American-based Zambian author and law Professor Muna Ndulo says Deputy Chief Justice Marvin Mwanamwambwa's response to a letter from a Lufwanyama resident on contempt of court, breached the judicial code of conduct. In an article shared with News Diggers, Wednesday, Prof Ndulo who is also Cornell University Law Lecturer, observed that there was someone urging...

UPPZ spokesperson Francis Kope has accused PF supporters of causing violence against his party supporters and grabbing away of campaign materials at the on-going by-election campaigns in Kasenengwa constituency. And Kope further accused the ruling PF of forcing a hospitalized UPPZ supporter, who was allegedly stabbed, to wear a PF cap and took picture of...

NDC leader Chishimba Kambwili has written to Secretary to the Cabinet Rowland Msiska asking for guidance on how he can pay back salaries and other emoluments accrued during his illegal stay in office. But Kambwili says he will issue a bill to government for the services he rendered since President Edgar Lungu is the one...

The CCPC says the Bank of Zambia’s move to abolish bank charges is a wakeup call to the financial sector to become more innovative and find other means of sustaining their operations. In a statement to News Diggers! Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (CCPC) public relations officer Namukolo Kasumpa stated that the advocacy of deepening...

The UPND must grow up and begin offering logical solutions to government instead of always playing the role of professional armchair critics, says PF media director Sunday Chanda. Reacting to UPND deputy secretary general Patricia Mwashingwele, who recently challenged President Edgar Lungu to name the exact people he referred to when he said Zambians had...

A Kitwe peasant farmer is seeking financial assistance from well-wishers to settle tuition fees for his son who risks being kicked out of university for owing the institution in excess of K24,640,00. Lewis Washama explained to News Diggers! in a walk-in interview that his son, James, who is a fourth year student at Mukuba University,...

Two officers of the Zambia Police Service have been sentenced along with a Lusaka businessman to two years imprisonment with hard labour for aiding and abetting 20 illegal immigrants of Ethiopian nationality. Immigration Department Public Relations Officer Namati Nshinka disclosed in a statement that the trio were arrested on March 15, 2018, when they aided...

The Higher Education Loans and Scholarships Board says it will, starting this September, begin to collect repayments from former UNZA and CBU students who benefited from the government sponsorship programme since 2004. Government has vowed that it will use all the available technology and records to trace the owing individuals until they pay what is...

The Lusaka Magistrates' Court has put a 27-year-old man of Kanyama compound on his defence after finding him with a case to answer in the matter where he allegedly assaulted a man suspected to be his wife’s lover. In this matter, Rodwell Luneta is charged with assault occasioning bodily harm. It is alleged that on...

The Lusaka Magistrate Court has convicted a 43-year-old headman of Habeenzu village, in Shibuyunji, Lusaka Province, for assaulting a 57-year-old woman thereby occasioning her actual bodily harm. Wellingtone Habeenzu beat the woman with a stick, injuring her left leg and leaving her with a swollen shoulder and chest pains after suspecting her of killing his...

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