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A former National University of Lesotho (NUL) lecturer fighting for a top government job holds a PhD from a dubious American university notorious for selling degrees. Dr Oriel Mohale Phehlane, a former diplomat, is in a legal battle to be appointed the principal secretary of the Ministry of Finance. The basis of his lawsuit against …

PROFESSOR Nqosa Mahao’s Basotho Action Party (BAP) is imploding, amid fierce factional fights. The party’s chairman, Tello Kibane, this week abruptly resigned from all his positions in the party. He was the chairman of the party’s central executive committee (CEC), the working committee and the parliamentary caucus.

THE coalition government wants to push out the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), Advocate Hlalefang Motinyane. thepost can reveal that long knives are being sharpened for Advocate Motinyane. The plan, which has been brewing for the past four weeks, is to demote Advocate Motinyane to the junior position of adviser to the Attorney General.

A 2.5 percent salary increment. That is all that civil servants will get this year. In her budget speech in parliament yesterday, Finance Minister Dr Retšelisitsoe Matlanyane also awarded civil servants an automatic notch increase of 2.5 percent.

PRIME Minister Sam Matekane faces a stern test next week after civil servants threatened to down tools. The Coalition of Lesotho Public Employees (COLEPE), an association of unions and associations for government employees, says the strike starts on Monday and will continue until the government agrees to their demand for a 25 percent salary increase.

THE All Basotho Convention (ABC) is bitterly divided on whether it should join Prime Minister Sam Matekane’s coalition government. So deep are the divisions that the ABC’s weekly leadership meeting on Monday almost descended into chaos as executive committee members argued over the suggestion to join the government.

A Roman Catholic priest, Reverend Tlotliso Khabo, has been fired as a priest for attending an initiation school. Reverend Khabo, who was stationed at St Theresa Mission in Bela-Bela, angered the church after he went for initiation in December 2022.

TWENTY National University of Lesotho (NUL) students are in limbo after the National Manpower Development Secretariat (NMDS) terminated their sponsorship because their degree programme is not accredited.

THE government wants the body of the late Anglican Church of Lesotho Bishop Adam Taaso exhumed and reburied in the village cemetery in Tšehlanyane, Leribe. However, his family is opposing the bid.

Lesotho’s chicken crisis could be far from over as the government remains reluctant to lift the ban on poultry imports from South Africa. The crisis started in October after South Africa was hit by the avian bird flu. Lesotho responded swiftly by banning poultry imports from South Africa.