UPND leader Hakainde Hichilema and NDC leader Chishimba Kambwili yesterday teamed up to drum up support for Charmaine Mehl Musonda at a public rally in Chilanga. Hichilema said it was a waste of time blocking the impeachment motion in court because there were four other similar motions waiting to be tabled. And Kambwili insisted that...

Some businesses in the construction sector made large unusual cash deposits last year amounting to a combined total of K110 million, the latest Financial Intelligence Centre (FIC) report reveals. According to the FIC 2017 Money Laundering/Terrorist Financing Trends Report, businesses in the construction sector made large unusual cash deposits last year amounting to a combined...

President Edgar Lungu’s assertion that the people of Southern Province are “like orphans because they did not elect PF members of parliament" has angered area MPs. President Lungu, while in Siavonga District last week, said Southern Province had continued to remain behind in terms of development because citizens in that region had continued to vote...

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) in Kasama has arrested a former teacher at Ntindi Primary School in Nakonde for corrupt practices involving over K184,000. ACC spokesperson, Timothy Moono, stated that the suspect identified as Catherine Nakamba, aged 29, of Mukoma village in Nakonde has been charged with one count of uttering a false document and another...

NDC leader Chishimba Kambwili says government must stop selling public infrastructure because it is better for investors to develop virgin land. And Kambwili has warned that one day, Zambians will wake up to a privatized country if government continues contracting Chinese loans. Meanwhile, Kambwili asked President Edgar Lungu's press aide Amos Chanda to stop threatening...

Lands and Natural resources Minister Jean Kapata says government has elevated the 30 per cent land ownership threshold for women to 40 per cent in the new land policy. But Kapata cautioned that the allocated percentage threshold was not going to be for free as there would some fees attached to its acquisition. “First of...

Until recently, the Law Association of Zambia (LAZ) has been a rare bright spot amid Zambia’s increasingly inactive and ineffective civil society movement. Under the leadership of Linda Kasonde, the association’s first female President, who chose not to seek re-election when her first term in office expired in April this year, LAZ exerted every effort...

The International Institute of Certified Forensic Investigations (ICFI) says the Presidency in Zambia has being reduced to nothing. In a statement to News Diggers! Sunday, ICFI professional government liaison director for Africa Prof Gibson Mwewa stated that the office of the President is being mismanaged. "The Presidency is the highest constitutional office of our land...

Local Government Minister Vincent Mwale has announced that Lusaka's Kalingalinga Police post has been sold to a developer who intends to construct a shopping mall. Responding to a Tweet from a concerned citizen Sipho Phiri who wondered how the community would survive without a police station. "They have sold Kalingalinga Police Post...I've been making improvements...

Centre for Trade Policy and Development (CTPD) board chairperson Trevor Simumba has urged Zambians to advocate for the citizens' arrest legislation to allow private individuals or organizations prosecute suspected criminals of illicit financial flows. Commenting on revelations from the Financial Intelligence Centre (FIC) that Zambia lost an estimated K4.5 billion in financial crimes in 2017...

Government has decided to re-stream 40 per cent of the E-voucher FISP to the old system, a move which has excited the Zambia National Farmers’ Union. And ZNFU has asked government to scrap off the insurance scheme which is co-opted into the E-voucher system. In a statement, Sunday, ZNFU president Jarvis Zimba said the farmers'...