North Western Province Permanent Secretary, who is also former Inspector General of police, Ephraim Mateyo today begged Parliamentary Public Accounts Committee (PAC) Chairperson Howard Kunda to exercise leniency on him as a first offender. This was after it was revealed that North Western Province used funds intended for the financing of Provincial activities to sponsor...

Former UPND vice-president Dr Canisius Banda says he will today report people who have hacked his Facebook account to the police. Around 16:40 hours yesterday, Dr Banda posted a mirror selfie on his official Facebook page which immediately went viral. Unlike most of his satirical quotes, this picture left very little to the imagination -...

United States President Donald Trump says Zambia is a model democracy in Africa. According to a statement issued by Zambia’s First Secretary-Press and Public Relations in Washington DC Cosmas Chileshe, President Trump was speaking when he received Dr Ngosa Simbyakula’s letters of credence at the White House yesterday. Chileshe stated that President Trump also noted...

Luapula Province permanent secretary Bullet Nsemukila yesterday failed to justify why his office failed to take action against an officer who procured goods and services without a procurement plan. When Nsemukila introduced his team to the Parliamentary Public Accounts Committee, he boasted that his officers were very experienced with a good working culture, but later...

A chef and a baker from Choppies Supermarket have been dragged to court for stealing 16 chickens, 20 Hungarian sausages and six kilograms of meat. Obvious Mutembo and Royd Njobvu of Ibex Hill and Mtendere Compound respectively are also alleged to have stolen two five-litre containers of cooking oil and sugar altogether valued at K969,000....

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UPP president Saviour Chishimba says it is an insult for President Edgar Lungu to give K250 and K500 loans to marketers when they could get more than K10,000 each if he suspended his international trips. Yesterday, Presidential Empowerment Fund patron Chanda Kabwe gave K250 and K500 loans to 200 recently gutted Kapalala market traders in...

ZCTU secretary general Cosmas Mukuka says the union is saddened by high levels of sexual harassment in workplaces. And Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (FES) programme manager Kathy Short says sexual harassment victims need counseling because it leaves psychological scars. Meanwhile, International Labour Organisation national project coordinator Elizabeth Simanda says GBV must come to an end because...

Please leave the poor operators of Hiace minibuses and stop increasing the gap between the rich and the poor, Chishimba Kambwili said in parliament today. And Chasefu PF member of parliament Gerald Zimba says Zambia railways is milking money from government as opposed to contributing to the growth of the economy. Meanwhile, Minister of Transport...

Immigration Department Director General Moola Milomo says he cannot explain why government the Chief Executive Officer of Zambia’s second biggest emerald mining company, Gemcanton Investments Holdings because he is out of office. Yesterday, combined team of police and immigration captured and deported Eli Neaffusy. Government sources told News Diggers! that Neaffusy was picked following a...

CTPD executive director Isaac Mwaipopo says instead of moves to weaken the Financial Intelligence Center, government must strengthen it by giving it the mandate to name institutions and individuals involved in illicit financial flows. Commenting on revelations that some criminals were threatening to clump down operations of the FIC, Mwaipopo described the intentions as unacceptable....

Special Assistant to the President for Press and Public Relations Amos Chanda says President Edgar Lungu does not agree with the Constitutional Court ruling, but has not stopped former ministers who are willing to pay back from doing so. And Chanda says President Lungu has made it clear that if the Constitutional Court finds him...

An abortion expert says if prostitution and poverty in Zambia is not controlled, it might lead to a collapse of the country's moral fibre. Speaking when he featured on Kambani radio programme on 5fm today, Ackim Phiri said abortion levels were too high in Lusaka Province. “Our laws state that one can abort. So its...

Government has suspended six accountants from the Ministries of General Education and Finance to pave way for investigations following revelations of theft in the Auditor General’s report. The Auditor General’s report for the year ended 2016 revealed that a Ministry of General Education employee paid himself a total of K2,577,055 in the year ended 2016,...

Lawyers representing the deported CEO of Gemcanton mining limited Eli Nefussy, have written to Minister of Home Affairs Stephen Kampyongo demanding that their client be returned to Zambia before they sue the State. A joint team of police and immigration officers yesterday captured Nefussy and forcibly put him on an Ethiopian Airways plane, under a...

Zambia will play Zimbabwe in an international friendly during this Christmas period. According to the Zimbabwe Football Association (ZIFA), the friendly will be played in Harare to commorate Zimbabwe president Emmerson Mnangagwa's inauguration. “The Zimbabwe Football Association advises the nation that it has in organized a celebratory international friendly match between the senior men's teams...

Government through the Ministry of Finance has released K400 million to pay farmers who supplied maize to the Food Reserve Agency (FRA) for the 2016/17 farming season. Agriculture Minister Dora Silya disclosed this in Parliament yesterday when she responded to a question from Chinsali PF member of parliament Kalalwe Mukosa who wanted to know how...

Inspector General of Police Kakoma Kanganja has cancelled all forms of leave for his officers in order to conduct successful crime prevention activities during the festive period. In a statement today, Kanganja announced that all provincial commanders had deployed enough officers to conduct patrols in crime prone areas. “To ensure that people celebrate their festivities...

The Lusaka Magistrates’ Court has acquitted 10 UPND cadres of riotus behavior charges saying police provoked them by tear-gassing them. Lubinda Simonda and nine others were arrested on December 15, 2016 after the presidential election petition when they went to show solidarity to their leader Hakainde Hichilema and his vice Geoffrey Bwalya Mwamba. Magistrate Nthandose...

Zanaco insist the pressure is on leaders Zesco United heading into the finish line for the 2017 FAZ Super Division title. The defending champions are breathing down Zesco’s neck on 70 and 71 points respectively heading into this Saturday’s title-deciding round. Green Buffaloes too are in that tight race in 3rd place and tied on...

University of Zambia deputy vice chancellor Professor Enala Mwase says military personnel must have a holistic approach to defence and security matters in order for them to be relevant in their field. Speaking when she officiated at the 8th defence and security graduation ceremony held at the Zambia National Service (ZNS) officer's mess in Chamba...

Murder accused Tshabu Benos has told the Lusaka High Court that she did not realise that she had stabbed her lover Reeves Malambo until she saw blood. Testifying before judge Gertrude Chawatama yesterday, Benos said it happened so fast that she only realized what she had done after seeing blood. She said would never have...

In this video, President Edgar Lungu congratulates Kenya for getting through a lengthy electoral process. In his brief remarks during Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta's inauguration yesterday, President Lungu said the world had been worried about Kenya. "I want to speak on behalf of his Exellencies, heads of delegation and indeed all of us who have...