A ZAMBIA Air Force officer accused of abusing and torturing her 11-year-old niece has denied the allegations before the Lusaka Magistrates' Court, claiming that the victim burnt herself after dropping a bucket of hot water. This is a matter in which Mildred Luwaile of ZAF Twin Palm is charged with assault on a child. Particulars...

A BUILDER of Lusaka's Chamba Valley has been dragged to court for allegedly defiling four girls on the same day. Joseph Winga, 35, is facing four charges of defilement of a child. In count one, it is alleged that on July 3, 2020, Winga defiled a 13-year-old girl. In count two, it is alleged that...

UPND national youth chairperson Likando Mufalali says the Ministry of Defence should be transparent in selecting recruits during the ongoing defence recruitment. And Mufalali says overwhelming numbers of youths applying for this recruitment is a sign of the PF government’s failure to provide much-needed jobs promised to citizens. In an interview, Mufalali charged that the...

GOVERNMENT has forcibly taken over Horizon School situated in Lusaka's Kabulonga area. In an interview Horizon School board chairperson Leslie Mbula confirmed this incident and said police officers had forcefully taken over the school and that government had appointed a new chairman and had installed a new principle. Mbula said it was disheartening that government...

PRESIDENT Edgar Lungu will be wasting time by attempting to constitute a commission of inquiry into the privatisation process because it remains a non-issue among Zambians, says Democratic Party leader Harry Kalaba. And Kalaba says the PF should just get in the battleground and campaign ahead of the 2021 elections instead of using ill methods...

MINES Minister Richard Musukwa says KCM provisional liquidator Milingo Lungu’s activities at the mining company is consistent with, and within the provisions of the law. And Musukwa has reiterated that there are a number of investors lined up and interested to partner with ZCCM-IH to operate KCM once the ongoing arbitration processes have been exhausted....

SUSPENDED Kitwe Mayor Christopher Kang’ombe says Patriotic Front secretary general Davies Mwila guided him to start establishing himself so that he can stand in Kamfinsa constituency next year. And former Kitwe District Commissioner Binwell Mpundu says he is not moved by his suspension from the ruling party and has vowed to continue mobilising for President...

UPND and NDC youths have vowed to continue with their planned nationwide peaceful protests despite refusal by police to grant them a permit. Speaking during a joint press briefing at the UPND secretariat, Wednesday, UPND national youth chairperson in charge of politics Gilbert Liswaniso charged that the PF government was full of junkies and the...

THE board and partners of SADC Good Governance and Elections Monitoring (SGGEM) have written to Electoral Commission of Zambia (ECZ) chief electoral officer Patrick Nshindano, demanding that the 2016 voters' register must be updated instead of deleting it in preference for a new register. SGGEM is an organisation of Mainly Zambians and South Africans centred...

FORMER North-Western Province minister Dawson Kafwaya has returned to the UPND after resigning from the ruling party earlier this year. Kafwaya, who is also former Solwezi Central UPND member of parliament, says he was enticed to join the PF shortly after being elected in 2014 but was disappointed because most of the promises that were...