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The Supreme Court has adjourned indefinitely the case in which it is supposed to hear a judicial review involving the three judges suspend by president Michael Sata in April this year. The matter could not take off as some supreme court Justices were not present due to illness. The matter has been adjourned indefinitely, that [...]

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Dear Sir, For many years the Zambian people and all the previous governments have rejected the selling or planting of genetically modified food staffs in Zambia. Genetically modified foods may have very serious long term effects on humans because of the unpredictable dangers of gene manipulation. In Zambia genetically modified foods are not necessary and [...]

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Fire and arrest GBM, Mr. President, Michael Sata. I have written this open letter to you so that in future I will reproduce it and say ‘I warned you’.  Could you please fire defense minister Geoffrey Mwamba and then subject him to criminal prosecution for his ‘assassination plot’ lies. He is not only a threat [...]

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After failing to gain entry to the UPND headquarters Monday afternoon, heavily armed  police returned to the opposition  camp by 05 hours Tuesday morning. UPND spokesperson Charles Kakoma confirmed that over 100 police officers had surrounded the party secretariat before any employ could get there this morning. Police have also have also closed Lagos Road and are restricting entry to the opposition party [...]

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The Zambian Kwacha has been steadily losing ground against major currencies and is about to reach K5000 against one US Dollar. Starting from late July upto early August, the Kwacha appreaciated to trading around K4800 to one USD. But this appreciation was due to political and not economic measures. The PF regime introduced the statutory [...]

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Desperation and working under pressure from instructions yesterday made the PF police rush to opposition UPND headquarters looking for property stolen from UPND but with a legal warranty that had no physical address. The police, with a wrong search warranty document could not explain how property stolen from UPND could be at UPND offices. UPND [...]

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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 [...]

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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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