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Malawi has asked boxing star Mike Tyson to become the official ambassador for the country’s cannabis crop. Agriculture Minister Lobin Low sent a letter to Tyson inviting him to take up the role, and said legalisation in Malawi had created new opportunities. Tyson, a former world heavyweight champion, is an entrepreneur and has invested in […]
Bowman Lusambo has launched his fight to recover the lost Kabushi seat after High Court Judge Edward Musona nullified it last week Friday. Lusambo through his lawyers, Makebi Zulu Advocates have today filed an appeal in the Constitutional Court against the Ndola High Court judgement to nullify his election as the area Member of Parliament. […]
Mopani copper mines employees on the copper belt have today November 18,2021 received the second installments of accrued benefits. Confirming the development, United Mine Union of Zambia Secretary General Victor Nyirongo has thanked the government for intervening into the matter and ensuring that miners are paid. Speaking in an interview with Mafken FM radio today, […]
Patriotic front-PF-Kantanshi Constituency Lawmaker Anthony Mumba has assured Mopani Copper Mines-MCM-Employees in Mufulira that their delayed payment of accrued benefits will be paid by next week. Mr. Mumba has called on MCM employees in Mufulira to be patient with government as it is committed to seeing that the second phased payments are made within a […]
The Constitutional Court is today Monday expected to hear an application in which Governance Activist and voter in Constituency Isaac Mwanza has applied to join the case in which the UPND are seeking means in which the courts and tribunals should easily nullify parliamentary and local government elections. UPND Media Committee Member Joseph Busenga has […]
ABSA Bank has failed to locate the whereabouts of fugitive banker, Pamela Gongwe, whom it has sued in the Lusaka High Court demanding over K200,000 in a housing loan facility she got from the institution in 2010. The bank has submitted that it has failed to serve summons on Ms Gondwe, who is no longer […]
Rapper Travis Scott should have halted a show in Houston which saw a deadly crowd surge when he noticed people in trouble, the city’s fire chief says. “Everybody at that event had a responsibility,” Samuel Peña told NBC. “From the artist on down.” Eight people were killed and hundreds more injured in a crush at […]
Tigray’s rebel forces currently have the upper hand in the war that erupted a year ago in northern Ethiopia. Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, who fell out with the governing party of Tigray over his political reforms, has declared a nationwide state of emergency – it is fear and uncertainty that now rule. As rebels advance […]
BRAVE, ambitious, hopeful, transformational and even audacious were all adjectives used by stakeholders to describe the 2022 national budget to be implemented from January 1, 2022, pending the expected parliamentary approval. Speaking during the ZiCA 2022 post-budget analysis dinner at Mulungushi International Conference Centre (MICC), Friday evening, various stakeholders delved into the 2022 budget speech […]
The World Bank has suspended its aid to Sudan, after the military there staged a coup against the civilian government. Political leaders were arrested on Monday, sparking nationwide protests and international condemnation. The African Union (AU) has also suspended Sudan from the bloc over the “unconstitutional” seizure of power. The US has frozen $700m (£508m) […]
