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...