which sat for...

By CATHERINE NYIRENDA and PERPETUAL SICHIKWENKWE – VICE-PRESIDENT Guy Scott yesterday led hundreds of mourners at a funeral service for the late prominent lawyer and business executive Wila Mung’omba who has been eulogised as a...

By CHARITY MOONGA – EDUCATION, Science, Vocational Training and Early Education Permanent Secretary Patrick Nkanza was yesterday quizzed over the Milenge Trades Training Institute in Luapula Province where K3million was paid to a non-existent contractor...

By REBECCA MUSHOTA – STATE House has advised United Party for National Development (UPND) leader Hakainde Hichilema to tone down on his political rhetoric because it is irritating Zambians. Special Assistant to the President for...

By CHARITY MOONGA – THE Parliamentary Public Accounts Committee (PAC) yesterday took the Ministry of Transport, Works, Supply and Communications Permanent Secretary Charles Simpanje  to task over the misapplication of funds in excess of K12...

By KAIKO NAMUSA – GOVERNMENT has mobilised a grant of K1.8 billion (US$355 million) to improve water supply, sanitation and drainage systems in Lusaka, President Michael Sata has said. The funds have been organised through...

By KAIKO NAMUSA – FOREIGN Affairs Minister Wilbur Simuusa has told Parliament that Zambia is highly recognised as a champion of peace and security and has great influence around the continent. Mr Simuusa was responding...

By KAIKO NAMUSA and PERPETUAL SICHIKWENKWE – GOVERNMENT and the legal fraternity in Zambia have mourned the demise of eminent lawyer-cum-business executive Willa Mung’omba, who died in South Africa yesterday after an illness. Mr Mung’omba,...

By NORMA SIAME – KASAMA Central Member of Parliament Geoffrey Mwamba, popularly as GBM, has been expelled from the ruling Patriotic Front (PF). The expulsion of the former Minister of Defence is, however, subject to...