Oxfam Country Director Nellie Nyangwa says when the public financial and procurement systems are dysfunctional, high net worth individuals and corporates take advantage of the porous taxation system to deprive government tax, public resources are lost and it is the poor who pay the price. Ms Nyangwa said paradise paper like the Panama paper […]
By Fulman Mukobeko and Pamela Mulenga (President)Edgar Lungu is having sleepless nights about our growing popularity, United Party for National Development (UPND) torch-bearer Hakainde Hichilema has vowed. And a swift action from professional and alert police outside the Olympic Africa Centre stopped the PF cadres from disrupting the UPND card renewal exercise. Meanwhile, Hichilema fondly […]
By Fulman Mukobeko I am not a sleeping Matero MP, says Lloyd Mulenga Kaziya, as he threatens to deal with Zambians of Asian origins who have connived with corrupt council officers to encroach on government gazetted space through illegal extension of their plots close to the streets in Lusaka’s Emmasdale area. And Kaziya is […]
While Zambians are making fun of the sleeping Lusaka Mayor Wilson Kalumba’s pictures that is making rounds on social media, his city is getting more and more untidy. These are heaps of gabbage next to the unfinished building opposite the defunct Sternly Bar. If nothing is […]
Edgar Lungu is a selfless leader, says Zambian DNA Spokesperson Spuki Mulemwa. “Whilst it is evident that President Edgar Lungu is among the few leaders who have been ‘anointed’ by their predecessors, other leaders attempt to buy their way to power. The secret is that President Lungu’s conviction is selfless service to the people, […]
LAZ clears HH’s lawyer Gilbert Phiri The Law Association of Zambia has exonerated Lusaka lawyer Gilbert Phiri from the Judiciary’s complaints regarding Facebook postings attributed to him in which he commented on the treason trial. And LAZ says Phiri can now appear before any court of law. On April 11, the Judiciary […]
Roan lawmaker Chishimba Kambwili has kept his promise of exposing corrupt activities in the Ministry of Health. A fortnight ago, Kambwili said he would expose the alleged corrupt activities in the Ministry of Health. This was after a wrangle with Dr Chitalu Chilufya over the point of order he raised in Parliament on […]
President Lungu’s revelations and criticism against Judges has not broken any law and must be viewed as a demand for the independence, dignity and effectiveness of the Judiciary, Says The Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI) Governance Advisor Isaac Mwanza. And YALI says, while, like many other actors, values the independence of the judiciary, it also […]
The Non-Governmental Organisations Coordinating Council (NGOCC) Chairperson Sara Hlupekile Longwe condemns in the strongest terms the intimidating statement attributed to President Edgar Lungu against the ConCourt judges. ” In this statement, made while addressing his political party members in Solwezi on Thursday, 2nd November 2017, the President presumed to instruct ConCourt on how it […]
If I were (President) Edgar Lungu, I would start mending my relationship with the people I have offended, United Party for National Development (UPND) leader Hakainde Hichilema has said. And Hichilema says it is utter ignorance by Justice Minister Given Lubinda to think of confiscating his passport in an effort to curtail him […]