Fashion Sakala has revealed that he hid his knee injury from the teams’ medical staff during Zambia’s 3-1 loss to Nigeria at the U23 AfCON finals on Monday. The winger who has been ruled out for the rest of the competition says he could not leave the pitch after only two minutes of play, and...

Mufumbwe UPND member of parliament Eliot Kamondo has asked the Constitutional Court to dismiss Steven Masumba's election petition appeal saying the electorates voted freely without intimidation. In this matter, Masumba of the ruling Patriotic Front had challenged Kamondo's election in the High Court but he lost the petition. Masumba then challenged the loss in the...

Chilanga member of Parliament Keith Mukata's lover Charmaine Musonda today attracted attention at the Lusaka Magistrates' Court when she arrived on a wheelchair, covered by a chitenge material. Charmaine, who was brought straight from the hospital with a canular still on her hand, attracted the attention of onlookers when she hid her face with a...

High Court judge Sunday Nkonde has thrown out an application by the Law Association of Zambia to join Post Newspaper liquidation case, describing the application as lacking merit. Judge Nkonde in his ruling said the application by LAZ to join proceedings as amicus curiae might just delay the disposal of the proceedings to the prejudice...

UPP leader Saviour Chishimba says Zambia Revenue Authority's decision to sue him over alleged malicious falsehoods and the injunction obtained is intended to muffle freedom of expression. ZRA sued the United Progressive Party in the Lusaka High Court claiming K100 billion for malicious falsehoods relating to a tender that ZRA is alleged to have been...

LUSAKA magistrate Greenwell Malumani has refused to quash a personation charge slapped on Nchima Nchito State Counsel advising the latter to appeal to the High Court if unsatisfied. Nchima is accused of personating as an advocate for Post Newspapers Limited. The case was commenced as a way of complaint by a former Post employee Abel...

Lusaka High Court judge in charge Gertrude Chawatama has dismissed Hakainde  Hichilema's application for habeas corpus saying it is the role of the trial court to establish the validity of the charges. "At this stage this court cannot pronounce itself on the validity of the charges," she ruled.  Habeas Corpus proceedings according to judge Chawatama...

Lusaka High Court judge Sharon Newa says Precious Longwe purposefully shot her husband three times last year. And Precious maintained her composure throughout the two-hour long judgment which ultimately sentenced her to death; not shedding a single tear. Delivering judgment in a matter in which Precious was alleged to have murdered her husband Lubinda Litebele...

Precious Longwe has been sentenced to death by hanging for murdering her husband last year. Details later

UPND leader Hakainde Hichilema has insisted that Lusaka High Court judge Mwila Chitabo should recuse himself from presiding over his election petition for lack of impartiality. Yesterday, Attorney General Likando Kalaluka's submitted that there was no need for the judge to recuse himself because there was no basis for the application. But when the matter...

Police Assistant Superintendent Mpazi Mbita says police took long to charge UPND president Hakainde Hichilema because his lawyer demanded that the exercise be carried out in the presence of other defense lawyers who were not present at the time. In an affidavit in opposition of an ex-parte notice of motion for writ of Habeas Corpus,...

Detained UPND leader Hakainde Hichilema has submitted before Lusaka High Court judge-in charge Getrude Chawamtama that he has been put in detention without a charge after police officers stole colossal sums of money at his house in New Kasama area. HH has since asked judge Chawamtama to compel the officer in charge at Lilayi Police...

Renowned UPND youth, Innocent Kalimanshi who was arrested during failed rally in Lusaka's Kanyama compound over a week ago, has been granted K8,000 cash bail. Kalimanshi appeared before Lusaka resident magistrate Brian Simachela and pleaded not guilty to a charge of conduct likely to cause the breach of peace. Magistrate Simachela granted the accused K8,000...

Attorney General Likando Kalaluka has opposed UPND leader Hakainde Hichilema’s application for Lusaka High Court judge Mwila Chitabo to recuse himself from presiding over his presidential petition case; describing the application as baseless. In an oral response to the application, Kalaluka noted that the petitioners, HH and Geoffrey Bwalya Mwamba, had not exhibited any grounds...

A female pastor of Rainbow Church and Music Ministries in Lusaka’s Chawama Township has asked the High Court to dissolve her seven-month old marriage to a fellow pastor on grounds that there is no sexual intercourse in their home. In her petition for the nullification of marriage, Mary Moyo complained that she only found out...

SPEAKER of the National Assembly Patrick Matibini has contended that there is nothing irrational about his decision reprimand 54 UPND members of parliament for boycotting official opening of Parliament last September. In a High-Court filed affidavit signed by deputy clerk- Administration of the National Assembly of Zambia Cecilia Nsenduluka Mbewe, the Speaker opposed the application...

The Zambia Revenue Authority has obtained an injunction restraining the United Progressive Party from issuing any more statements on corruption allegations against the authority. According to an exparte order of interim injuction signed by Lusaka High Court judge Annesie Banda-Bobo today, the UPP is retrained from publishing or broadcasting or causing to be broadcast malicious...

The Lusaka High Court is this Thursday April 6 scheduled to hear an application by Law Association of Zambia to join proceedings in the Post liquidation case. In this matter, five former Post Newspaper Limited employees and ZRA are seeking to liquidate the company and judge Sunday Nkonde, who is presiding over the matter, appointed...

Lusaka lawyer Kelvin Bwalya Fube has joined the prosecution team in a matter in which State Counsel Nchima Nchito is charged with personating a Post official. KBF quickly stood to address magistrate Greenwell Malumani today before the case was even be called and said he was not ready to proceed because he had not received...