Author: The Post Online

WE won’t allow foreigners to hijack our country, says Wynter Kabimba. And Kabimba says MMD president Nevers Mumba has killed the party. Kabimba, the PF secretary general and justice minister, said foreign investors did not have the interests of Zambians at heart. “This government doesn’t want our people to be paid slave wages. Stop paying […]

President Michael Sata has arrived in Brussels, Belgium to attend the fourth Africa EU heads of States Summit. He arrived today at 14:30 and was received by senior government officials. President Sata is accompanied by commerce minister Robert Sichinga and foreign affairs minister Harry Kalaba. Aambia’s Ambassador to Belgium Grace Kabwe said there were several […]

SARB Energy managing director Akpan Ekpene yesterday disclosed that Rupiah Banda asked SARB Energy officials to quickly pay him US$1 million out of the money that Zambia anticipated to realise from the Nigerian crude oil contract to finance his 2011 election bid. But Banda said outside court that Ekpene, who is testifying in his abuse […]

UPND is too small to swallow MMD, says Chembe Nyangu. And Nyangu says it is an insult for the UPND senior leadership, which has been vulgar towards other parties, to propose a merger with MMD. Commenting on the decision by the UPND senior leadership to task Mutale Nalumango to engage senior MMD officials, among them […]

THE UPND senior leadership has tasked Mutale Nalumango to engage senior MMD officials among them Dr Brian Chituwo, Kabinga Pande and Kenneth Chipungu with a view to merge the two parties. The UPND wants to merge with MMD in order to dislodge the PF from power in the 2016 elections. Sources disclosed that Nalumango, who […]

PRESIDENT Michael Sata has mocked Hakainde Hichilema over his ascendancy to the presidency of UPND. In a letter to Hichilema dated July 12, 2013, President Sata said he would only respond to Hichilema’s claims after telling him the legitimacy of his leadership. “RE: Appointment of acting Chief Justice Lombe Chibesakunda. I acknowledge receipt of your […]

ADD president Charles Milupi has appealed to other opposition political parties who are genuine and want to see Zambia take a different route to see through the UPND’s schemes. Commenting on the continued poaching of MMD members by the UPND, Milupi said any talk of unity with the UPND was usually an opportunity for them […]

RUPIAH Banda yesterday turned to vulgar language on the issue of his passport and knee problem. And Banda’s sympathisers threatened Major Richard Kachingwe shortly after he concluded his evidence-in-chief in a case where the former president is facing charges related to a Nigerian oil deal. Banda said assertions that he had a knee problem were […]

FORMER president Rupiah Banda is now seeking to get his passport back using his knee. Banda’s senior private secretary Mikatazo Wakumelo says “the passport will be needed to enable him travel to South Africa to seek medical attention for his knee problem”. And sources have disclosed that this would be an opportunity for the former […]

MMD national secretary Kapembwa Simbao yesterday described as nonsense UPND’s continued poaching of his party’s senior members. And Simbao says the MMD-UPND alliance will not work as long as the two opposition parties do not respect each other. Speaking to journalists yesterday, Simbao, who is also MMD Senga Hill member of parliament, accused the UPND […]