By Kwilanzi News Zambia ZAMBIA Union of Financial and Allied Workers (ZUFIAW) General Secretary Chingati Msiska has disclosed that the union is investigating some Financial Institutions that have forced employees to sign agreements that are not making sense. A worried Mr. Msiska has warned erring employers involved in imposing unfavourable employment contracts to prospecting employees of the impending ZUFIAW wrath once ongoing investigations find them wanting. Issuing a timely warning, in an interview with Kwilanzi News Zambia in Lusaka, Mr. Msiska advised employers abrogating existing labour laws to desist from abuse employee rights, as some employers are illegally deducting hours...

By Kwilanzi News Zambia As 15 months and two (2) weeks remain ahead of Zambians Voting, Leadership Movement Leader Dr. Richard Silumbe is advocating for a thirty-five year-(35 year) imprisonment with hard labour for anyone found misappropriated public funds in Zambia as it is a heinous crime against society. With barely, 473 days before Zambia Votes on Thursday 12th August 2021, from today Saturday, 26th April 2020, Dr. Silumbe has told Kwilanzi News Zambia in an interview in Lusaka that the Leadership Movement considers corruption as a ‘Defilement of the State’ stressing that anyone who is found misusing public funds must be mercilessly...

By Kwilanzi News Zambia UNITED Party for National Development (UPND) for Rural Reconstruction and Development Chairman Moono Mapani is demanding for high maize price for the 2019-2020 Marketing Season to protect Zambian peasant and commercial farmers. And Mr. Mapani has told Kwilanzi News Zambia in an interview in Lusaka that the Hakainde Hichilema led UPND expects the Zambian Government to take into account the socio-economic challenges faced the agricultural sector before arriving at the grain floor price. As the Seventh National Development Plan (7NDP) pegs agriculture as a spring board for a diversified economy and employment creation, Mr, Mapani advised...

[blockquote style=”1″][/blockquote] *Issued by Saboi Imboela* *Spokesperson- NDC* Sunday 26th April 2020 – Lusaka THE National Democratic  Congress, NDC, says that the Energy Regulation Board, ERB, should reduce pump prices to help cushion the social effects of COVID-19. The NDC president Dr. Chishimba Kambwili says that fuel pump price reduction and crude oil world over has become a trending phenomenal which should also benefit Zambians. This week’s global oil market prices have reduced following the COVID-19 pandemic encircling economic lockdowns in many countries, coupled with uncertainties within the OPEC agreement. Cuban Crude oil prices had reduced by 69% from $69.58...

Theresa Katongo Public Relations Officer Drug Enforcement Commission THE Drug Enforcement Commission on the Copperbelt has arrested a 56 year-old businessman of Kitwe for being in possession of over $19, 000 United States Dollars counterfeit notes. Fumbelo Westard, 56, a businessman of House No. 10116/2 Garneton East in Kitwe has been arrested for being in possession of $19, 600 United States Dollars counterfeit notes in $100 Dollar bills. The suspect was apprehended at a Zambia National Service checkpoint in Minambe area between Mufulira and Mokambo Border on a taxi coming from Kitwe. Meanwhile, the Commission in Central Province has arrested...

[blockquote style=”1″]*_Do Zambian pupils- students evaporate after an exam? – wonders Lewis Mwape_*[/blockquote] By _Derrick Sinjela_ *FORMER Zambia Council for Social Development (ZCSD) Executive Director Lewis Mwape* is disconcerted over ramifications created by the country’s pyramid education structure seemingly confining learners to destitution and near extinction. *Mr. Mwape* says it is concerning that at primary school level, a lot of children are enrolled but fail to reach or attain tertiary education and qualifications on account of lack of sufficient progression learning spaces. A vexed *Mwape* grieved that it annually puzzled him where learners are pushed to as thousands of pupils...