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PRESIDENT Hakainde Hichilema has with immediate effect removed High Court Judge Joshua Banda from his office and has further suspended Judge Sunday Nkonde as Judge of the High Court. According to a statement issued by Presidential Spokesperson Anthony Bwalya, the President was acting on the recommendations in the report which was presented to him by […]

FORMER tourism minister Ronald Chitotela has raised a preliminary issue, asking the Lusaka Magistrates’ Court to dismiss the matter he was recently arrested for, arguing that he cannot be tried when there is a settlement agreement he signed with the Anti Corruption Commission. And Lusaka magistrate Jennipher Bwalya has granted the Pambashe PF member of […]

THE Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has arrested former Secretary to the Treasury Fredson Yamba for corrupt practices involving over US$33 million. In a statement, Wednesday, ACC Chief Corporate Affairs Officer Timothy Moono stated that Yamba allegedly failed to follow procedure in 2018 when he authorized an advance payment of US$33, 750,000 to China Energy Engineering Group […]

FORMER tourism minister Ronald Chitotela has sued the Anti-Corruption Commission in the Lusaka High Court seeking a declaration that his State Lodge property which was seized by the commission was legally and genuinely acquired. And Chitotela has submitted that he has genuinely and legitimately earned incomes used to purchase the said property from maize supplied […]

THE Anti- Corruption Commission (ACC) has arrested former Tourism Minister Ronald Chitotela in connection with possession of property reasonably suspected to be proceeds of crime. The commission says the arrest is in relation to a case in which Chitotela, whilst serving as Housing and Infrastructure Minister, was in May 2019 arrested and charged with nine […]

THE Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has arrested former Tourism Minister Ronald Chitotela in connection with investigations on possession of property reasonably suspected to be proceeds of crime. The commission says the arrest is in relation to a case in which Chitotela, whilst serving as Housing and Infrastructure Minister, was in May 2019 arrested and charged with […]

PRESIDENT Hakainde Hichilema says people who stole did not do so to serve their ethnicity, adding that sometimes, they didn’t even steal for their wives but for their girlfriends. And President Hichilema says government remains consistent and steadfast in its quest to reform the pension system. Meanwhile, President Hichilema says it is important that employers, […]

THE Energy Regulation Board (ERB) has reduced fuel pump prices by K2.35 per litre for petrol, K0.58 per litre for diesel and K0.56 per litre for kerosene. The price changes will take effect at midnight. Addressing the media, Saturday, ERB board chairperson Reynolds Bowa attributed the reduction to the recent trends in international oil prices […]

ZAMBIA and the Democratic Republic of Congo have signed cooperating agreements which will see the two countries venture into electric battery manufacturing. President Hakainde Hichilema has described the agreements as the right way of fighting poverty through the creation of jobs and business opportunities. And Democratic Republic of Congo President Felix Tshisekedi says the agreements […]

ANTI-CORRUPTION Commission (ACC) acting director-general Silumesi Muchula says the commission has not come across anything that touches on former president Edgar Lungu, in all the matters which have so far been investigated. And Muchula says when government officials are allowed to continue holding office while facing corruption charges, they become obstacles. Meanwhile, Muchula says the […]