The narrative that exists regarding the dangers of police work in our country continues to create a sense of fear among people. Mix that with guns and too much authority, you have a long lasting problem. We, all of us, have this problem. The hyper-violent policing that is practiced in this country is a disgrace....

The Ministry of General Education says there is a senior teachers' union official who is using head teachers and provincial education officers to destabilise the ministry and government by influencing civil servants to resist transfers. In a statement issued yesterday, Ministry of General Education spokesperson Nondo Chilonga warned that officers found perpetrating such vices would...

A potentially damaging constitutional crisis is brewing in the Zambia Rugby Union (ZRU) with stakeholders calling for elections for a new executive at the Annual General Meeting set for February next year while the secretariat is adamant the polls will only take place in 2019. The Clement Sinkamba-led ZRU executive was elected into office in...

Musician turned politician Saboi Imboela says it will be hard for the UPND to win the 2021 elections if they focus on “small” issues like her defection to newly formed National Democratic Congress. On Monday, UPND secretary general Stephen Katuka said the largest opposition party was not affected by Imboela’s defection because she was an...

Roan PF member of parliament Chishimba Kambwili has sued the Times of Zambia and its reporter Chila Namaiko in the Lusaka High Court for defamation of character. Kambwili is demanding exemplary damages over a what he termed as a false and libelous statement published in the newspaper and attributed to PF cadre Munir Zulu. In...

UNIP President Tilyenji Kaunda says the Anti-Corruption Commission must be sleeping on their job if they are unable to know when investigations are being conducted on senior government officials. And Kaunda says it is not the duty of the President to give instructions to oversight institutions like ACC and the Police on who to investigate...

Copperbelt University Student's Union President Njikho Musuku says calm has returned at the institution after Students got their meal allowances on Friday last week. "The students were paid on Friday, she (the Minister of Higher Education) lifted the ban on meal allowances on Wednesday. Everything is now back to normal, people are going to class,...

CTPD executive director Isaac Mwaipopo says government should extend the Financial Intelligence Centre (FIC)’s mandate and give it powers to reveal names of individuals and institutions that it investigates. Speaking to News Diggers in an interview regarding the work of the FIC and the challenges it was facing, Mwaipopo observed that it was not enough...

National Democratic Congress (NDC) Secretary General Mwenya Musenge says it is time Zambians opened their eyes and stopped the looting of public resources among government officials in the PF administration. And Chishimba Kambwili says Zambia has a John Walker President who spends his time travelling, adding that as soon as he becomes Head of State,...

Rainbow party General Secretary Wynter Kabimba says the entire 2016 amended Constitution is a "damn useless thing" and not just a matter of some lacunas as Justice Minister Given Lubinda is describing it. And kabimba says the provision of the Constitution that guarantees immunity for a sitting President from prosecution must be removed because it...