Pensions and Insurance Authority Registrar Martin Libinga says the Authority will adhere to Finance Minister Felix Mutati's directive to appoint an independent auditor to assess the financial and operational governance of Saturnia Regna; Zambia’s largest private pensions scheme. In an interview with News Diggers! today, Libinga said the PIA was in the process of contracting...

University of Zambia Students Union (UNZASU) officials have rubbished Higher Education Minister Professor Nkandu Luo’s decision to suspend their operations. On Monday Prof Luo suspended UNZASU activities, halting the forth-coming elections saying contenders were behind the protests which erupted at the highest learning institution over the continued lecturer’s go-slow and late payment of allowances. The...

Shemmy Mayembe has taken Zambia back in front to lead Germany 4-3 in 106 minutes. Germany come from behind to level 3-3 in the nick of stoppage time in the 2017 FIFA World Cup elimination game being played in Jeju South Korea. Enock Mwepu earlier stepped up for Zambia to kill possible hope for Germany...

ZCCM-IH Chief Executive Officer Dr Pius Kasolo has sued Daily Nation Newspaper in the Lusaka High Court for insinuating that he had intentions of taking over the Patriotic Front presidency seeking damages for malicious falsehood. In a statement of claim filed today, Dr Kasolo stated that he had suffered harassment and unnecessary question on whether...

Finance Minister Felix Mutati has directed the Pensions and Insurance Authority (PIA) to appoint an independent auditor to assess the financial and operational governance of Saturnia Regna; Zambia's largest private pensions scheme. In a letter addressed to PIA registrar Martin Libinga, Mutati said that the audit should be undertaken and completed within thirty days. “I...

Zambia Under-20 seek redemption at 13:00 hours today in Jeju, South Korea as they face 1981 World champions Germany in a battle to reach the quarterfinals of the 2017 FUIFA World Cup. Zambia has never been to the U20 World Cup quarterfinals after making their last 16 debut in the team's second tournament appearance at...

Seven foreign-based players headline Zambia’s provisional 29-member team that coach Wedson Nyirenda has summoned ahead of the June 10 Clash against Mozambique in a 2019 AFCON Group K qualifier. Nyirenda has made two shock changes dropping midfielder Nathan Sinkala and bringing in his forgotten TP Mazembe club mate and striker Given Singuluma. Sinkala has played...

Special Assistant to the President for Press and Public Relations Amos Chanda says he does not know why police charged UPND leader Hakainde Hichilema with treason. And Alliance for Community Action executive director Laura Miti says all those defending brutality and bad governance today will swallow their words once they lose their jobs. Amos, Miti,...

PF chairman for media and publicity Frank Bwalya says the ruling party is praying that God does not allow Hakainde Hichilema to become President because he could arrest them all. Bwalya said this when he featured on Radio Phoenix's Let the People Talk programme today, where callers warned him that the PF would suffer the...

Patriotic Front National Youth Chairperson Stephen Kampyongo has reacted angrily to Chishimba Kambwili’s call for the party to elect a presidential candidate before the 2021 elections, contrary to secretary general Davies Mwila’s declaration that President Edgar Lungu will stand for the third time. On Saturday, Mwila asked those with presidential ambitions to shelve them until...

Pensions and Insurance Authority (PIA) says the successful holding of an Annual General Meeting will resolve the issues at Zambia’s largest private pensions scheme; Saturnia Regna Pension Fund. Recently, News Diggers! reported that the fate of over K2 billion held in trust for contributors is at stake as bickering and fraud allegations at Saturnia Regna...

The Auditor General says it is regrettable that government is being made to pay contractors more money on road projects because of delayed advanced payments. This came to light when a team of parliamentary Public Accounts Committee inspected the Chipata-Chadiza-Katete road where works have been halted due to non payment of an advance sum to...

The University of Zambia Lecturers and Researchers Union (UNZALARU) has vowed to continue their go-slow until government and management give them a clear road map on how they pay over K300 million owed to them. And Higher Education Minister Professor Nkandu Luo has suspended all students’ union activities at UNZA owing to the ongoing riots....

Former vice president Nevers Mumba says President Edgar Lungu is an emerging dictator who needs to do better to prove to the world otherwise. Speaking when he featured on Muvi TV’s Assignment on Sunday, Mumba said it was funny that President Lungu was forcing people to recognize him because not even God made such demands....

Opposition UPND president Hakainde Hichilema has asked the Lusaka magistrate court to call his treason case tomorrow so that he can be surrendered to the High Court for trial without delaying the matter further through a judicial review process. On Friday last week magistrate David Simusamba adjourned Hichilema's treason case to June 12 to allow...

PF Deputy Secretary General Mumbi Phiri says South Africans have no moral right to comment on how President Edgar Lungu is governing Zambia. Addressing the press today, Mumbi who has been vocal since the incarceration of UPND leader Hakainde Hichilema, said Zambians fought the Apartheid regime to liberate that country for the benefit of black...

President Edgar Lungu today reminded the House of Chiefs that traditional leaders now have the mandate to make recommendations to local authorities regarding the welfare of communities, and that government no longer has the powers to recognise or withdraw the recognition of chiefs. Speaking when he officially opened the fifth session of the House of...

University of Zambia (UNZA) students have started another riot despite heavy police presence at the Great East Campus. Last night, the students exchanged stones and teargas with police officers who tried to stop their violent protest over the on-going lecturers’ go-slow and delayed payments of project and accommodation allowances. Calm was restored around 02:00 hours...

Mufumbwe UPND member of parliament Eliot Kamondo has asked the Constitutional Court to dismiss Steven Masumba's election petition appeal saying the electorates voted freely without intimidation. In this matter, Masumba of the ruling Patriotic Front had challenged Kamondo's election in the High Court but he lost the petition. Masumba then challenged the loss in the...

Agriculture Minister Dora Siliya's boyfriend Mark Ode Mubalama this morning returned to the immigration offices in Lusaka in the company of his late mother's sister to prove that he is Zambian. Mubalama has been defending his Zambian citizenship since his relationship with the Agriculture Minister became known to the public early this year. Upon returning...

People's Party Leader Mike Mulongoti says President Edgar Lungu is not any different from the colonial masters because he is also an authoritarian leader who has killed democracy and unleashed the police on defenceless citizens. And Mulongoti says President Lungu should not ask donors and investors to leave the country because he has no capacity...

Zambia midfielder Enock Mwepu says the squad is not scared of Zambia's next oppoent, Germany, at the on-going 2017 FIFA U20 World Cup. The U20 AFCON champions face the 1981 Under-20 World Cup winners on May 31 in the last 16 in Jeju. "Since we started the tournament when we played and beat Portugal, our...

In this audio, singer Pilato says the fact that he made peace with the Patriotic Front government does not mean that he has been silenced and cannot speak through his music on behalf of the voiceless. Born Chama Fumba, the 33-year-old mixed genre recording artiste from Ndola has been a critic of governments. He was...