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Dear Editor, In 1997 as a senior cell leader at victory church while attending church service, Dr. Mumba announced he was forming National Christian Coalition to sensitise and encourage christians to go into politics and few days later, he addressed us and we asked him how he would field candidates since it was not a [...]

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President Michael Sata arrived Wednesday afternoon in the Angolan capital Luanda to participate, from 31 May to 1 June, at the Extraordinary Summit of Heads of State and Government of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Sata was welcomed at the 4 de Fevereiro International Airport by Angola  foreign minister, Georges Chicoty, Zambia’s ambassador accredited to [...]

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Health Centre in Lukulu and Kalabo districts in Western Province have been hit by critical a critical shortage of staff leading to clinics being manned by cleaners and Environment Health Technicians. And 12 women have died in the recent past due to maternal complications. The situation is worse in Lukulu West Liuwa areas which lie across [...]

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United Party for National Development (UPND) President Hakainde Hichilema says president Micheal  Sata should shoulder the blame for the death of the nine job seekers who died in Mpulungu. Recently nine  people died while dozens others are in a critical condition after a stampede related incident ensued while trying to get a job at Great [...]

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Former Energy Minister Kenneth Konga  this  morning collapsed as he was being interrogated by the joint investigative wings at the reconstistuted Task Force on Corrupution in Lusaka’s Woodlands area. Sources within the MMD say the former minister may actually have suffered from a stroke. MMD President Nevers Mumba has confirmed this to ZNBC News. Dr. [...]

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Chaotic travel arrangements for the Zambia National Soccer team to Sudan may affect the team’s performance in Khartoum ahead of this Saturday’s World Cup qualifier. The Watchdog understands that barely a few hours before the scheduled departure, the Football Association of Zambia (FAZ) and the Zambian government yet to decide the travel formula for the [...]

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By Laura Miti And then we had the draft Republican Constitution! Very welcome it is too. What a huge document though. Am I the only one thinking the Technical Committee was a little too verbose in writing this draft-they seemed to routinely use 4 clauses where one would suffice trying so hard to cover all [...]

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The Special Court for Sierra Leone has sentenced former Liberian president Charles Taylor to 50 years behind bars for war crimes and crimes against humanity. The sentence was handed down on Wednesday in The Hague. The judge said that Taylor, also a former warlord, used his position to aid and abet rebels rather than to [...]

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Lovemore Chikopa, the Malawian citizen president Michael Sata imported to chair a tribunal set up to probe three judges, will for now remain in Zambia despite a stay granted by the courts against the proceedings, according to the government controlled Times of Zambia. Chikopa is staying at the five star Pamodzi hotel with tight security [...]

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