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BARNABAS ZULU UMODZI Kum’mawa has condemned the Speaker of the National Assembly, Ms Nellie Mutti, for declaring the Lumezi seat vacant even when she knows that its incarcerated lawmaker Mr Munir Zulu still has 14 days to appeal against his one year sentence. Mr Zulu was jailed one year for defaming Minister of Finance and […]

NATION REPORTER A CLASH has erupted between the National Action for Quality Education in Zambia (NAQEZ) and the Teaching Service Commission over unresolved teacher welfare issues, particularly concerning salary scale upgrades. NAQEZ executive director Aaron Chansa has warned of a potential countrywide teachers’ strike, citing Government’s failure to upgrade over 40, 000 teachers to appropriate […]

Research on gastrointestinal diseases, especially cancer, has mainly focused on epithelial cells, which line the surfaces of organs, are important for various functions, and are believed to be the cells that go awry to cause these diseases. However, studying these cells using single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA) methods is tricky because the cells are delicate and can be damaged when taken out of their natural environment in the mucosal lining of the gut.

Fewer people crossed state lines to obtain abortions in 2024 than a year earlier, a new survey has found.

Countries hope more than three years of negotiations on battling future pandemics will finally end Tuesday, after reaching a preliminary agreement last week.

GRACE chaile A 72-year-old witness, Prisca Daka Banda, yesterday testified in the Lusaka High Court about the tumultuous marriage of late Lieutenant General Ronnie Shikapwasha and his wife, Jane Lusengo, who is accused of murdering him. Banda, a family friend and member of Jesus is Life Church, where Shikapwasha was presiding Bishop, revealed that the […]

GRACE CHAILE KONKOLA Copper Mines (KCM) is now facing the risk of collapsing and yet again condemn lives of many miners into deprivation and squalor following a court order that the Copperbelt Energy Corporation (CEC) should forthwith begin selling the assets of the mining company in a bid to recover an outstanding US$29.6 million debt,” […]

BARNABAS ZULU

ZAMBIANS will not make the mistake of getting into a second experiment with the UPND after the first has disastrously failed to produce the results of reduced cost of living, lower cost of mealie meal and fuel but has instead doubled the economic miseries of Zambians, Brian Mundubile has said.

Mr Mundubile says there shall be no second term for President Hakainde Hichilema because for the last four years, he has only managed to double the cost of living and should therefore not seek re-election but should consider retiring with honour.

Mr Mundubile, the Leader of the Opposition in Parliament said in an interview yesterday that President Hichilema had not been ready when he assumed public office in 2021 and that his administration had neglected the majority Zambians wallowing in poverty and squalor.

“Many Zambians are surprised because when he said he wants to double the economy, what does he mean? The ones who are winning the debate are those suggesting that everything will be double the price of what it is today because that is the only thing he has proven to be capable of…moving things from one price to double the price,” Mundubile said.

He acknowledged that while the President may be putting in effort, his outcomes were showing results lamentable failure and that asking for a second was being unfair to himself (President Hichilema) and to Zambians in general.

“If he says he is working hard, we believe it. If working hard means flying out of the country so many times, going everywhere without a structured pattern…we agree. But there has been no output, no deliverable,” he said.

He added that even basic tasks such as importing maize have become problematic, with the UPND government importing maize from Tanzania at 40 percent above the market price.

“They will import maize at 40 percent higher than the market price, and that maize doesn’t come. Before we even talk about Mopani the mingalato that has happened… in the Ndola-Lusaka dual carriageway, in the Indeni fuel procurement, in the export of electricity… they have failed,” he said.

Mr Mundubile criticized the President Hichilema’s transition from private to public service, claiming the head of State misunderstood the nature of governing the country.

“He didn’t understand the assignment of managing a country. In the private sector, it’s about profit. But in public service, it’s about the greatest happiness for the greatest number.”

He urged President Hichilema to prepare for retirement.

“We cannot experiment twice. Once beaten, twice shy. There is no credential he can present that will compel Zambians to vote for him again.

Second term for President Hichilema is definitely a no…no,no,no.

The only thing he has managed to double is the suffering of the majority poor Zambians and they are not having him to continue beyond 2026,” Mr Mundubile said.

GRACE CHAILE SAMUEL Dokowe, one of the accused in the murder case involving Independent Broadcasting Authority (IBA) Director General Guntila Muleya, yesterday opted for silence during plea proceedings on account of alleged illness, prompting renewed debate over his fitness to stand trial. Dokowe, a system engineer is accused with 42-year-old IBA accountant Francis Chipyoka, police […]

People with a certain heart valve abnormality are at increased risk of severe heart rhythm disorders, even after successful valve surgery. This is according to a new study, “Mitral annular disjunction and mitral valve prolapse: long-term risk of ventricular arrhythmias after surgery” from Karolinska Institutet and Karolinska University Hospital in Sweden, published in the European Heart Journal.