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All Lusaka police reserves to be replaced with PF cadres and put on salary

Dear Editor, Recently the Lusaka Commissioner Solomon Jere announced that 500 Reserve Police officers in Lusaka to be retired starting from the top most senior staff in the rank and file. This has brought a lot of fear among the reserve wing who have not committed any offence or incompetence to be subjected to retirement [...]

The Eastern province town of Nyimba will soon experience an acute shortage of clean, drinking water as its only source,the Chikuyu Dam is reportedly only remaining with three weeks of stock while efforts to get government attention have proven futile since January. According to Eastern Water and sewerage company (EWSC) Managing Director Wamuwi Changani, the company is left with no [...]

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Mealie  meal prices across the country have gone up, according to Muvi tv news survey monitored this evening. The increase in the mealie meal prices and other essential commodities comes against the backdrop of the recently revised minimum wage that was imposed by the PF government through a statutory instrument decree by Labour Minister, Fackson [...]

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The headqaurters for opposition UPND in Lusaka was by 17 hours local time on Monday surrounded by heavily armed police officers. Police told the Watchdog that the police were looking for seditious materials. But police sources also say there was a plot to plant the documents at the oppoistion party secretariat during the same operation. The police were [...]

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MEDIA STATEMENT Now that Mr. Hakainde Hichilema- the chief Apostle of bitterness and tribalism- fully knows that he holds no chance in hell to win an election in Zambia, he has declared a fight against a duly elected Government and President Michael Chilufya Sata in particular. We only hope that the UPND leader has calculated [...]

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The Board of Mulungushi University has appointed Hellicy Ng’ambi, who becomes its first female Vice Chancellor with effect from September 1st 2012. Prior to her appointment, Professor Ng’ambi was the Executive Dean of the College of Economic and Management Sciences at the University of South Africa (UNISA) from 2009 to August 2012, a position held [...]

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At a time the PF government is blaming online publications, particularly the Zambian Watchdog for spreading ‘alarming and false’ information, Defence Minister, Geoffrey Bwalya Mwamba (GBM) has continued with his alarming statement that there was a plot to assassinate President Michael Sata. GBM, who is one of the people currently campaigning to replace President Sata, [...]

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Ceremonial vice-president Guy Scott is expected in Iran  to represent president Michael Sata at the 16th summit of heads of state and government of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM). Iran President  Mahmoud Ahmadi Nejad will open the summit which has attracted heads of state from all the 120 member states including Zambia. It is not known why [...]

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UNITED Nations World Tourism Organisation inspectors are expected for a third assessment of designated tourist facilities in Zambia and Zimbabwe as the final countdown to the August 24-31 2013, general assembly gathers momentum. In an interview yesterday Zimbabwe Tourism Authority chief executive Mr Karikoga Kaseke said the inspectors will jet into Zambia today. They would [...]

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According to a report from the Sunday Monitor, a man stole a mobile phone from a patient in an isolation ward at Kagadi Hospital, in Western Uganda. As it turns out, the patient was suffering from Ebola, one of numerous cases in a recent outbreak in Uganda. The patient later died from the hemorrhagic fever. But [...]

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