President Edgar Lungu is today expecting a visit by first female Commonwealth Secretary General Rt Honourable Patricia Scotland from London to discuss politics, governance issues and the Commonwealth report. And President Lungu yesterday met with First Quantum Minerals Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Philip Pascal to discuss the mining fiscal policy. According to President Lungu's...

United Party for National Development (UPND) Spokesperson Charles Kakoma says arresting an opposition leader for criticising the President is unthinkable in a democratic country. And Kakoma says President Edgar Lungu’s authoritarian rule and intolerance to divergent views is taking the country on a destructive path. In a statement yesterday, Kakoma noted that the arrest of...

A panel of court of appeal judges has reserved ruling to October 31, 2017 in a matter in which 46 UPND members of parliament renewed their application in challenging the decision of the Speaker of the National Assembly to suspend them from the House. And the Constitutional Court has reserved ruling to a date to...

A police officer with 15 years experience yesterday failed to cite any law which states that moving with glycerin and a knife is an offense as he claimed in his testimony. This is in a matter in which Remmy Mukoba and three are facing two charges of being in possession of offensive weapons. The accused...

Court of Appeal judge Catherine Makungu has dragged a Congolese tailor to the Lusaka Magistrates’ Court for allegedly stealing her six-metre chitenge material valued at K350. It is alleged that Andrew Choma, who runs his tailoring business from Lusaka City Market, on dates unknown but between July 1 and 8 stole judge Makungu’s six-metre chitenge...

The Road Development Agency (RDA) has terminated the contracts of Communication and Corporate Affairs Director Loyce Saili as well as Director for Legal affairs Mwaka Ngoma. Saili told News Diggers! in an interview that she was separated from the Agency but refused to give details of the circumstances that led to her termination of contract....

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