WITH only a day left before the kick off of the 2022/2023 MTN Super League, Green Eagles Coach Aggrey Chiyangi says the team will go all-out to challenge for the title and qualify for continental football. Meanwhile Chiyangi says there is need for the team to up its scoring ratio in order to attain the...

FORMER health minister Dr Chitalu Chilufya's lawyer, Tutwa Ngulube, says the Joint Investigation Team (JIT) was embarrassed after failing to find anything incriminating during their search, vowing that they will hit back in a legal way. And Ngulube says JIT is operating illegally because there is no act of Parliament which sanctioned it to start...

GOVERNANCE Activist Rueben Lifuka says the scale of properties purportedly owned by former president Edgar Lungu's economic advisor Hibeene Mwiinga goes way beyond a Special Assistant's annual salary, which in 2018 stood at around K414,000. The Anti-Corruption Commission recently arrested and charged Mwiinga for possession of property valued at over K41 million and cash amounting...

THE Drug Enforcement Commission (DEC) says it has instituted investigations into the National Housing Empowerment Fund (NHEF) Riverdale land scandal. In early 2020, over 2,000 people rushed to secure land in NHEF’s Riverdale City Estate, which the company advertised to be only 17 kilometres from Crossroads Mall. The clients secured various sized portions of land...

VICE-PRESIDENT Mutale Nalumango says there is need to invest in children because the country's future lies in them. And African Child Policy Forum Executive Director Dr Joan Nyanyuki says Zambia ranks 37 out of 52 countries which have made progress in programmes that protect children from violence, abuse, among other vices. Speaking during the National...

THE State has asked the Lusaka High Court to set aside the default judgement granted to Lusaka lawyer Martha Mushipe in a matter in which she is demanding compensation of K1.5 million for pain and suffering caused by her alleged false imprisonment in 2016. Agness Msiska-Lungu, an assistant State advocate, has submitted that the State...

COMMUNITY Development and Social Services Minister Doreen Mwamba says the social cash transfer disbursement happening in Kabushi constituency is part of the routine payment schedule and not linked to any campaigns. The Patriotic Front recently posted on its official Facebook page about government continuing to distribute social cash transfer funds in Kabushi and Kwacha constituencies...

AUDITOR General Dr Dick Sichembe says existence of effective public oversight institutions becomes vital to the development of society when public resources are mismanaged through corruption. And Dr Sichembe says very little can be achieved in scrutinising public resources without the help of CSOs. Speaking during the Office of the Auditor General and Civil Society...

THE Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (CCPC) has fined Levy Mwanawasa Medical University 0.5 percent of its annual turnover for failing to award degrees to clinical science students for the period 2016 to 2019. And the commission has fined three entities for tying and bundling low-demand clear beer products with high-demand products. According to a...

FORMER Kabushi PF member of parliament Bowman Lusambo has written to the Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International and various western embassies in Zambia, asking them to intervene over what he terms as human rights abuse by the government. And Lusambo says people of Kabushi have told him not to dish out any money during campaigns...