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PATRIOTS for Economic Progress leader Sean Tembo says he is disappointed by the failure of the Constitutional Court to impose appropriate sanctions against Speaker Patrick Matibini for his willful breach of the Constitution in the Roan parliamentary seat case. Tembo, who welcomed the court’s judgment in the case in which it said among others that…
ZAMBIAN EMBASSY IN MALAYSIA REACTS TO SOCIAL MEDIA COMMENTS ON SEIZED TIMBER IN THAT COUNTRY Yesterday, The Star, a Malaysian Newspaper reported that customs authority there had confiscated a consignment of wood worth $2.15m exported from Zambia and destined for Viet Nam. Read full statement below…
By Tinkerbel Mwila The Zambia Union of Nurses Organization (ZUNO) is dismayed at government’s failure to pay four months’ salary arrears owed to over 3,000 nurses and midwifes recently employed in the health sector. ZUNO general secretary Fray Michelo says it is discouraging that when the nurses are working tirelessly to serve citizens who…
By Logic Lukwanda and Leah Ngoma The opposition UPND has demanded that government tells the nation if the detained Kabaso Mulenga commonly known as Spax is the mastermind of the recent gas attacks across the country. UPND Secretary General Stephen Katuka has also demanded to know who Spax, a pf member, is alleged to…
By: Anthony Bwalya – UPND Member. Let’s be very clear: The current, reignited debate about whether or not President Lungu is eligible to contest the 2021 general election is not about Edgar Lungu the person. This is about protecting the character and integrity of our constitution. One may now begin to get a good sense…
CONSTITUTIONAL Lawyer John Sangwa State Counsel says the Patriotic Front has chosen President Lungu to stand as the party’s Presidential candidate in 2021 at their own peril because the Head of State is ineligible. And Sangwa says he respects the opinion of PF secretary general Davies Mwila who defined him as a “dull lawyer” saying,…
GOVERNANCE activist Brebner Changala says PF will be thrown into disarray if they don’t find a qualified candidate by 2021. And Changala says as a lawyer, President Edgar Lungu knows that he does not qualify to stand in the 2021 elections. In an interview, Tuesday, Changala said PF’s endorsement of President Lungu as sole candidate…
NATIONAL Democratic Congress (NDC) president Chishimba Kambwili says his remarks on being ready to be Hakainde Hichilema’s running mate were taken out of context because what he actually said was “he who wants to lead must be ready to be led”. And Kambwili says he has engaged his lawyers on the possibly of taking action…
Family of songstress and entrepenuer Rachael J has rejected the allegations by her ex-partner, former Zimbabwe deputy minister of finance Terence Mukupe, that Prophet Shepherd Bushiri impregnated her. In a statement, the family says they want DNA test on the former lover of the deputy minister, Racheal J to prove that it was indeed Bushiri…