• 19 Mar 2018
• Mukosha Funga

4th cell network provider gets license

The Zambia Information and Communications and Technology has awarded UZi Zambia Limited a license to provide mobile network services. In a statement issued by ZICTA manager corporate communications Ngabo Nankonde, Monday, UZi Zambia had pledged to invest over US$350 million and would create over 450 direct employment opportunities to support their operations in Zambia. "The...

• 19 Mar 2018
• Nancy Moonga

Lungu orders inquiry into UTH power outage

President Edgar Lungu has ordered an inquiry into the power supply failure at the University Teaching Hospital which occurred yesterday. According to a statement issued by Special Assistant to the President for Press and Public Relations Amos Chanda, President Lungu directed Minister of Health Chitalu Chilufya and his Energy counterpart Matthew Nkuwa to carry out...

• 19 Mar 2018
• Mukosha Funga

Luo prods students over poor hygiene

Minister of Higher Education Professor Nkandu Luo says she has never seen the kind of dirt that she found in UNZA hostels during her tour when the cholera epidemic broke out. Meanwhile, Prof Luo has insisted that she would not meet Copperbelt University lecturers over their demands to remove Vice Chancellor Prof Naison Ngoma from...

• 19 Mar 2018
• Abraham Kalito

It's unfair to mislead Zambians that all is well - Mweetwa

United Party for National Development (UPND) deputy spokesperson Cornelius Mweetwa says President Edgar Lungu last Friday gave the most hypocritical to Parliament in the history of Zambia. In an interview Mweetwa who is also Choma Member of Parliament, said the speech was not in tandem with what was happening on the ground. “It appeared very...

• 19 Mar 2018
• Diggers Editor

Don’t kill the messenger; deal with the message.

Since we published a dossier on how government spent money on President Edgar Lungu’s trip to the United Nation’s in 2015, so many things have been said about our investigative report. Some have applauded our work and encouraged us to publish more, while others feel we are a bunch of desperate journalists being used by...

• 19 Mar 2018
• Sipilisiwe Ncube

Remove Ngoma or pay our benefits we leave CBU - lecturers

Copperbelt University Academic Union (CBUAU) Executive Committee president Dr Derrick Ntalasha says if government insists on keeping Vice-chancellor Prof Naison Ngoma at the institution, it should offer voluntary separation packages and pay off all workers who don't want him. Reacting to Higher Education Minister Prof Nkandu Luo who accused the workers of undermining the structure...