Chishimba Kambwili says President Edgar Lungu is politically naked, but PF members think he is wearing the Emperor's new clothes. Speaking in an interview after he appeared in court yesterday, the former chief government spokesperson observed that people surrounding President Lungu, like State House Presidential Affairs Minister Freedom Sikazwe, were deceiving themselves into believing that...

Police in Kabwe have nabbed a man who shot dead his police officer friend around 01:40 hours, Tuesday. In a statement, police spokesperson Esther Mwaata Katongo narrated that the incident happened at a funeral house. "A Police Officer identified as Sergeant Samuel Tembo aged 47 of Kasanda Police Camp was allegedly shot dead by his...

Zambia Institute for Policy Analysis and Research (ZIPAR) executive director Dr Pamela Kabaso says Zambia needs K6 billion to for debt servicing annually. And Dr Kabaso has warned of dire consequences should government fail to adhere to austerity measures and fail to pay $750 million to service the first Eurobond by 2022. Speaking when she...

ADD president Charles Milupi says the fiscal policy measures recently announced by government are just window dressing, meant to deceive the donor community. And Milupi says he doesn't see government sticking to the guidelines due to lack of leadership at the top. On Thursday, Finance Minister Margaret Mwanakatwe issued a statement stating that the Head...

UPND deputy Spokesperson Conerlius Mweetwa says Lusaka should give the rest of the country a signal of how to treat PF in 2021. And Mweetwa says unlike PF, his party wants to ensure that the best suited candidate is picked to run for the mayoral race. In an interview, Mweetwa said having more than 30...

YALI president Andrew Ntewewe says Financial Intelligence Centre Director General Mary Tshuma and the board must go because they are putting the security of the country at risk by releasing intelligence information to the public. And Ntewewe says there is no legal provision which stipulates that the FIC must present its report to the President...

UPND Spokesperson Charles Kakoma says it was a mockery for President Edgar Lungu to announce austerity measures the same day he flew to Kenya for a private visit. And Kakoma has challenged President Lungu to prove he is not corrupt by acting on the Financial Intelligence Centre (FIC) report and ensuring that public officers cited...

He who goes to bed with an itchy bum, the English say, will surely wake up with smelly fingers. They could not have put it more aptly to define nature’s way of revealing things that are done in secrecy. Two months ago, Minister of Finance Margaret Mwanakatwe told the nation that Zambia was not in...

Governance Activist David Kakoma says the decision to deregister the Democratic Party, which former Foreign Affairs Minister Harry Kalaba intended to stand on in 2021, shows serious levels of dictatorship, intolerance and brutality in the manner in which the Patriotic Front is governing. In a statement, Sunday, Kapoma charged that the PF was creating a...