President Michael Sata says the police should investigate more corruption among his cabinet members, but that the presidency is off limits for anti-corruption investigations. Sata made the comments when he swore in former Foreign Affairs permanent Secretary Peter Kasanga as Deputy Secretary to Cabinet, Dr. Muyenga Atanga as Permanent Secretary for Works and Supply, and former Lusaka [...]

Seven Patriotic Front (PF) members on Tuesday afternoon escaped death after the vehicle they were travelling in overturned three times following a tyre burst in Mufumbwe district in Northwestern Province. The incident happened when a Toyota Hilux registration number ABJ 944 driven by PF Copperbelt Youth Secretary Kabwe Chanda had a front right tyre burst [...]

The Lusaka High Court has given bail to a Zambian woman who was incarcerated by Magistrate Willie Banda for allegedly possessing more than one passport without authority. Rosemary Mwasakandu is the former wife of Kitwe based Senegalese businessman Abdoulaye Ndiaye commonly known as “Gounassi” Rosemary Mwasakandu has been staying with Gounassi in their various houses [...]

Opposition UPND leader Hakainde Hichilema will this afternoon address a series of meetings in Kasempa, North-Western Province on his way to beef-up campaigns for MMD candidate Stanford Mulusa in Mufwembwe bye-election. Mr. Hichilema who was recently in Petauke, Eastern province, travelled the whole night with his entourage to North-Western province to also strengthen the UPND [...]

There is what appears to be an attempt to protect and hide the owner of the house in which five people died while working on a sewer pipe in Ibex Hill in Lusaka. Police have so far questioned the owner of the private company that was working on the sewer line at the junction of [...]

Clement Andeleki’s wife Lilian Kaumbi who is a police officer has been appointed as first lady Christine Kaseba’s body guard. Sources have told the Watchdog that Lilian Kaumbi Andeleki has been rewarded because of her crooked husband’s ‘noise’ making against organisations that are critical of the PF government. Early this year, Andeleki attempted in vein [...]

A drunk Catholic Priest yesterday rammed into opposition Movement for Multiparty Democracy (MMD) president Pastor Nevers Mumba’s advance vehicle to Mufumbwe. The priest Gabriel Nyoni, who was driving a Nissan Hardbody registration number ABK 9486 rammed into the MMD Mitsubishi pajero after he misjudged the overtaking stretch around Kabangwe area in Lusaka. The priest who completely wrecked his vehicle [...]

Zambia security officials in the towns that border Malawi have in the past one week stepped  up measures aimed at arresting and or deporting any Malawian found with any offence no matter how small. Just last week, Zambia deported hundreds 600 Malawians and today three Malawians have been arrested and detained for buying paraffin in containers. Last week on [...]

The Ruling Patriotic Front is struggling to remove the deepening perception by most provinces that it is for Bembas only. The PF campaigns in the November 8; parliamentary bye-election in Mufumbwe has been dominated by issues of tribe other than development. Even the team sent to Mufumbwe to campaign has been carefully selected and does [...]

President Michael Sata is frustrated and with the pace at which road works on the newly launched Link Zambia 8000 project are progressing. Zanis reports that President Sata toured the project which was initially started by the MMD under formula 1 in Lusaka this morning to check on the progress that has been made so [...]