UGANDA’S President Yoweri Museveni broke the Internet last week during the International Anti-Corruption Day when he said the corrupt people in his country should not be harassed with a lifestyle audit because they are doing a good job in building infrastructure from stolen money. According to President Museveni, people who steal from government and spend...

DEMOCRATIC Party leader Harry Kalaba says he is concerned that a team of immigration officers visited Zambia Soccer Star Stopilla Sunzu’s family house. In a statement, Wednesday, Kalaba said it was strange that the immigration department had suddenly come to a realization that Sunzu was not Zambian. “The DP is concerned to learn that a...

THE Ministry of Education has disclosed that the Keeping Girls in School (KGS) project funded by the World Bank recorded a 65 percent dropout rate of schoolgirls in 29 districts. And the Parliamentary Accounts Committee (PAC) has heard that there was a mismatch of beneficiaries in the database, a situation which led to the project...

LEADER of the opposition in Parliament Brian Mundubile says the premature arrests and announcements about perceived corruption cases have destroyed families. Addressing the media at Parliament, Tuesday, Mundubile said the fight against corruption had turned into political persecution. "There is no fight against corruption, there is just political persecution. You don't fight corruption loudly. If...

ATTORNEY General Mulilo Kabesha is seeking permission in the Lusaka High Court to commence contempt proceedings against PF's Raphael Nakacinda over his remarks in which he accused President Hakainde Hichilema of summoning judges to his house. Kabesha wants Nakacinda to show cause why he must not be sent to prison for contempt of court, arguing...

THE Lusaka Magistrates' Court has sentenced a 23-year-old man to 12 months imprisonment for breaking into his mother's house and stealing a television set, a phone and a chitenge. In this matter, Adamson Phiri was facing one count of burglary and theft. Particulars of the offence alleged that Phiri on November 6, 2021, with intent...

VICE-PRESIDENT Mutale Nalumango says government is looking at the laws in order to reduce by-elections. But Leader of the Opposition in Parliament Brian Mundubile says the UPND government has an insatiable appetite for by-elections as demonstrated by the many election petitions. Debating Head 05 for the Electoral Commission of Zambia (ECZ) in Parliament, Tuesday, Vice-President...

MANSA Central PF member of parliament Dr Chitalu Chilufya says no reason was cited in his dismissal letter as health minister by then president Edgar Lungu. And Dr Chilufya says the Ministry of Health did not procure any expired drugs and leaking condoms during his tenure. Meanwhile, Dr Chilufya says PF committed suicide with the...

CHIEF Government Spokesperson Chushi Kasanda says the freedom of expression which is being promoted by the UPND Alliance administration is not outside the provisions of the law. And Presidential Spokesperson Anthony Bwalya says no one must be allowed to transgress the boundaries of the law under the guise of freedom of speech. On Monday, PF...