Justice Florence Mumba resigns as ECZ chair
Electoral Commission of Zambia (ECZ) chairperson Justice Florence Mumba has resigned. The Watchdog understands that Justice Mumba wrote a letter of resignation to president Rupia Banda today, Thursday morning. The letter was delivered to Sstate House in nthe morning but it would appear that president Banda had already left State House for the Copperbelt. He [...]
The Central statistical Office (CSO) preliminary results of the 2010 census population indicate that the country’s population has increased to thirteen million forty six thousand five hundred and eight from nine million eight hundred persons and eighty eight five thousand seven hundred and seventy seven recorded in the 2000 census of population. The statistics further [...]
Continue reading …President Rupiah Banda says problems at the Electoral Commission of Zambia-ECZ are saddening. The President says the situation at ECZ House is regrettable as 2011 is an election year. He says ECZ needs to ensure harmony and tranquility as the country prepares for the polls. The President was responding to questions from journalists at Lusaka [...]
Continue reading …Over Four hundred [400] female Grade Seven pupils did not write their final examinations in Kalabo district in Western Province last year. Education Standards Officer [ESO] General Inspector Keith Inambao who disclosed this during the first stakeholders meeting on Gender in Development held in the Council chamber in Kalabo yesterday described the situation as very serious. [...]
Continue reading …UN Resident Coordinator in Zambia Kanni Wignaraja Zambia should demonstrate to the world that it will always vote on the side of peace and tolerance. In her message to mark the world holocaust day which falls today Wignaraja, the freedoms from want and the freedom from fear are still far from being realized in many parts [...]
Continue reading …The United Party for National Development (UPND)has rubbished the prediction poll by the standard bank stating that MMD will emerge victorious in this year’s general elections with President Rupiah Banda at the helm. The bank has also said Zambia’s current investment-led economic boom would be sustained despite the general elections the country would hold this [...]
Continue reading …POLICE in Ndola have opened a docket for Patriotic Front (PF) Fibobe Ward Councillor Jones Kalyati who yesterday threatened to “deal with” Times of Zambia reporters for exposing corrupt practices in the allocation of plots at Ndola City Council. And Copperbelt Province police chief, Martin Malama has warned that police would not sit idle [...]
Continue reading …Frustrated by chronic shortages of US dollar banknotes and South African rand in small denominations, residents and retailers in the northern Zimbabwean resort town of Kariba have started using the Zambian kwacha for change instead of candies or vouchers. Small bills and change are in short supply nationwide, hampering consumers, retailers and street vendors, but [...]
Continue reading …PRESSURE is mounting on Electoral Commission of Zambia (ECZ) chairperson Florence Mumba to resign and pave way for investigations following allegations that she is involved in a procurement scandal. And the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has received a formal complaint from concerned organisations and citizens on allegations levelled against the ECZ chairperson. ACC corporate affairs officer [...]
Continue reading …TREASON accused Maxwell Mututwa was on January 26 released from prison when the State entered a nolle prosequi in his favour. Lusaka principal resident magistrate Sharon Newa discharged Mr Mututwa, 92, after divisional prosecutions officer Mwewa Musonda told the court that the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) has entered a nolle prosequi in Mututwa’s case. [...]
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