FOREIGN Affairs Deputy Minister Effron Lungu has taken up Given Lubinda’s seat in Parliament following the departure of the Foreign Affairs Minister to the back bench. Dr Lungu, who is also Chama South Patriotic Front (PF) member of Parliament, sat on the seat reserved for the Foreign Affairs minister throughout Parliamentary proceedings yesterday. Mr Lubinda… Read More »

PRESIDENT Michael Sata says former Republican President Rupiah Banda, MMD leader Nevers Mumba and his UPND counterpart Hakainde Hichilema travelled to South Africa to seek asylum but were snubbed by that government. Mr Sata has since challenged Mr Banda and the two opposition leaders to be brave enough and answer charges they are facing instead… Read More »

THE SAGA in which a morgue attendant locally known as a Malukula’ was arrested for allegedly stealing from the dead in the Post bus accident has sucked in an unlikely suspect—a male nurse at Liteta Hospital who also allegedly participated in the shocking theft. About 54 people perished in the road traffic accident last Thursday… Read More »

RUPIAH Banda is running away from crimes he has committed by going to the Commonwealth through his proxies, says information minister Kennedy Sakeni. And Sakeni has maintained that former president Banda and his former press aide, Dickson Jere, had travelled to South Africa almost at the same time as UPND’s Hakainde Hichilema and MMD’s Nevers… Read More »

THREE prisoners on death-row have staged a movie-style escape from Mukobeko Maximum Security Prison in Kabwe for the first time in 30 years shattering the holding facility’s ‘impregnable’ record. The inmates, identified as Derrick Mwape, Shadrick Phiri and Barnard Kapaso, have baffled guards at the heavily fortified and guarded prison through this escape. Zambia Prisons… Read More »

PRESIDENT Michael Sata has appointed Itezhi Tezhi United Party for National Development (UPND) Member of Parliament (MP) Greyford Monde as Deputy Minister in the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock. Meanwhile, President Sata has swapped Commerce Minister Robert Sichinga with his Agriculture and Livestock counterpart Emmanuel Chenda. Mr Monde becomes the first UPND MP to be… Read More »

CHIEF government spokesperson Kennedy Sakeni has challenged former president Rupiah Banda to come out clean on yesterday’s press conference in Johannesburg, which opposition leaders Nevers Mumba, Hakainde Hichilema and Sakwiba Sikota held in Rosebank. And FDD president Edith Nawakwi has advised the opposition leaders to cool down and stick together since Zambia is still mourning… Read More »

Opposition United Party for National Development (UPND) leader Hakainde Hichilema says the summoning of former republican president Rupiah Banda for questioning only proves that the ruling Patriotic Front has no regard for the rule of law. Mr. Hichilema says it is funny how the Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) can go ahead and serve Mr. Banda… Read More »