Danny Pule's Dunamis Ministries has dragged 19 church members, among them a pastor, seeking an order that their continued use of its Avondale House of God is illegal as they were expelled due to their unbecoming behaviour. Dunamis Ministries is further seeking an order compelling Pastor Peter Chalwe to surrender to the church, the PA...

The Electoral Commission of Zambia (ECZ) has regretted the violence that characterised the just-ended Sesheke parliamentary and other ward by-elections in which several people got injured and others died at the hands of violent PF and UPND party cadres. In a statement, ECZ public relations manager Margaret Chimanse called on political leaders to take responsibility...

A Drug Enforcement Commission (DEC) officer has told the Lusaka Magistrates’ Court that out of the 24 kilogrammes of cocaine that went missing under the custody of the court, the Commission only recovered a few grammes. Choolwe Kaliba, 39, a DEC investigations officer, also admitted that the seven court officials accused of trafficking in the...

Rainbow Party chairperson in Eastern Province Boston Phiri says there is no need for the opposition to try to force President Edgar Lungu out of office before the 2021 general election, saying only God can remove him from office. In an interview reflecting on the widespread political violence in the just-ended Sesheke parliamentary by-election, Phiri...

UPND president Hakainde Hichilema says the 2019 mining fiscal regime needs to be revised because government will fail to raise their targeted revenues from a tax system that will prove burdensome on the sector. And Hichilema says he will not be surprised to hear that the PF government has adjusted downwards the tax regime owing...

Lawyers representing arrested Housing and Infrastructure Development Minister Ronald Chitotela yesterday complained that the News Diggers exposé that revealed the list of companies involved in the alleged corruption linked to the government official, was casting public judgement on the accused without trial. And Lusaka Magistrate David Simusamba has directed that media houses should desist from...

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) says Zambia has been estimated to have lost US $4 billion in the last 10 years from the effects of climate change. The UNDP has since called for the need to mainstream climate change into all plans for all sectors through the National Adaptation Planning Process. Speaking during the...

Suspected PF cadres besieged the National Assembly entrance, Thursday afternoon, dictating which of the members of parliament could be allowed inside the premises, while harassing opposition MPs believed to be critical of the government. And when Thursday's parliamentary session commenced at 14:30 hours, Speaker of the National Assembly Dr Patrick Matibini had a tough time...