NDC leader Chishimba Kambwili has asked President Edgar Lungu to reverse the liquidation process and adopt a more viable option of parting ways with Vedanta. In a letter delivered to State House, Sunday, Kambwili said he was not opposed to getting rid of Vedanta but that the method being used by government was confusing. "Your...

Former Chairman of the parliamentary Budget Committee Highvie Hamududu says there has been enough talk about austerity measures and that government must move from mere rhetoric. Reacting to the newly announced austerity measures, Hamududu who is also Party of National Unity (PNU) president said, in an interview, that government was suffering from an implementation deficit...

Any mosquito that comes to Kabushi constituency to discredit President Edgar Chagwa Lungu will be crashed, says Lusaka Province Minister Bowman Lusambo. Lusambo, who is Kabushi PF member of parliament, has also donated 4,000 25kg bags of breakfast mealie-meal to old women in his constituency. Lusambo also distributed 4,000 5 Litre Containers of Cooking Oil,...

Anti-Voter Apathy (AVAP) executive director Richwell Mulwani says government should look at modalities to start funding existing political parties that take part in elections, instead of killing democracy by deregistering them. And Mulwani in an interview said it was worrying to see political parties being deregistered for failure to remit annual fees. Meanwhile, Mulwani said...

A case study highlighted in the 2018 FIC Money Laundering/Terrorist Financing Trends Report indicates that a government official built 49 residential properties worth K70 million and purchased two luxury vehicles worth K4 million. According to a case study titled, Corruption, Abuse of Office and Money Laundering, a government official named PEP (Politically Exposed Person) N...

All 11 water utilities around the country will be expected to upgrade their service provision from sewerage to sanitation following a change in their licensing from NWASCO. In an interview on the side-lines of the just-ended two-day media workshop on the ongoing Lusaka Sanitation Programme (LSP) at Ibis Gardens, Friday, National Water Supply and Sanitation...

Governance activist Brebner Changala has condemned reports of the Kabwe Patriotic Front leadership which has been collecting money from minibus drivers in bus stations on pretext that they would speak on their behalf to senior party officials. Last week, the Parliamentary Committee on Local Governance, Housing and Chiefs Affairs unearthed a fraudulent scheme where PF...

A 41-year-old businessman of Chipata's Jere compound has appeared in the Lundazi Magistrates' Court for assaulting a Breeze FM reporter. Appearing before resident magistrate Edward Chisanga, Friday, Frank Mwale, a Patriotic Front cadre, is charged with two counts; assault causing actual bodily harm on a journalist and theft contrary to the laws of Zambia. Particulars...

Special Assistant to the President for Press and Public Relations Amos Chanda says President Edgar Lungu recent trip to the Democratic Republic of Congo could have justified a larger delegation. On Friday, President Lungu went to DRC to attend veteran DRC opposition leader Etienne Tshisekedi's funeral. Etienne died in Belgium two years ago. Minister of...

The Patriotic Front has expelled Lusaka lawyer Kelvin Bwalya Fube and PF cadre Julius Komaki. PF secretary general Davies Mwila announced this at a press briefing today saying the duo "essentially expelled themselves". KBF had declared his intentions to challenge President Edgar Lungu at the general convention whilst Komaki has been calling for Mwila's removal....

Last Tuesday, one News Diggers! reader liked our front page so much that he decided to share it with his friends on social media. Five minutes after posting that front page in one of the high profile WhatsApp platforms that enjoys the membership of top government officials, a named Cabinet Minister left the group. What...

British High Commissioner to Zambia Fergus Cochrane-Dyet says government should consider how investors interpret certain policies regarding taxes or how mining companies are treated before implementing them. And High Commissioner Cochrane-Dyet says the 2018 FIC Money Laundering/Terrorist Financing Trends Report is significantly worrying because the proportion of suspicious transactions has gone up. Speaking to journalists...