Zesco managing director Victor Mundende says electricity tariffs will reduce again once the utility has managed to clear off the loans it has acquired for purposes of increasing generation capacity. And Mundende told a media briefing today that Zesco did not intend to exploit its customers, but to empower the utility with enough capacity to...

Zambia Union of Financial Institutions and Allied Workers (ZUFIAW) president Ackim Mweemba has asked Minister of Finance Felix Mutati to cut Pay As You Earn (PAYE) by 2.5 per cent. In a statement issued today, Mweemba said reduced Pay as You Earn would give relief to the already stressed workers. “As the minister prepares to...

Zambia Under 17 midfielder Lameck Banda has been handed his senior debut call-up for Chipolopolo's penultimate 2018 FIFA World Cup Group B qualifier away to Nigeria on October 7 in Uyo. Banda is one of the provisional 20-member domestic list which coach Wedson Nyirenda released on Wednesday. Banda inspired Zambia to its debut triumph in...

A senior member of the Forum for Democracy and Development (FDD), has expressed deep concern about the leadership vacuum in the opposition political party. FDD president Edith Nawakwi has been in hibernation since the 2016 general elections in which she polled a paltry 24,149 votes out of a total 3,781,505 votes cast. Commenting on Nawakwi's...

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Beatrice Hangwende has sued her ex husband Jonathan Mwala in the Lusaka High Court for selling a piece of land she had reserved as her children's inheritance without her consent. In a statement of claim today, Hangwende, who is currently incarcerated at Lusaka Central Prison for murdering Mwala's lover Monica Phiri in 2007, jointly sued...

The opposition UPND today complained to Speaker of the National Assembly Dr Patrick Matibini that the newly installed IT system was not giving them a chance to ask questions in the House. And Speaker Matibini today took on Sports minister Moses Mawere for lying in Parliament. Rising on a point of order, UPND Kabompo member...

ZNFU says farmers must be patient because the union will only engage President Edgar Lungu on his promise to relook the maize market price once he returns from the UN General Assembly. Zambia National Farmers Union president Jervis Zimba told News Diggers! that the union had not yet met President Lungu to discuss the upward...

A 20-year-old man of Lusaka’s Kanyama area has been sentenced to three years imprisonment with hard labour for stealing an AK47 from a police station. Lusaka magistrate Brian Simachela sentenced Ronald Makumbi after he readily admitted to the charge yesterday. Facts in this matter are that between July 1 and 12, 2017 with intent to...

A community in Lusaka's Chalimbana area has threatened to sue government for encroaching on a forest reserve where the Zambia Air Force has built staff houses and another developer is turning the land into an affluent suburb. In a letter addressed to the Attorney General and the Commissioner of Lands and dated September 12, 2017,...