Former attorney general Musa Mwenye has weighed in on the killing by police of unarmed civilians Nsama Nsama and Joseph Kaunda saying Zambians made a mistake when they previously kept quiet on police brutality and other related atrocities. And Mwenye says he will, in collaboration with other members of the legal fraternity, ensure that circumstances...

THE DRUG Enforcement Commission (DEC) has arrested seven people, including three University of Zambia (UNZA) third-year students, for trafficking in over 30 grammes of cannabis. In a statement, Wednesday, DEC public relations officer Theresa Katongo disclosed the three UNZA students identified as Amadu Bah Mwansa, 22, Siddy Gadjo Mwansa, 22, and Kitonzui Mesala, 24, were...

HOME Affairs Minister Stephen Kampyongo says the ruling party keeps winning by-elections because people can see that President Edgar Lungu is working. And Kampyongo says he wants to be remembered for the works he has done in his constituency. Speaking when he delivered building materials for a 1×3 classroom block in Shiwang’andu's Chibesakunda area, Tuesday,...

PRESIDENT Edgar Lungu is expected on the Copperbelt for a three day working visit starting today. In an interview, Copperbelt Permanent Secretary Bright Nundwe said the visit was very important for the Copperbelt Province. Nundwe said President Lungu was purely going to tour developmental projects. "Yes I can confirm that His Excellency the President Dr...

ALLIANCE for Community Action (ACA) executive director Laura Miti says the excuses being given by former Cabinet Ministers and their deputies for delaying to repay the money they illegally acquired in 2016 shows that government does not respect the rule of law. And Miti says PF attempted to use the botched Bill 10 for the...

ABOUT 43 former cabinet ministers and their deputies have asked the Constitutional Court to allow them to pay back the money they are supposed to refund the State in monthly installments of K10,000 for those serving as ministers and MPs and K5,000 for those who have retired. Among the 43 are; Justice Minister Given Lubinda,...

THERE was panic and finger pointing during a Parliamentary Public Accounts Committee (PAC) hearing of the Ministry of Health drug supply scandal yesterday as government officials and directors of Honeybee Pharmacy sweated to explain how a US$17 million contract was awarded to an unregistered company which delivered toxic drugs and substandard condoms. And Ministry of...