A 42-YEAR-OLD businesswoman, who is in court for trafficking cocaine, says she uses the narcotic drug to relieve the stress of having a blind child. Joyce Phiri of Lusaka’s Kalingalinga area readily admitted the charge...

UNIVERSITY Teaching Hospital (UTH) Human Resource Manager Seliya Mwale has told the Lusaka Magistrates’ Court that the 25-year-old medical student who is alleged to have personated a doctor is neither a hospital staff nor a...

CHIEF Justice of Uganda Alfonse Owiny-Dollo has encouraged Zambia to scale up its use of Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) mechanisms in criminal cases. And Chief Justice Dr Mumba Malila says the integration of ADR in...

A 28-YEAR-OLD IT technician of Libala South has been dragged to the Lusaka Magistrates’ Court for allegedly stealing a Hiace bus. Clement Njala is facing one count of theft of a motor vehicle Contrary to...

THE Economic and Financial Crimes Court says it will hear former Kabushi PF MP Bowman Lusambo’s renewed application for bail pending appeal on January 8, 2025. On November 8, 2024, the Lusaka Magistrates’ Court sentenced...

HEALTH Minister Dr Elijah Muchima has revealed that the ministry has recorded the fourth Mpox case in Kitwe involving a 1-year-and-7-month-old boy. Meanwhile, Dr Muchima says recent claims suggesting the presence of 13 new cholera...

THE Lusaka High Court has granted Mines Minister Paul Kabuswe leave to commence defamation proceedings against Matero PF MP Miles Sampa. Kabuswe had asked the High Court for leave to file originating process against Sampa...

THE Lusaka Magistrates’ Court has sentenced a 29-year-old man of Kaunda Square Stage Two to 12 months imprisonment with hard labour for stealing his grandmother’s television set. In this matter, James Zimba was facing one...

FORMER Kabushi PF MP Bowman Lusambo has asked the Economic and Financial Crimes Court, High Court Division, to grant him bail pending his appeal against a four-year sentence. Lusambo has told the court that he...

ECONOMIST Bright Chizonde says the Kwacha depreciated towards the end of December, 2024, due to increased importation of consumption goods. Chizonde adds that as the year begins and citizens run out of disposable income, they...