GERMAN Ambassador to Zambia Anne Wagner-Mitchell has advised law enforcement agencies to stick to the law and only arrest if there is enough credible evidence for a charge. And Minister of Information and Media Chushi Kasanda says members of the public should be responsible in the use of online platforms to avoid conflict with the...

PRESIDENTIAL Spokesperson Anthony Bwalya says the removal of fuel and electricity subsidies will have a slight impact on the cost of living but the UPND government has put in place measures to mitigate that. Speaking during Phoenix FM's Good Morning Zambia breakfast show, Monday, Bwalya said if there would be an increase in commodity prices...

THE Lusaka High Court has sentenced a bricklayer of Lusaka’s Chamba Valley area to 50 years imprisonment with hard labour for sexually abusing three girls and attempting to defile another. Joseph Winga, 35, was convicted by the Lusaka Magistrates' Court earlier this year and committed to the High Court for sentencing. Lusaka Magistrate Faides Hamaundu...

UPND losing candidates for Matero and Kamfinsa constituencies have challenged the High Court’s decision to uphold the election of PF’s Miles Sampa and Christopher Kang'ombe, respectively. According to a memorandum of appeal filed in the Constitutional Court, Matero UPND losing candidate Tom Michelo has argued that the court erred in both law and fact when...

THE Lusaka Magistrates' court has sentenced a 46-year-old businesswoman to six years simple imprisonment for being in possession of six pieces of elephant ivory without lawful authority. This is a matter in which Dorcas Nyondo of Lusaka was charged with one count of unlawful possession of a wildlife trophy. Particulars of the offence were that...

ATTORNEY General Mulilo Kabesha has filed a notice of motion for an order of committal proceedings against Raphael Nakacinda in the Lusaka High Court. Kabesha is seeking an order to commit Nakacinda to prison for deliberately and willfully bringing the judiciary in disrepute for the false, malicious and contemptuous words uttered by him on December...

THIS economy is so shattered that to correct it, we have to go through a bit of fire to heaven because the money is not in the government treasury but in people’s pockets, says UPND Secretary General Batuke Imenda. And Imenda says over 20 people in the party have expressed interest to participate in the...