ON WEDNESDAY last week, the Anti-Corruption Commission announced that it was investigating allegations of abuse of office at the Ministry of Finance involving senior officials linked to a cartel that siphoned huge amounts of money between 2019 and 2021 using fictitious events to draw allowances. Over K100 million was reportedly drawn from the treasury accounts...

FORMER president Edgar Lungu had a wonderful day yesterday. The cover story was that Mr Lungu and his wife came out to give moral support to their son Dalitso who is, not under arrest, but pushing for the release of his seized company assets. With this cover story, the former president engaged in some interesting...

CHAPTER One Foundation in partnership with Open Spaces Zambia, fhi360 and Internews under the sponsorship of USAID, has launched the media defence fund to protect journalists from legal intimidation and harassment. The goal of the media legal defence fund is to create and strengthen an enabling environment for independent journalism to flourish. It means, going...

IT IS good that renowned Lusaka businessman Diego Casilli has put it on record that he has no plans of using his close relationship with President Hakainde Hichilema to engage in state capture. It is good to hear his assurance that he has no agenda of defrauding the Zambian people. According to him, he is...

ON SATURDAY last week, President Hakainde Hichilema attended a high profile religious event at Heroes Stadium in Lusaka which was graced by the visiting global leader of the Seventh Day Adventist Church. The programme went pretty well as people filled the stadium to capacity. After the programme, President Hichilema took off his jacket and decided...

WE totally agree with Her Honour the Vice-President, madam Mutale Nalumango who says it is better for UPND to rule even for a single term, as long as it leaves behind a positive footprint for development. Speaking when she featured on Radio Phoenix’s Let The People Talk programme, Friday, Vice-President Nalumango said the new dawn...

MINISTER of Agriculture Mtolo Phiri says government has completed the distribution of fertiliser under the Farmer Input Support Programme for the 2022/2023 farming season. Honourable Phiri says as at January 26, 2023, his ministry had distributed 99.88 percent of inputs. He further says the farmers are also winding up with their redeeming exercise where they...

THE Corruption Perception Index is out. Our conclusion is simple, there is an aggressive anti-corruption talk in Zambia, but not really an anti-corruption fight. In terms of corrupt actors and their activities, nothing much has changed. In terms of aggression from law enforcement agencies, there has been zero improvement. According to Transparency International, Zambia has...

ON Monday, the Patriotic Front suspended Matero Member of Parliament Miles Sampa for issuing a statement that is “in extreme bad taste". Acting president Given Lubinda announced the suspension of Sampa from the party's central committee for a period of six weeks, stressing that the Matero member of parliament is henceforth prohibited from making any...

ONCE again, social media has been lit by yet another controversial statement from a top government official. Her Honour the Vice-President, madam Mutale Nalumango has taken a bashing from netizens after she urged underprivileged Zambians who cannot afford to buy breakfast mealie meal to consider roller meal which she says is not only cheaper but...