Top news items in major Zambian media outlets

LUSAKA, Feb. 24 (Xinhua) -- The following are news highlights in Zambia's major media outlets on Saturday.

-- Zambian President Edgar Lungu and his Rwandan counterpart Paul Kagame have agreed that the extradition of the 1994 Rwandan genocide fugitives from Zambia will be done systematically under the existing Joint Permanent Cooperation between the two countries.

Amos Chanda, spokesperson of the Zambian leader said Lungu was committed to ensuring that the matter was executed within the precincts of international legal framework. (Times of Zambia)

-- Zambian Vice-President Inonge Wina said there was nothing wrong about distributing school books bearing the portrait of President Edgar Lungu.

The Zambian vice-president said after opposition political parties condemned the distribution of Lungu-branded books in schools that the president's portrait was displayed in public and government offices and saw nothing wrong with school books having his picture. (Zambia Daily Mail)

-- The African Development Bank (AfDB) has announced its intentions to roll out mega projects in four key areas of Zambia this year.

Mary Manneko Monyau, the bank's representative in Zambia said feasibility studies were already on course in the targeted projects and that appropriate implementation activities would be funded once the studies have been concluded. (Daily Nation)

-- Sawmillers in Zambia have wondered why the popular Mukula timber logs were being sold cheaply, a move that was depriving the country of more revenue.

Zambia National Association of Sawmillers president William Bwalya said revelations by the government that the timber logs were being sold at a cheap price of 600 U.S. dollars per ton when its actual value was around 2,500 dollars raised a lot of questions on who the real beneficiaries of the country's resources were. (The Mast) Enditem