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By NATION REPORTER

CITIZEN First President Harry Kalaba is demanding that President Hakainde Hichilema should move into State House because his continued stay at his private residence was not only an inconvenience to the general public but was also a security risk on the presidency.

And Mr Kalaba expressed concern with the lack of transparency that has manifested under the UPND with Hichilema refusal to declare his assets in as dictated by the tenets of good governance.

FORMER Secretary to the Cabinet, Leslie Mbula,  has argued that the Constitutional Court is vested with the power to hear the matter in which he has sued Sean Tembo over his alleged insulting language against President Hakainde Hichilema.

Mr Tembo, the Patriots for Economic Progress (PeP) party leader has raised preliminary issues, questioning the powers of the Concourt as opposed to the local court to interpret whether the disparaging innuendos and insulting words allegedly published by him against President Hichilema were contrary to Articles 8(a) and (b), 20 and 43 (1) (a) and 43(2)(d) of the Constitution of Zambia.

He asked whether Mr Mbula had properly moved the Concourt by way of originating summons as a way of commencement given that the originating summons are both for interpretation and contravention of the Constitution.

Ischemic stroke, caused by a blockage of blood flow to the brain, is a common cause of death and disability. Treatments are urgently needed to improve patient outcomes, because recovery currently depends largely on the timely injection of a blood clot-dissolving drug. Priorities for therapy include limiting inflammation at the ischemic site and rebuilding neuronal connections damaged by the stroke. However, a molecule that can achieve these therapeutic effects has remained elusive.

Postmenopausal women with clogged arteries are at higher risk of heart attacks than men of similar age, according to research presented at EACVI 2023, a scientific congress of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC), and published in European Heart Journal—Cardiovascular Imaging. The study in nearly 25,000 adults used imaging techniques to examine the arteries and followed patients for heart attacks and death.

ZAMBIA’S soccer icon Kalusha Bwalya is set  to coach the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations  Winning Legends Against Barcelona Legends team to be led by former Brazilian star Gaucho Ronaldinho to be played at the National Heroes Stadium on May 25.

The match is an exhibition fixture organised by Kings of Africa in partnership with the Ministry of Sport.

The match promises to be a thrilling encounter, with legendary Brazilian footballer, Ronaldinho headlining the Barcelona team.

The Barcelona Legends team will be full of former superstars to ever play the game of football.

Expected to feature in the Zambian team is the entire 2012 AfCON winning team with Captain Chris Katongo set to lead his lads.

Former KK 11 captain Kalusha is expected to be on the touch line but may play a role on the pitch in the latter stages of the game.

The announcement of the inclusion of the 1988 Africa Footballer of the year has excited fans on social media with the hope of him playing on the pitch reminiscent of his playing days. The Ministry of Sport is using the game to promote sports tourism in Zambia.

GOVERNMENT must arrange a one- on-one meeting with the Chinese authorities in its quest for a debt restructuring process since that country has been singled out as delaying the procedure, an Accountants Institute has suggested.

The Zambia Institute of Chartered Accountants (ZiCA) has also urged Government to start considering having a second plan in case the debt restructuring process takes longer than planned.

ZiCA president, Cecilia Zimba stated that the institute took keen interest in the ongoing discussions and developments on the country’s debt restructuring process.

Life has changed forever because of COVID-19, and the virus is still spreading, and still causing serious illness or significant disruption of ‘normal’ life.

THABO Kawana has roundly been chastised for having developed the propensity of storming broadcasting media houses and imposing himself as the uninvited guest on programmes mainly featuring leaders of the opposition political parties.

The Zambia Institute of Independent Media Alliance (ZIIMA), the Patriotic Front (PF) and civil rights activist Brebner Changala have described Mr Kawana’s behavior of storming media houses and intimidating hosts of programmes and their guest as politically ill-mannered.

Yesterday, Mr Kawana stormed Lusaka Music Radion which was hosting PF deputy information and publicity chairperson Emmanuel Mwamba, barely a week after he forced himself on the Diamond TV which was hosting Raphael Nakacinda, the PF information and publicity chairperson and declared himself part of the programme without being invited.

And now Mr Kawana’s conduct has attracted the concerns ZIIMA consultant Wilson Pondamali, Mr Mwamba and Mr Changala who have said the Ministry of Information and Media director and spokesperson was over-stepping his authority as a civil servant.

In a statement yesterday, Mr Pondamali said ZIIMA had taken note of the unbecoming behaviour of one civil servant in the name of Mr Kawana of storming studios during live programmes.

“Firstly, we want to register our displeasure that such behaviour is coming from a director in our parent Ministry. This is a Ministry that is supposed to uphold our independence and media freedoms in line with the aspirations of President Hakainde Hichilema and the new dawn administration, we call upon the Permanent Secretary in that ministry to censure Mr. Kawana,” Mr Pondamali said.

And Mr Changala said the excitement by Mr Kawana as a politicking civil servant was shocking and has advised that he (Kawana) should tone down on his new agenda of storming broadcasting media houses and verbally attacking politicians.

By NATION REPORTER

EW Revolution Party (NRP) president Cosmo Mumba has bemoaned the lack of medicines at the University Teaching Hospital (UTH) and other health facilities countrywide.

Dr Mumba who was hospitalised for 10 days at UTH said the hospital did not have drugs and that this had escalated the number of deaths in the country because drugs were not readily available.

He said that despite many complaints government was still adamant about the matter and that the drug shortages had continued to loom.

A US panel of health experts voted Wednesday in favor of making birth control pills available without a prescription, a move backed by reproductive rights advocates especially in the wake of a Supreme Court ruling overturning the national right to abortion.