It has now been confirmed that ailing dictator Michael Sata has revoked the appointment of Ben Phiri as Luapula Province Permanent Secretary. This is according to a statement released in Lusaka yesterday by  Sata’s mouth-piece George Chellah. Comedian Phiri was sworn-in last week on Friday during a ceremony at State House. In a statement released [...]

Students at Mulungushi University, the country’s third public university, have joined in calling for government to reverse its decision to remove the fuel and maize subsidies. Speaking through their union leader Lengwe Bwalya, the students said the move by the government would raise the cost of living for ordinary citizens. Bwalya said for an institution [...]

Lusaka – A decision by Zambia’s president to slash a key food subsidy threatens to hit the poor, stoke inflation and spark a popular revolt against his government,  according to an analysis by Agence France-Presse (AFP) one of the two biggest news agencies in the World. Earlier this week Michael Sata tore up his own populist [...]

University of Zambia Great East Road campus students are running battles with police demonstrating against the removal of fuel and maize subsidies. Police have since closed the Great East Road from Arcades Round about to Munali Round about to try and clear the rioting students forcing motorists to use alternative routes. The students talked to [...]

Dear editor, Withold my identity as a request. Kindly allow me space in your publication to air my few views on the planned visit to Palabana area of Chongwe by President Michael Sata. His mission is to merely officiate at the ground breaking ceremony for the construction of the University of Palabana. What is fascinating [...]

There are reported fatalities along Kitwe-Chingola that happened this afternoon in an accident involving several vehicles at a place called Sabina. Reports reaching the Watchdog indicate that there are about 6 vehicles that are involved in the accident with deaths reported but the exact number is not yet established. The Chingola-Kitwe accident happens same day after more [...]

The complaints by the two Kabwe MPs as to what residents of this vital town have wronged the PF have become complicated, with another blow of relocating the Cosafa slot from Godfrey Ucar Chitalu stadium to Nkana stadium in Kitwe. And MMD die hard coordinator Bowman Lusambo  has demanded that the stretch of Buntungwa road  [...]

BUS fares from Kitwe to Lusaka have been increased from K70 to K80 with effect from this morning following the lifting of subsidies on fuel which has led to the increment of the pump price for fuel. Bus owners, who had earlier differed on the bus fares from Kitwe to Lusaka because some wanted the [...]

Editor, There is a critical shortage of drugs in Kapiri Mposhi District.Most of the Rural Health Centers have no essential drugs, as a result most of the patients have resorted to travel long distances from center to center in quest of drugs. Kapiri Mposhi District  ART Clinic has also run out of Niverapine(ARV).The drug has [...]

The passengers on the Solwezi bound bus travelling from Lusaka this morning were escaped being sacrificed after their bus overturned at 16 miles area, along the great north road, leaving over 15 people with injuries. Sources told the Zambian watchdog that the bus believed to belong to Ticklays Coach Services overturned this morning but no [...]