Police in Lusaka have detained Mopani Copper Mines CEO Nathan Bullock after he attempted to leave the country through Kenneth Kaunda International Airport. Immigration sources confirmed the development, saying Bullock was nabbed before he could board his flight to Australia. “Yes, he has been arrested. He was supposed to travel to Australia. We are told...

THE CURRENT University of Zambia management team is incompetent, wasteful, extravagant and lacking in vision, says UNZALARU. And UNZALARU says it is disheartening that the university management’s statement which dismissed a Diggers story as being false and malicious did not provide any responses to critical issues raised in the audit which was carried out. Recently,...

GOVERNMENT has written to Mopani Copper Mines chief executive officer Nathan Bullock informing him of its intentions to revoke mining license for its two units in Kitwe and Mufulira. According to impeccable sources at the Ministry of Mines, this is in retaliation to the mining giant's decision to defy government's directive and placing its Nkana...

A University of Zambia operational performance review audit for the financial year ended 2018 has revealed that the University of Zambia owes over K621 million in respect of terminal benefits, gratuities, and leave days to 2,815 officers that had either retired or were still in employment as of August 2019. Meanwhile, the report has revealed...

AN AUDIT Report for the financial year ended 2018 has revealed that the University of Zambia owes ZRA, NAPSA and Workers Compensation over K2.8 billion in statutory obligations. And the report has revealed that there were 30,657 favourable changes to student results without supporting documentation in 2018. Meanwhile, the audit report has revealed that UNZA...

CHAPTER One Foundation executive director Linda Kaosnde says the provisions of the Disaster Management Act are enough to address the Covid-19 pandemic without having to declare a State of Emergency. Reacting to public calls for President Edgar Lungu to declare a national state of emergency, Kasonde in a statement which was streamed live on her...

Southern Africa Human Rights Defenders Network (SAHRDN) has called on the Judiciary in Zambia to stop persecuting human rights defenders, and has demanded the immediate reinstatement of State Counsel John Sangwa who was barred from appearing in any court of law in the country. In a letter dated 13th March 2020, the Acting Chief Registrar...

JUSTICE Minister Given Lubinda says the adjournment of Parliament is a God-given opportunity for the entire Cabinet to go out and vigorously campaign for Constitution Amendment Bill number 10 of 2019. And Lubinda says the media should not to give unnecessary credit to former Minister of Commerce, Trade and Industry Dipak Patel by suggesting that...

THE United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Independence of Judges & Lawyers Diego García-Sayán has strongly condemned the Zambian Judiciary's move to bar Constitutional Lawyer John Sangwa State Counsel from appearing before any court. On Friday, the Judiciary barred Sangwa from appearing before any court in Zambia pending determination of its complaint against him to...

THE Judiciary has barred Constitutional Lawyer John Sangwa from appearing before any court in Zambia pending determination of its complaint against him to the Law Association of Zambia.  In a notice to all judges of the Supreme Court, Constitutional Court, Court of Appeal, High Court, Registrars and Magistrates today, Acting Registrar Prince Mwiinga announced that...