A station manager at Yatsani Radio Maria has been dragged to the Lusaka Magistrates’ Court for allegedly stealing over K11,000 belonging to the station. In this matter, Patson Semba, 38, is facing one count of theft by servant. Particulars of the offence allege that on April 26, last year, Semba being employed by Radio Maria...

THE Parliamentary Committee on Health, Community Development and Social Services on Monday sent away Ministry of Finance permanent secretary for budget and economic affairs Emmanuel Mulenga Pamu for failure to respond to audit queries on revelations that 8,558 people who received social cash transfer on the pretext that they were disabled, were actually not. According...

Masaiti PF member of parliament Micheal Katambo has dragged his area councilor, Delight Mutale, to the Lusaka High Court, seeking damages for defamation of character for allegedly accusing him of stealing tax payers’ money and abandoning his family. Katambo, who is also Agriculture Minister, is further seeking damages on account of Mutale's actions and damages...

Zambia Information and Communications Technology Authority (ZICTA) Director General Patrick Mutimushi says the authority is still liaising with the line Ministry on the implementation of the 30 Ngwee charge on internet calls. And Mutimushi has refuted reports that the authority has colluded with government to block Nigerian prophet Andrew Ejimadu popularly known as Seer 1...

Minister of Community Development and Social Welfare Kampamba Chewe says her ministry will soon launch a biometric program for the disbursement of social cash transfer in a bid to boost accountability. Last week, Irish Ambassador to Zambia Séamus O’Grady said Irish Aid would not resume support to the social cash transfer until issues of accountability...

Government Parliamentary Chief Whip Brian Mundubile says calls to halt the Chilubi by-election are unreasonable. And Mundubile says both NDC and UPND were not ready for the Chilubi by-election, that is why they keep crying foul at every turn. In an interview, Mundubile, who is the campaign manager for PF in Chilubi said contrary to...

The Copperbelt University Stakeholders’ Union says the Ministry of Labour and Social security should rescind its decision to terminate the recognition agreement between UNZA and UNZALARU because it has left workers destitute. In a statement signed by chairperson of the CBU stakeholders’ union Dr Derrick Ntalasha, Tuesday, the Ministry of Labour had violated the law....

Finance Minister Dr Bwalya Nga’ndu says government will consider doing away with State Owned Enterprises that are in perpetual position of loss making and are not creating any value. Speaking when he received dividends from ZCCM-IH, Tuesday, Dr Ng’andu said government would not help any State Owned Companies which turned to the Treasury for additional...

The UPND has filed a complaint at Masala Police Station against Kabushi PF member of parliament Bowman Lusambo for hate speech against their leader, Hakainde Hichilema. UPND Kabushi constituency chairman Henry Bwalya alleged that Lusambo, who is also Lusaka Province Minister, had been uttering hate speech against Hichilema which he said had potential to set...

Police on the Copperbelt have arrested PF Ndeke ward councilor Aaron Lungu for obtaining money by false pretenses. Copperbelt Police Commissioner Charity Katanga confirmed the arrest. She said Lungu obtained K40,000 cash by purporting that he had a plot for sale. She said Lungu obtained the money from Steven Bwanga, a resident of house No...

Police have arrested two suspects in Lusaka allegedly connected to the gassing of houses when one of them tried to pepper-spray unsuspecting residents in Chudleigh area. And Deputy Inspector General of Police Bonny Kapeso says the service is aware that people are living in fear, hence the decision to put up measures to ensure citizens...

Former Attorney General Musa Mwenye State Counsel says refusal by a defeated regime to surrender power to elected authority amounts to a coup d'état, and has condemned statements from politicians suggesting that they would not give up "the sweet they are enjoying in government after the 2021 general elections". Lusaka Province Minister Bowman Lusambo told...

Zambian students in China have reiterated their earnest appeal to government to evacuate them from that country as the Coronavirus death toll exceeds 1,000. Speaking to News Diggers on the condition of anonymity, some students in Wuhan, which is the epicenter of the novel Coronavirus, lamented that some of them were lockdown at a university...

Residents of Middle West compound in Lusaka West On Monday set a Toyota Corolla ablaze on suspicions that the owner was behind a suspected gassing incident. In a statement, Tuesday, Police spokesperson Esther Katongo stated that the driver of the said Corolla managed to escape from the vehicle before it was burnt. "In the early...

Mopani Copper Mines has refuted reports that the company’s procurement function has been moved to South Africa. In a statement, Monday, MCM public relations manager Nebert Mulenga stated that the reports were fake as all business decisions would solely be managed by the local team at Mopani. “Mopani Copper Mines Plc wishes to dismiss media...

WHENEVER you invite Zambia's founding president Dr Kenneth Kaunda to an event, regardless of the occasion you wish him to attend, when granted an opportunity to speak, he will start or end by saying two things: "Love your neighbour as much as you love yourself" and "do unto others what you would like them do...