Archive: 12 January 2018

12 Jan 2018 | Diggers Editor

Govt of bootlickers, by bootlickers, for bootlickers

Wonders shall never end in the PF government. Therefore, those who are still raising eyebrows over the quality of ministers who are being chased and those who are being hired as replacements, should stop getting […]

12 Jan 2018 | Mukosha Funga Njenga

Kampyongo blames HH for Kanyama riot, as police nab 55

Home Affairs Minister Stephen Kampyongo says UPND leader Hakainde Hichilema must stop categorising the current situation in the country as tension because that is irresponsible. And Kampyongo has announced that police arrested 55 rioters whilst […]

12 Jan 2018 | Mukosha Funga Njenga

5,000 Mukula containers shiped to China since ban – Timber Association

The Zambia Association of Timba and Forestry Based Industries says the association is aware that over 5,000 trucks of Mukula have been exported to China since the ban was announced. And ZATFB says Lands Minister […]

12 Jan 2018 | Mukosha Funga Njenga

I’m not behind move to remove Chief Justice – Mosho

Lusaka lawyer Lewis Mosho says he is not behind moves to oust Chief Justice Irene Mambilima, saying his law firm Lewis Nathan Advocates did not write the letter to Irene Mambilima. Yesterday, News Diggers reported […]

12 Jan 2018 | Mukosha Funga Njenga

Tutwa demands $9m legal fees from PF

Kabwe Central PF member of parliament Tutwa Ngulube has dragged the Davies Mwila to the High Court seeking an injunction restraining the ruling party from expelling him. And Ngulube wants the Patriotic Front to pay […]

12 Jan 2018 | Zondiwe Mbewe

MMD factions resume bickering

Bickering between the Nevers Mumba and Felix Mutati MMD factions has resumed, with the former demanding to take over the party secretariat. The rival national secretaries of the two camps, Elizabeth Chitika and Raphael Nakacinda […]

12 Jan 2018 | Zondiwe Mbewe

Shots fired in Kanyama riot

Police have fired gunshots in Kanyama to disperse angry mobs of rioting residents. And a contingent of soldiers has since been deployed in the area to help contain the unrest. Kanyama residents are rioting following […]

12 Jan 2018 | Sipilisiwe Ncube

ZAF commander commits to “silencing guns by 2020”

Zambia Air Force Commander Lt.Gen. Eric Chimese says Zambians possessing illegal weapons should hand them over to the State without worrying about being prosecution. Speaking during the end of the Special Technical Committee on Defence, […]

12 Jan 2018 | Mirriam Chabala

Tutwa begs Lungu to withdraw threat against aggrieved members

Tutwa Ngulube says the President must immediately retract his statement that all PF members who do not agree with the ruling party policies must leave. And Ngulube says he know Kabwe PF officials are meeting […]

12 Jan 2018 | Mukosha Funga Njenga

Mwiinga’s dismissal smells tribalism – Wynter

The PF leadership is treating everyone who is from Southern Province as a UPND member who must be removed from government, Rainbow Party leader Wynter Kabimba has observed. Kabimba was commenting on President Lungu’s decision […]