The Auditor General says if the Ministry of Lands does not sufficiently regulate the system of land alienation, Zambia will have a shortage of land for future development. In the Report of the Auditor General on Government’s Efforts to Ensure Access to Land in an Effective Manner, the Auditor General noted that the system of...

The case in which musician Chama Fumba aka Pilato and five others are facing a charge of failure to comply with lawful orders by protesting against the purchase of 42 fire enginees and $42 million has failed to take off in the Lusaka Magistrates' Court for the second time. According to the state, the docket...

The Zambia Union of Government and Allied Workers has risen to defend President Edgar Lungu’s remarks on the Judiciary saying that yielding to outside influence is sacrificing judicial independence. At the media briefing today, UG president Muyaywa Kabisa said trivializing President Lungu’s ‘advice’ to judges was paying a blind eye to issues of state capture....

Police this morning picked up a decomposed headless body of a man believed to be in his early twenties which packed in a 50kg bag in Lusaka’s Chibolya compound. Police Spokesperson Esther Katongo confirmed this in a statement saying the body also had both legs and arms amputated. Katongo revealed that the body was discovered...

In this audio, UPND president Hakainde Hichilema says he is happy with the Paradise Papers because they show that Zambians can be entrepreneurial by investing abroad and bringing the money back home. And HH says he has only contested two proper elections since he took over the UPND. HH has been named in the latest...

The Civil Society for Poverty Reduction says the rate at which public resources are being misappropriated by those in authority has potential to leave the national treasury bankrupt. CSPR Eastern Province Coordinator Maxson Nkhoma said in a statement today that it was disheartening to see how public officials had continued mismanaging public funds as revealed...

One person has died while three others have sustained minor injuries in a road traffic accident which involved Chief Justice Ireen Mambilima's convoy. Police Spokesperson Esther Katongo confirmed this in a statement today but clarified that Chief Justice Mambilima was not affected as the vehicle she was in was not involved in the accident which...

President Edgar Lungu is right that if the Constitutional Court declares him ineligible to stand in 2021, there will be chaos. We totally agree with the Head of State, and in fact this is what we warned about in our editorial opinion titled “Let’s discuss Lungu’s successor now”. In our opinion, we said “those in...

The Auditor General’s report has revealed that a Ministry of General Education employee paid himself a total of K2,577,055 in the year ended 2016, for unexplained purposes. According to the Auditor General, a Bwalya L Phiri used different initials on nine occasions to draw money from a Ministry of General Eduction account, in an attempt...