A CORONER has returned a closed verdict, indicating that the 42-year-old woman who died at a Catholic priest's house in Lusaka's Kaunda Square died of natural causes. Delivering a verdict, Monday, Coroner Judith Chiyaika said Monica Mulenga died of natural causes due to sudden cardiac arrest. "I was aided by the doctor from Levy Teaching...

KWACHA Constituency UPND losing candidate Charles Mulenga has submitted to the Lusaka High Court that he only spoke about former Foreign Affairs Minister Joseph Malanji's issue of not having a grade 12 certificate in court and at the police station. In his defence, Mulenga stated that the only thing he did was to report Malanji...

GIVEN Lubinda Foundation Limited has sued Kamwala UPND ward councilor Mainda Simataa in the Lusaka High Court over a portion of land in the area. Simataa recently reported former Justice Minister Given Lubinda, who is also former Kabwata PF member of parliament, and another to the Anti-Corruption Commission for allegedly being in possession of a...

FORMER Lusaka Province minister Bowman Lusambo has urged the Constitutional Court to set aside the Ndola High Court's decision to nullify his Kabushi parliamentary seat. Lusambo has asked the court to instead uphold his election as Kabushi PF member of parliament as declared by the Electoral Commission of Zambia ( ECZ). But UPND losing candidate...

THE Constitutional Court has refused to allow former Foreign Affairs Minister Joseph Malanji to produce his grade 12 certificate as evidence in a matter in which he is challenging the nullification of his Kwacha parliamentary seat. The court has ruled that Malanji's notice of motion in which he was seeking an order to produce his...

FORMER president Edgar Lungu's press aide Amos Chanda and two others have asked the Lusaka Magistrates' Court to acquit them in a matter in which they are accused of using insulting language and obstructing Anti-Corruption Commission officers. Chanda, his wife Mable and sister-in-law Ruth Mulenga have submitted to the court that the State has not...

A SISTER to the Lusaka lawyer who poisoned her son and attempted to kill herself has sought an interim order that Namwene Kamoto Phiri be admitted to the care and supervision of the Chainama Hills College Hospital. In an affidavit in support of originating summons filed in the Lusaka High Court, Esther Phiri Ng'ambi revealed...

LUSAKA lawyer Nathaniel Inambao has been dragged to court by one of his clients who is demanding payment of USD14,000 which the counsel allegedly misappropriated. The said amount was awarded to Howard Cooke in one of the cases as damages and paid to him through his lawyer Inambao, but the defendant allegedly never remitted the...

THE Zambia Environmental Management Agency (ZEMA) has submitted to the Constitutional Court that mining activities can sustainably take place in the Lower Zambezi National Park in accordance with conditions of approval because the anticipated risks can be sufficiently mitigated. And ZEMA has submitted that public consultations were undertaken by Mwembeshi Resources Limited prior to the...

UPND Kamwala ward councilor Mainda Simataa has reported former Kabwata PF member of parliament Given Lubinda and another to the Anti-Corruption Commission for allegedly being in possession of a community play park in Kamwala, which is reasonably suspected to be a proceed of corruption. And ACC has confirmed receipt of the report, saying the contents...