Home Affairs Minister Stephen Kampyongo says 750,000 people in Africa have no proof of legal identity because of not being registered at birth. And United Nations Economic Commission for Africa director Oliver Chinganya says if civil registration is done properly with end-to-end data, there will be no need for nations to conduct the national census....

Zambia Italian Orthopaedic Hospital has dragged Franciscan Missionary Sisters Registered Trustees Zambia to the Lusaka High Court, seeking a declaration that it is the registered owner of the hospital. The hospital further wants an order that the Franciscan Missionary Sisters immediately yield up and give vacant possession to the hospital. In an affidavit in support...

The Kaoma Magistrates’ Court has granted Kaoma District UPND youth chairman Chola Simwawa K20,000 bail in his own recognizance in a matter he is accused of attempting to murder a suspected PF member. It is alleged that on October 6, this year in Kaoma, Simwana attempted to murder Gift Simangolwa using a gun. And when...

A suspected UPND youth has asked the Lusaka High Court to grant him leave to issue a writ of habeas corpus ad subjiciendum, directing the officer in Charge at Kabwata Police Station to present him in court. He further wants the officer in charge to show cause why he should not immediately be released from...

The Law Association of Zambia (LAZ) has asked the Constitutional Court to dismiss, with costs, an application by Lusaka lawyer Tutwa Ngulube where he wants LAZ’s contempt of proceedings against him set aside. On August 23, this year, LAZ filed a notice of motion seeking an order that Ngulube should be committed to prison for...

Trial has commenced in a matter in which former Family Health Trust executive director Benny Zulu is charged with murder of a 19-year-old woman whose body was discovered dumped in the outskirts of Lusaka. The mother of the deceased testified before the Lusaka High Court that her daughter received a phone call from an unknown...

United Prosperous and Peaceful Zambia (UPPZ) president Charles Chanda has asked the Lusaka High Court to grant him leave to issue a writ of habeas corpus ad-subjiciendum, compelling Zambia Police Service to present him in court. Chanda and his daughter were arrested over a week ago at the Lusaka Magistrates’ Court after they appeared in...

Many judges of have characterised President Edgar Lungu’s State of the National Address (SONA, themed ‘Accelerating Sustainable Development for a Better Zambia Amidst the Impact of Climate Change’) on 13th September 2019 as uninspiring and a missed opportunity to address the key development challenges facing the country such as perception of corruption, high cost of...

The unsolicited bid for the construction of Kafulafuta, Michael Sata and Daniel Munkombwe Toll Plazas accepted by Road Development Agency from AVIC International was a complete rip-off. Government is aware of this, and that is why when the minister in charge was queried in Parliament, he did not disclose that it was actually a single-sourced...

Samfya District HIV/AIDS coordination (DACA) advisor Moses Musongole says over 17,000 condoms were distributed during the just-ended summer festival, which celebrated the achievements of Zambian sporting legends, Kalushya Bwalya and Samuel Matete. In a statement availed by Samfya Town council public relations officer Gwendolyne Mchenga, Tuesday, Musongole said the condoms were distributed in strategic places,...