Sixteen UPND MPs to attend PF dialogue forum
Breaking News. Sixteen UPND Members of Parliament have defied their party position and will attend the PF National Dialogue Forum that starts tomorrow Wednesday April 24. 2019. Among the notable names...
View ArticleKafue MP says won’t attend PF national dialogue
As people may be aware, the National Dialogue Forum is expected to commence sittings today. The Forum has been constituted in line with the National Dialogue Act, which Act was passed by parliament...
View ArticleUPND allows MPs to attend National Dialogue Forum
The UPND has told its MPs to attend the PF National Dialogue Forum if they wish, the Watchdog understands. According to latest information, the UPND says no MP will be punished for attending the...
View ArticleFormer Uzasu President held in India over drugs
Zambian held with 22-kg narcotic substance The Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) personnel last week selected a foreign passenger for checking of his luggage in the departure area of Terminal-3...
View ArticleGBM’s rejoining of PF
My Views. Tuesday, April 23rd and Zambians were treated a press briefing by one Geoffrey Bwalya Mwamba AKA GBM in which he categorically stated the challenges he faced in UPND and subsequently...
View ArticleNational Dialogue Forum to extend presidential term
* Forum will agree to extend president Edgar Lungu’s term of office suggesting that there could be no elections in 2021 The National Dialogue Forum started sitting on Tuesday, 23rd April 2019 at the...
View ArticleEmployment code of 2019 ill-timed
The implementation of the employment code act no 3 of 2019 is ill-timed The signing of the employment code act no 3 of 2019 which is expected to come into effect on 1st June, 2019 is ill-timed. It...
View ArticleImmigration department admits it had run out of border passes at Victoria...
The Zambian Immigration Department has admitted that it had run out of border passes at the Victoria Falls border post. Immigration department Spokesperson Namati Shinka has confirmed that the...
View ArticleChitimukulu wants presidential running mate close removed
By Henry Kanyanta Sosala Preamble I entirely agree with Dickson Jere that the above clause should be revisited. And I appeal to the delegates to the National Dialogue forum to seriously examine the...
View ArticleDrug trafficker Ali Tunkara associated with prophet Munyeta
Editor, THE Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) personnel at Indira Gandhi International Airport Airport, India on April 7th, 2019, arrested Tunkara Ali for carrying drugs in his bag. He was...
View ArticleGovernment to handover Indeni to Nigeria firm
The PF government through the corrupt Industrial Development Corporation (IDC) is in the process of surrendering Indeni Refinery to a Nigerian company called Sahara Energy Resources. Since last year,...
View ArticleGirls Brigade in Road accident
A bus carrying members of the Girls Brigade has overturned in Mpika. Reports indicate that one girl died on the accident spot. The girls were traveling from the United Church of Zambia to Lwitikila...
View ArticleInonge Wina suffers heart attack, evacuated to SA
Vice President Inonge Wina has just been evacuated to South Africa after suffering a heart attack. Mrs Wina was first admitted at UTH where president Edgar Lungu visited her and ordered that she...
View ArticleUPND’s Katuka, Masebo In SA to fundraise
UPND Secretary General Steven Katuka and Chairperson for Elections Silver Masebo and a horde of UPND cadres are in South Africa to ostensibly ‘map out a strategy to raise resources for the 2021...
View ArticlePF to arrest opposition MPs, then change constitution
A Patriotic Front (PF) ‘kitchen Cabinet’ that met on Saturday, 27th April 2019 resolved that all UPND MPs that will not attend the National Dialogue Forum should be suspended from Parliament and...
View ArticleCourt temporarily stops ZAF from damaging Chalimbana river
A Lusaka High Court has granted nine Chongwe headmen and a company an injunction restraining Zambia Air Force Projects Limited and four others from continuing construction works or further...
View ArticleNot sure when you will be paid, CBU lecturers told
Copperbelt University management says it’s still looking for money to pay lecturers and other staff for April 2019 labour. A notice to lectures and staff from the registrar says management is still...
View ArticlePolice pursue Kelvin Fube Bwalya
Police in Lusaka are pursuing PF presidential hopeful Kelvin Bwalya for proposing violence. According to police, during the launch of his book, Bwalya took time to propose violence. The post Police...
View ArticleJobs and jobs creation: examples from tourism
By Situmbeko Musokotwane Chairman of the Economics and Finance Committee (UPND) Lack of decent employment opportunities is one of the serious socio-economic problems facing Zambia today. More than...
View ArticleFlashback: Kabimba reports KBF to police
FLASHBACK: THIS IS WHAT ZWD REPORTED YEARS AGO ABOUT ‘INCOMING’ PF PRESIDENT KBF WYNTER KABIMBA REPORTS LAWYER KELVIN BWALYA FUBE FOR SWINDLING OWN PARTY PF PF Secretary-General Wynter Kabimba has...
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