Police have arrested a 35-year-old DMI St Eugene University student for allegedly defaming President Edgar Lungu, ministers and others on Facebook. In a statement today, Police Spokesperson Esther Mwaata Katongo revealed that Edward Makayi was using a pseudo name on social media. "We have arrested a student of DMI St Eugene University in Lusaka identified...

Patriotic Front (PF) Deputy Spokesperson Frank Bwalya says former information minister Chishimba Kambwili will soon rot like any part of the body does after being amputated. And Bwalya says Kambwili is good at producing lies as big as himself. Speaking when he featured on Radio Phoenix's ‘Let the People Talk’ programme today, Bwalya said Kambwili...

A wise Bemba saying “wilaikala pacipuna nowamatako ayakulu” warns against sharing a seat with a person with big buttocks because that person is likely to unseat you in the long run. This is true in principle and in reality. In reality, if you decide to share your seat with someone who is blessed with an...

Rainbow Party General Secretary Wynter Kabimba says expelled Roan PF Member of Parliament Chishimba Kambwili must stop crying like a boy on social media and show the Patriotic Front that he’s a man. Speaking on Prime TV’s Oxygen of Democracy programme yesterday, Kabimba invited Kambwili to join the Rainbow Party because he did not perceive...

Transparency International Zambia president Reuben Lifuka says 2021 presidential candidacy debates are premature and risk ushering the country into acrimonious election campaigns. On Sunday, Patriotic Front Secretary General Davies Mwila announced that the party’s Central Committee has adopted President Edgar Lungu as their preferred candidate for 2021 subject to approval by the general conference in...

Former Copperbelt Province Minister Mwenya Musenge says he is contemplating forming his own political party. In an interview today, Musenge, who was expelled from the ruling Patriotic Front along with former information minister Chishimba Kambwili on Saturday, said he was still consulting but forming a party was one was his options as he was a...

Strengthening and deepening democracy involves more than the holding of regular elections disputed or otherwise. There is a long of list of other checklists and benchmarks which must be met continuously. Of more immediate importance, is the autonomy of the three arms of the state, namely the executive, the legislature and the judiciary, which must...

Former information minister Chishimba Kambwili says government will spend $273 million on digital migration in six provinces when it only spent $9 million in four provinces. On a special edition of Muvi TV’s The Assignment programme yesterday, Kambwili said he washed his hands when government decided to single source Top Star. “I did not play...