POLICE on Wednesday officially arrested and charged fellow officers and some PF officials, including the ruling party’s North Western Province chairperson Jackson Kungo, in connection with the theft of gold in Mwinilunga valued at over K24.7 million. According to police sources in Mwinilunga, the five police officers and nine PF officials are expected to appear...

AN INVESTIGATION by the Ministry of Home Affairs has revealed how Lusaka Lawyer Lewis Mosho’s law firm hired three police officers to illegally arrest and deport nine Chinese working for Kingphar Company Zambia Limited. Sources at the Ministry have told News Diggers that the officers lied that they were executing a High Court order, when...

THE University of Zambia is developing a Staff Discipline and Procedure Code which will make “unauthorised communication of confidential university information” a dismissible offence. And UNZA also wishes to make it a dismissible offence for lecturers and other staff members to use social media to post libellous materials "likely to bring the University into disrepute"...

THE Resident Doctors Association of Zambia (RDAZ) has directed all its branches to hold an urgent branch meeting today, following the growing number of health personnel getting infected with COVID-19 and the escalating levels of anxiety among its membership. But Health Minister Dr Chitalu Chilufya says this is not time to arm twist government, or...

INFORMATION Minister Dora Siliya has thrown our Prime TV’s appeal against the Independent Broadcasting Authority (IBA)‘s decision to cancel it’s license, saying the license had already expired. In a letter dated April 23, Siliya said she couldn’t entertain the appeal because there was no existing license at the time IBA made the decision. “It is...

TRANSPARENCY International Zambia (TIZ) says the University of Zambia (UNZA) should not trivialize audits like the one conducted by the Auditor General if the institution is to be brought back in the league of eminent, leading African universities. And TIZ says UNZA management needs to improve its adherence to financial regulations. Meanwhile, TIZ says the...

PRESIDENT Edgar Lungu says Zambians will perish if they don't change their behavior in extraordinary ways during the COVID-19 pandemic. In a Facebook post, Sunday, the Head of State said he was concerned about the rising person-to-person transmissions which had been recorded. "I am very concerned by the new local cases of person-to-person COVID-19 transmissions...

Police in Lusaka have detained Mopani Copper Mines CEO Nathan Bullock after he attempted to leave the country through Kenneth Kaunda International Airport. Immigration sources confirmed the development, saying Bullock was nabbed before he could board his flight to Australia. “Yes, he has been arrested. He was supposed to travel to Australia. We are told...

THE CURRENT University of Zambia management team is incompetent, wasteful, extravagant and lacking in vision, says UNZALARU. And UNZALARU says it is disheartening that the university management’s statement which dismissed a Diggers story as being false and malicious did not provide any responses to critical issues raised in the audit which was carried out. Recently,...

GOVERNMENT has written to Mopani Copper Mines chief executive officer Nathan Bullock informing him of its intentions to revoke mining license for its two units in Kitwe and Mufulira. According to impeccable sources at the Ministry of Mines, this is in retaliation to the mining giant's decision to defy government's directive and placing its Nkana...

A University of Zambia operational performance review audit for the financial year ended 2018 has revealed that the University of Zambia owes over K621 million in respect of terminal benefits, gratuities, and leave days to 2,815 officers that had either retired or were still in employment as of August 2019. Meanwhile, the report has revealed...

AN AUDIT Report for the financial year ended 2018 has revealed that the University of Zambia owes ZRA, NAPSA and Workers Compensation over K2.8 billion in statutory obligations. And the report has revealed that there were 30,657 favourable changes to student results without supporting documentation in 2018. Meanwhile, the audit report has revealed that UNZA...

CHAPTER One Foundation executive director Linda Kaosnde says the provisions of the Disaster Management Act are enough to address the Covid-19 pandemic without having to declare a State of Emergency. Reacting to public calls for President Edgar Lungu to declare a national state of emergency, Kasonde in a statement which was streamed live on her...

Southern Africa Human Rights Defenders Network (SAHRDN) has called on the Judiciary in Zambia to stop persecuting human rights defenders, and has demanded the immediate reinstatement of State Counsel John Sangwa who was barred from appearing in any court of law in the country. In a letter dated 13th March 2020, the Acting Chief Registrar...

JUSTICE Minister Given Lubinda says the adjournment of Parliament is a God-given opportunity for the entire Cabinet to go out and vigorously campaign for Constitution Amendment Bill number 10 of 2019. And Lubinda says the media should not to give unnecessary credit to former Minister of Commerce, Trade and Industry Dipak Patel by suggesting that...

THE United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Independence of Judges & Lawyers Diego García-Sayán has strongly condemned the Zambian Judiciary's move to bar Constitutional Lawyer John Sangwa State Counsel from appearing before any court. On Friday, the Judiciary barred Sangwa from appearing before any court in Zambia pending determination of its complaint against him to...

THE Judiciary has barred Constitutional Lawyer John Sangwa from appearing before any court in Zambia pending determination of its complaint against him to the Law Association of Zambia.  In a notice to all judges of the Supreme Court, Constitutional Court, Court of Appeal, High Court, Registrars and Magistrates today, Acting Registrar Prince Mwiinga announced that...

FORMER Attorney General Abyudi Shonga State Counsel says he will limit his campaign to Law Association of Zambia (LAZ) members because he believes it is an internal matter. In a statement on the upcoming LAZ presidential election shared with News Diggers! Thursday, Shonga said he was constrained from commenting to the public media on the...

University of Zambia lecturer Dr Sishuwa Sishuwa has called for the removal of all Constitutional Court judges for gross misconduct and incompetence. Commenting on constitutional lawyer John Sangwa’s observation that President Edgar Lungu dribbled Zambians when he appointed unqualified individuals as Constitutional Court judges, Dr Sishuwa agreed. He said only individuals who meet the constitutional...

AMERICA-BASED Zambian law Professor Muna Ndulo has insisted that if enacted, the Constitution Amendment Bill 10 of 2019 will install constitutional dictatorship in Zambia and undermine democracy. And Prof Ndulo says Bill 10 attempts to manipulate the electoral system to ensure that the ruling party remains in power in perpetuity Meanwhile, the William Nelson Cromwell...

American Chargé d’Affaires to Zambia David Young says he will be here indefinitely, and has been sent by the US government to come and reinforce ties, promote human freedoms, democracy and economic growth. Speaking when he addressed Embassy staff, Thursday, Young, who takes over from Daniel Foote as interim Head of Mission said the Embassy’s...

Former Attorney General Abyudi Shonga State Counsel will be campaigning against a female contender Mutumu Nzala Mwape for the LAZ presidency, following a decision by incumbent Eddie Mwitwa not to seek re-election at the helm of the Law Association of Zambia. Closing nominations, Thursday, Returning Officer, Robert Simeza State Counsel declared Lungisani Zulu and Ngosa...

The Zambia Revenue Authority (ZRA) has seized goods worth millions of dollars belonging to a Copperbelt based company Zamm Imports Limited, while a search is currently ongoing at the company’s warehouses where loads of goods believed to have been imported dubiously were being stored. The Authority has also seized nine trucks belonging to Zamm Import,...