KAPIRI-Mposhi UPND member of parliament Stanley Kakubo says the trend of increasing budgetary allocation to Defence and Police is worrying as it points to militarization towards the general elections. And Kakubo says the Patriotic Front (PF) has continued with its lies to young people even though youth empowerment has never existed. In a statement to...

CONSTITUTIONAL lawyer John Sangwa State Counsel has insisted that there is no conflict between the Legislature and the Judiciary. And Sangwa says Zambia is engulfed in chaos with a fast-rising number of COVID-19 cases because the country lacks a clear national agenda to contain the virus. Sangwa was speaking when he appeared on a Diamond...

PATRIOTIC Front Secretary General Davies Mwila says constitutional lawyer John Sangwa State Counsel and Archbishop Telesphore Mpundu cannot dictate a candidate for the ruling party. Speaking when he met party officials in Mwense, Friday, Mwila insisted that the Constitutional Court ruled that President Edgar Lungu was eligible to stand in next year’s general elections. “Ifwe...

UPND leader Hakainde Hichilema says PF deputy secretary general Mumbi Phiri talks a lot but without intelligence and knowledge. And Hichilema says the Electoral Commission of Zambia (ECZ) should clean up and maintain the current voter register, arguing that replacing it will be an impossibility within a month. When Hichilema featured on Radio Phoenix' Let...

PATRIOTIC Front Secretary General Davies Mwila says it pains him that ministers who hail from Luapula Province are being targeted with corruption allegations. And Mwila says Zambians should give the ruling party an opportunity to govern the country for the next five years because PF has shown what it is capable of doing. Meanwhile, Mwila...

ZESCO Limited has denied conspiring with Energy Minister Matthew Nkhuwa and Konkola Copper Mines (in liquidation) to injure the Copperbelt Energy Corporation's business following the Minister’s decision to declare CEC’s transmission and distribution lines as common carriers. Zesco has submitted that it, rather, exercised its legal right to enter into a Power Supply Agreement (PSA)...

A ZAMBIA Revenue Authority (ZRA) officer has told the Lusaka Magistrates’ Court that he did not see any anomaly in the manner Leo Jonas Ngosa Investment Limited and Den Daas Investment Limited sold shares to Health Minister Dr Chitalu Chilufya. Mambwe Musungaila, a ZRA assistant director in charge of the Informal Sector and Medium Taxpayers...