REA THREATENS TO SANCTION CONTRACTORS

By Hector Simfukwe- The Rural Electrification Authority -REA- has threatened to sanction contractors that fail to deliver projects according to government’s expectation. REA Chief Executive Officer LINUS CHANDA says it is wrong to raise people’s expectations in rural areas but fail to provide them with electricity on account that a contractor has failed to do…

AUDITOR GENERAL TO EXPOSE MISMANAGEMENT OF PUBLIC FUNDS

By Ruth Chayinda- Auditor General DICK SICHEMBE says his office will vigorously discharge its mandate to ensure all forms of mismanagement of public resources are exposed and dealt with accordingly. Dr. SICHEMBE says this will be done in partnership between his office and other oversight institutions to ensure abuse of public resources is followed up…

Nigeria says students badly treated at Ukraine border

(BBC) Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed displeasure at reported incidents of mistreatment of some Nigerian nationals attempting to flee Ukraine. A total of 4,000 Nigerian citizens are still stranded in Ukraine. In a statement on Twitter, the president’s office said Ukrainian police and security personnel had reportedly refused to allow Nigerians to board buses and…

LEADERSHIP MOVEMENT WANTS ZNS TO BE INCHARGE OF ZAMBIA’S GOLD RESERVES

By Chileshe Mwango Opposition Leadership Movement President Richard Silumbwe has advised government to leave the operations of gold reserves dotted across the country to the Zambia National Service –ZNS-. In an interview with Phoenix News, Dr. Silumbwe says it is high time Zambia stopped depending on foreign companies for investment in the extraction of its…

PUTIN ORDERS MILITARY COMMAND

Russian President VLADIMIR PUTIN has ordered his military command to put nuclear forces on a “special’ state of alert. This is after what Moscow calls “aggressive statements” by NATO countries. BBC reports that Russia’s leader had already issued a coded warning that he was willing to use nuclear weapons as he began his invasion of…

BOY ELEVEN ELECTROCUTED

  An 11-year-old boy has died after he was electrocuted in Lusaka’s Garden House area. DAVID MWALE was electrocuted yesterday afternoon, when he stepped into a pool of water on the ground, which had covered an underground electricity cable. The boy’s father, WILLIAM MWALE says this happened at one of the houses in the area,…
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