An investigation has revealed that some Zambian diplomats abroad have been living in plush hotels as their official residences are being renovated, while some have been occupying expensive hotel apartments, despite the official residences being vacant. Zambia’s Ambassador to Belgium Esther Munalula Nkandu has been renting a three bedroom apartment at one of the expensive...

Patriotic Front (PF) Secretary General Davies Mwila has with immediate effect suspended Provincial Chairperson for North Western, Jack Kungo, for corruption allegations committed at Kansenseli Mine in Mwinilunga District. Sources have told News Diggers that the suspended official allegedly colluded with the recently recalled Police Commissioner in the province to conduct suspected illegal mining activities,...

NAPSA says it has constructed a total of 1, 074 low, medium and high-cost housing units in Lusaka and Kalulushi at a cost of about K591 million since 2008. And NAPSA says all the housing units have been sold, except for 48 which have just been placed on offer to prospective buyers. Meanwhile, when asked...

UPND deputy spokesperson Cornelius Mweetwa says it is outrageous for police spokesperson Esther Katongo to threaten to use extra judicial powers on those who will be founding drinking because there is no law that allows them to whip anyone. Last week during a live programme on Diamond TV, Katongo warned that police would whip anyone...

AFRICAN Ministers of Finance have called for a US$100 billion emergency financing and requested debt relief from bilateral, multilateral and commercial partners including from the IMF, World Bank and the European Union amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. They have also called for the creation of a special purpose vehicle which will specifically deal with all sovereign...

IF arresting mealie meal shoppers who buy in bulk is harassment, then I will continue harassing them until we normalize the supply of the commodity, Lusaka Province Minister Bowman Lusambo has vowed. Speaking when he featured on Muvi TV’s Sunrise Breakfast show, Monday, Lusambo claimed that traders in communities were sending young boys to buy...

HIGHER Education Minister Dr Brian Mushimba says institutions of higher learning should grow their own revenue streams through their assets. Speaking in Parliament, Thursday, leader of the Opposition in Parliament Jack Mwiimbu said government had failed to manage public learning institutions and asked Dr Mushimba if the downing of tools by UNZA lecturers would not...

NDC leader Chishimba Kambwili says he is extremely disappointed by Chief Government Spokesperson Dora Siliya's remarks justifying extra judicial killings by the police. On Wednesday, Siliya, who is also Information Minister, told a media briefing that Zambians should be comforted if police shoot at someone in trying to restore order. When journalists asked for government’s...

VICE-PRESIDENT Inonge Wina says government has diverted public resources which were earmarked for certain projects to respond to disasters such as flooding. And Vice-President Wina has appealed to members of parliament to understand government when they do not receive responses for requests made on behalf of their constituencies. Vice-President Wina said this in the National...

UNIVERSITY of Zambia (UNZA) workers unions have downed tools demanding payment of their January and February 2020 salaries arrears. Clad in "black Wednesday" attire, workers from the three unions, UNZALARU, UNZAPROSU, and UNZAWU said they would not go back to work until their two months’ salary arrears are settled at once. The workers who gathered...

Information Minister Dora Siliya says there are only a few instances where government has delayed to pay the salaries for diplomats but that a liquidation plan has already been put in place. And Siliya says Zambians should be comforted if police shoot at someone in trying to restore order. Meanwhile, Siliya says Zambia should start...

HOME Affairs Minister Stephen Kampyongo says police arrested two suspected masterminds of the gassing incidents in the latest raid, bringing the total of those nabbed so far to 26. And Kampyongo says UPND leader Hakainde Hichilema should stop worrying if he has nothing to do with the criminal activities recorded in the country, saying the...

UPND president Hakainde Hichilema says Home Affairs Minister Stephen Kampyongo is trying to implicate him in the gassing in order to prevent him from participating in the 2021 general elections. And Hichilema says he cannot be involved in the gassing of people because he has not live for State House, but has love for Zambians....

UPND spokesperson Charles Kakoma says President Edgar Lungu should not just pray, but take action to ensure that the perpetrators of gassing are brought to book. In an interview, Kakoma said while President Lungu’s prayers for the country were welcome, he ought to take concrete action to weed out the criminals behind the ongoing gassing...

Electoral Commission of Zambia (ECZ) chief electoral officer Patrick Nshindano says the 2021 general election will be highly contested, just like the 2016 one which saw a minimal margin of results between President Edgar Lungu and opposition UPND leader Hakainde Hichilema. And Nshindano says there is a lot to learn from the just-ended Chilubi parliamentary...

UPND secretary general Stephen Katuka says the Internet blackout which occurred in Southern Province last week raises suspicions on how all the three mobile service providers can instantly shut down services at the same time. And UPND deputy spokesperson Cornelius Mweetwa says his party MPs will put a written question to Transport and Communications Minister...

Transparency International Zambia president Rueben Lifuka says the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) should not be sympathetic when investigating the political elite cited in corruption scandals. Commenting on the move by the ACC to investigate Health Minister Dr Chitalu Chilufya for alleged corrupt practices, Lifuka said the ACC should act professionally and restore public confidence. “It is...

Centre for Trade Policy and Development (CTPD) executive director Isaac Mwaipopo says government should put in place practical measures that will put the country on a path of economic recovery. Reacting to last week’s Monitory Policy rate statement by the Bank of Zambia (BoZ) that the country is far from attaining debt sustainability due to...

FOUR people have been killed by mobs in Mapanza, Chilanga, and Kaoma on suspicion that they are gassers. Meanwhile, police in Kabwe and Kaoma have arrested 14 people for murdering suspected gassers in mob justice stunts. Meanwhile, police have rescued a 16-year-old boy of Lusaka’s Matero Township after a mob descended on him on suspicion...

ZAMBIA Conference of Catholic Bishops (ZCCB) president Bishop George Lungu says President Edgar Lungu and UPND leader Hakainde Hichilema must demonstrate the brotherhood they expressed behind the curtains when they met with the church mother bodies. And Bishop Lungu has warned that careless comments on gassing incidents will incite chaos. Speaking at a press briefing...

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has summoned and questioned Health Minister Chitalu Chilufya over corruption allegations. ACC acting public relations manager Dorothy Mwanza revealed in a statement that Chilufya is believed to be in possession of proceeds of crimes, and is under investigation. According to ACC, the Minister who is also Mansa Central member of parliament...

Rainbow Party leader Wynter Kabimba says if the police does not take urgent action against individuals who are giving unsolicited statements that they know the people behind the gassing attacks, the public will be right to speculate that the state is involved. And Kabimba says the Constitution Amendment Bill Number 10 of 2019 has polarized...

Southern Province is experiencing an internet blackout on all three mobile service networks. ZICTA Consumer Protection manager Edgar Mulawuzi has confirmed this in an interview with News Diggers. Mulawuzi said the service providers have already notified the authority and that engineers are on the ground trying to establish the fault. “It’s a network outage. Yes...