FDD leader Edith Nawakwi has appeared in the Lusaka Magistrates' Court and denied interfering in the affairs of her late husband Geoffrey Hambulo's estate. Nawakwi appeared before magistrate Nthandose Chabala where she pleaded not guilty to the charge of intermeddling. In this matter, one of the six children of the late Hambulo has lodged a...

THE state has submitted to the Lusaka High Court that the Drug Enforcement Commission (DEC) director general has power to enter, search and seize any articles relevant to an investigation. The state further argues that the power to enter, search and seize any article relevant to an investigation is exercised after issuance of a legitimate...

HIGH Court judge Sunday Nkonde has dragged the State to court over the Judicial Complaint Commission's decision to proceed to reopen a complaint lodged against him by Post Newspaper proprietor Dr Fred M'membe in 2017, disregarding the ruling by Lusaka High Court judge in charge Gertrude Chawatama. Judge Nkonde, who has cited the Attorney General...

FIVE Lusaka men have been dragged to court for allegedly abducting a person. In this matter, Clement Lupiya, Dafren Mawelela, Frank Tembo, Sydney Mukonda and Braison Katete of Lusaka are facing a charge of kidnapping with intent to confine a person. It is alleged that on January 9, 2022 in Lusaka, the five jointly and...

LUSAKA businessman Prince Siame and another have submitted before the Lusaka High Court that President Hakainde Hichilema should have applied to be removed from the proceedings in which the duo wants the court to declare UPND bankrupt over K400,000 debt. Siame and Prospect Tech Limited have argued that the proper application the defendants should have...

KONKOLA Copper Mines (KCM) Provisional Liquidator Milingo Lungu yesterday appeared in the Lusaka Magistrates' Court on six new charges of theft and money laundering involving K17,250,000. Lungu, who is also facing another theft and money laundering case involving K4.4 million, was arrested by the Drug Enforcement Commission (DEC) for the second time in December last...

THE Constitutional Court has dismissed preliminary issues raised by Kwacha PF member of parliament Joseph Malanji in the case involving the nullification of his seat. Malanji was seeking, among others, an interpretation on whether or not an MP whose seat is nullified by the High Court and has appealed, should attend parliamentary sittings before the...

FORMER Zambia Police Copperbelt Province deputy commissioner Bothwell Namuswa has appeared in the Lusaka Magistrates' Court on a charge of causing grievous harm with intent to maim, disfigure or disable. Namuswa, 49, is alleged to have shot at a UPND supporter, Peter Masani, in 2016 at the Lusaka High Court and the victim is alleged...

FDD leader Edith Nawakwi has insisted before the Lusaka High Court that she is late Geoffrey Hambulo's widow and therefore a beneficiary of his estate. This is a matter in which Nawakwi has sued two of her step-children Mweemba and Mulundu Hambulo in the Lusaka High Court, seeking among others, an order to revoke the...

THE Lusaka High Court has adjourned hearing for all applications relating to a matter in which former president Edgar Lungu’s barber, Shebby Chilekwa, wants the court to summon police to show cause as to why they have continued detaining him, to today. The state recently asked Lusaka High Court judge Mwape Bowa to review or...