• 18 Aug 2020
• Zondiwe Mbewe

DPP enters nolle in MTN attempted arson case

THE Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) has entered a nolle prosequi in a matter where an MTN employee and another were charged with attempted arson. The matter has since been discontinued. In this matter, Kamanyanga Kaseele, an accountant of Woodlands and Chipasha Kamukwamba, a businessman of Lake Road Ibex Hill, were charged with attempted arson...

• 18 Aug 2020
• Sipilisiwe Ncube

2020 census delayed by gassing, COVID-19 - Chiteme

DEVELOPMENT and National Planning Minister Alexander Chiteme says preparation activities ahead of the 2020 national census were delayed due to the gassing incidences and the COVID-19 outbreak. According to a statement issued by ministry spokesperson Chibaula Silwamba, Monday, Chiteme said a number of planned activities had to be postponed thereby affecting the starting of the...

• 18 Aug 2020
• Ulande Nkomesha

Attacks on radio stations by junior govt officials nonsensical - VJ

VETERAN politician Vernon Johnson Mwaanga has described as nonsensical the attempt by junior government officials to close down radio stations for airing opposition leaders. And Mwaanga says it was disappointing that despite many countries in Africa being signatories to the African Union and SADC Principles and Guidelines on elections, many of them have failed to...

• 18 Aug 2020
• Zondiwe Mbewe

Nyirenda takes his expulsion from NAREP to court

EXPELLED National Restoration Party (NAREP) president Steven Nyirenda and three others have dragged the newly appointed party leader Charles Maboshe and others to court seeking a confirmation and declaration that the former was duly elected as NAREP president. Nyirenda and the others further want a declaration that the decision purportedly passed by the defendants that...

• 18 Aug 2020
• Ulande Nkomesha

Don't intimidate ACC, you said your ministers are corrupt, TIZ reminds Lungu

TRANSPARENCY International Zambia says is it strange that President Edgar Lungu is complaining and accusing the Anti Corruption Commission of targeting his ministers when he is the one who told the Commission to investigate his corrupt ministers who were depositing unexplained sums on money in their private accounts. On Sunday, President Lungu accused the ACC...

• 18 Aug 2020
• Ulande Nkomesha

Deputy IG can’t dismiss an officer without  conducting , says Kampyongo

HOME Affairs Minister Stephen Kampyongo says there is no way Deputy Inspector General of Police Bonny Kapeso can discipline the police officer captured having an altercation with a PF cadre without subjecting the mater to investigations. And Kampyongo says the Ministry has managed to issue 169,122 National Registration Cards in the second week of the Mobile...

• 18 Aug 2020
• Natasha Sakala

Kanyama urges BoZ to maintain policy rate

ECONOMIST Chibamba Kanyama has advised the Central Bank to maintain the monetary policy rate as the market is still adjusting to the downward modification which was made in May. In an interview, Kanyama said adjusting the policy rate would be a huge risk on inflation. “I would say they should maintain the policy rate where...

• 18 Aug 2020
• Diggers Editor

News Diggers! ePaper Edition 755 Tuesday August 18, 2020