Young African Leaders Initiative president Andrew Ntewewe says there is nothing sinister about ministers going to their constituencies to campaign because they are supposed to mingle with their voters on a regular basis. In an interview, Ntewewe said YALI had been advocating for Mrs to visit their constituencies often on a regular basis. “We have...

The Policy Monitoring and Research Centre (PMRC) says a negative mindset among citizens is one of the key national constraints to development and social transformation. According to a report compiled by PMRC, under executive director Bernette Deka's supervision, any country’s economy could only be grow if citizens played their respective roles and responsibilities diligently. “The...

Green Party president Peter Sinkamba says dismissing or retiring public officers in public interest without showing cause for doing so is unconstitutional and illegal in Zambia. In a statement, Sunday, Sinkamba argued that the ‘retirement in public interest’ mode of exit was usually triggered at the pleasure of the President it is abused to punish...

A group of civil society organisations and farmer associations says government’s decision to commercialise the Food Reserve Agency because that will severely undermine the development of Zambia’s agricultural sector. During a consultative workshop held on December 6, 2017, government, through the Ministry of Agriculture, announced that it would review the FRA Act Chapter 225 of...

People’s Party president Mike Mulongoti says the Cholera excuse for government's failure to reopen the University of Zambia and Copperbelt University in not genuine because students hostels have always been inhabitable. In an interview with News Diggers! Mulongoti said it was strange for the Minister of Higher Education to come out as though she didn't...

UPND has written to the Minister of Home Affairs Steven Kampyongo requesting that his office overturns the decision by the police to cancel their Eastern Province card renewal exercise saying that there might be a political hand involved. Meanwhile, UPND has also written to Ministry of Tourism permanent secretary Liya Mutale opposing government's decision to...

People’s Alliance for Change leader Andyford Banda says it is shocking that police seem to be applying the Defamation of the President law predominantly on people of a lower class. Last week, Police in Kitwe arrested a 37-year-old man of Chimwemwe for saying Lungu ‘wamafi fye’. Copperbelt Police Commissioner Charity Katanga identified the suspect as...

Rainbow Party General Secretary Wynter Kabimba says the excuse given by Anti-Corruption Commission Director General Kapetwa Phiri that the Commission is failing in its duties due to invisible influence threatening witnesses from giving information to the ACC is washy, because the commission under the law has powers to prosecute anyone who obstructs an investigation. And...

President Edgar Lungu’s announcement that he will not travel abroad this year is unrealistic, and must worry every concerned citizen about the kind of leadership that is in State House. This decision proves that our Head of State doesn’t have a focused agenda for Zambia; he speaks out of impulse rather than from a critically...

Government has indefinitely closed Kwame Nkrumah University following a standoff between management and lecturers over unpaid dues. Addressing irate students at the old graduation square, Mulungushi University Dean of Students Affairs, Dr Mpande Siachaba asked students to vacate the university premises by midday, Monday, saying management would communicate an opening date. “When we met with...

Transparency International Zambia (TIZ) president Rueben Lifuka says a Head of State must never be allowed to use his Executive immunity to commit illegalities. But Lifuka also says his organisation does not support calls to remove the immunity of a sitting President, arguing that there are sufficient laws that could be used to keep the...

Sinda Independent member of parliament Masauso Tembo, popularly known as Kazungula, on Saturday unleashed a myriad of insults on his constituents after one of them, George Malonje Mwanza, posted a satyrical joke on Facebook which was misunderstood and ended up angering the Honourable. And Mwanza says Tembo stormed his house with his supporters the same...

Dundumwezi UPND member of parliament Edgar Sing’ombe says it would be nonsensical for Parliament to enact a law that restricts losing Presidential candidates from recontesting, with the aim of blocking Hakainde Hichilema. And Sing’ombe says there is no need for government to present a bill that would bar people from abusing social media and the...

On 7 February 2018, opposition United Party for National Development (UPND) leader Hakainde Hichilema argued that President Edgar Lungu has finally confessed to fixing the outcome of the 2016 presidential election. Hichilema’s conclusion drew from a video clip that emerged last week in which President Lungu is seen addressing market traders in Chibombo district, Central...