By Alfred A. K. Ndhlovu The quarrel between The Post newspaper (a media house and institution) and Mr. Hakainde Hichilema (an individual and leader of the United Party for National Development-UPND) is sickening. It calls into question the nature and professionalism of Zambian journalism or specifically tabloid journalism of The Post newspaper. It is wrong [...]

Kano – A 1-month-old baby, said to hold a diploma, was on the Nigerian government payroll, officials have discovered, exposing the levels to which corruption runs in Africa’s most populous country. The name of the infant was recently found on the payment voucher of a local government council in northern Nigeria during an exercise to [...]

Zambia was one of the countries which abstained during the controversial vote inUNESCO in which the majority of the member-states of the UN agency voted to admit the Palestinian Authority as a member. The vote taken at the UNESCO General-Assembly on Monday allowed Palestine in even though the Palestinian Autyhority has not been internationally recognized as a sovereign state. It created an international diplomatic [...]

FORMER Minister of Mines Maxwell Mwale says his successor, Wylbur Simuusa, should seek guidance from the Ministry of Finance to establish what happened to the US$167.5 million obtained from the sale of 2.28 percent stake in Lumwana Mining Company (LMC) by the Zambia Consolidated Copper Mine-Investment Holdings. On Monday, Mr Simuusa alleged that US$167.5 million [...]

By Austin Mbozi President Michael Sata’s useless populism must be stopped. He must just implement the Barotseland Agreement which he promised them to win votes. A Commission of Inquiry was needed to get submissions on how best to implement the Barotseland Agreement (like the Chona One Party state Commission in 1970-71), not this useless and deceiving [...]

The state plans to confiscate the passport of former president Rupiah Banda’s son James when he appears in court on Wednesday. Banda will stand accused of assaulting Noel Nkoma, the former spokesperson of Finance bank. Latest information gathered by the Watchdog indicates that Nkhoma will not be in court as he is inUK. Trouble started [...]

By Arthur Simuchoba (Times online) In an extraordinary move, President Michael Sata has apologised to the government of Angola for what he said was Zambia’s “treachery” through its support of the rebel Unita movement of Dr Jonas Savimbi during the Angolan civil war. The apology came as Sata received the credentials of the new Angolan [...]

THE Catholic Diocese of Mongu has said the abrogation of  the Barotseland Agreement (BA) of 1964 by the Zambian Government on October 23, 1969 without prior consultation with the people of  Western Province through the Litunga is one of the root causes to the January 14 fracas as this had hurt the feelings of most [...]

By George Lubasi Zambia has just come out of a tightly contested election. Emotions and fatigue are just beginning to come down after a gruelling fight for access to power.   What the people are generally looking forward to is how the new Government will implement the various promises they made. The last thing the people of Zambia [...]

PARLIAMENT heard yesterday that a tribunal should have been established to recommend to the president on whether former Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) director-general Patrick Kayukwa should be dismissed or not. Issuing his maiden speech and commenting on the president’s address to the House yesterday, Monze Member of Parliament (MP) Jack Mwiimbu (UPND) said it was saddening that President [...]