A 55-year-old clergyman of Lusaka’s Chawama area has been dragged to court for allegedly stealing over 40,000 Canadian dollars entrusted to him by a medical researcher to buy a piece of land. Innocent Harelimana, who has been charged with theft by agent, has however denied the charge. In this matter, it is alleged that between...

The Lusaka Magistrates’ Court has sentenced a 24-year-old man of Kanyama Township to six years imprisonment with hard labour for breaking into Deeper Life Church and stealing a Plasma TV, carpets, seven mattresses and other items. In this matter, David Lombe was charged with two counts of breaking into a building and committing a felony...

President Edgar Lungu says he hopes to work with the United States government to seek alternative sources of energy. Speaking during a bilateral meeting he held with US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Africa Affairs, Matthew Harrington on the margins of the ongoing 74th session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York,...

First Quantum Minerals (FQM) has dismissed assertions that it is engaged in discussions for a takeover bid or other change of control transaction with Jiangxi Coper Company of China. The mining company, nevertheless, says it is aware of speculation regarding a potential transaction involving Jiangxi Copper Company Limited. In a statement, FQM president Clive Newall...

Economist Chibamba Kanyama says he expects an increase in the amount of public debt reflected in the 2020 national budget given the rising number of projects that government has contracted, but without ready funds for disbursement. President Edgar Lungu stated during his State of Nation Address that amidst austerity measures, government was implementing actions to...

Patriotic Front Lusaka Province chairman Paul Moonga says it is rubbish for Mazabuka Central UPND member of parliament Gary Nkombo to describe President Edgar Lungu’s State of the Nation address as blasphemous. During his debate of the Presidential speech at the opening of the 4th session of the 12th National Assembly last week, Nkombo charged...

Local Government and Housing Minister Charles Banda says government has released K251 million to the Local Authorities Superannuation Fund (LASF) towards the dismantling of pension benefits owed to its retirees. Speaking at a press briefing in Lusaka, Wednesday, Banda said the released amount is out of the total K555 million, which the Authority owed to...

Patriotic Front (PF) Secretary General Davies Mwila says the prevailing debt and economic situation in Zambia must not be misconstrued as a financial crisis but should rather be seen as financial responsibility. In his weekly newsletter to News Diggers, Mwila stated that government had instituted various economic interventions to moderate the risk of high debt...

Lusaka businessman Harry Valden Findlay has sued Chishimba Kambwili in the Lusaka High Court seeking damages for accusing him of being a drug dealer and using the Presidential jet to traffic drugs. Findlay, who is further seeking an order of injunction to restrain Kambwili by himself, servants or agents from uttering any defamatory remarks concerning...

National Action for Quality Education in Zambia (NAQEZ) executive director Aaron Chansa has urged teachers to plan for their future and build, instead of waiting to be evicted from a government house with nowhere to go. But Chansa says it is inhumane for retirees to be evicted at 01:00 in the night saying it reflected...

Zambia Association of Manufacturers (ZAM) vice-president Chipego Zulu has called for immediate discussions around the cost of electricity to ensure they are not prohibitive to a point of grounding businesses. And Zulu says the recently announced fuel price increase and imminent electricity tariff hike will inevitably result in increased end user prices of locally manufactured...

A senior clerk of court at the Lusaka Magistrates’ Court has testified that the case record for the woman who originally trafficked in the ephedrine that a magistrate and others are accused of stealing could not be traced when they searched for it in the court register. Didie Kangwa, who is currently on suspension, however,...

National youth chairperson of the de-registered National Democratic Congress (NDC), Charles Kabwita, says it is wishful thinking for PF media director Sunday Chanda to ask Chishimba Kambwili to re-join the PF. Reacting to Chanda's call for Kambwili to “swallow his pride and re-join the ruling party”, Kabwita claimed that the PF wanted to use the...

National women’s soccer team coach Beauty Mwamba has said the low levels of fitness among central defenders is a source of worry for the technical bench. Mwamba said the technical bench summoned four central defenders to replace two others who were committed elsewhere and could not report for duty but discovered later that the replacements...