The Drug Enforcement Commission (DEC) has arrested a 42 year old Nigerian Prophet Isaac Julius Amata, for trafficking in 26.29kg of Ephedrine. Ephedrine is a medication and stimulant often used to prevent low blood pressure during spinal anaesthesia. It has also been used for asthma, narcolepsy, and obesity. However, it is not the preferred treatment...

Patriotic Front media director Sunday Chanda has warned that National Democratic Congress (NDC) leader Chishimba Kambwili will soon regret his foul mouthed politics which he "childishly continues to display". And Chanda says Kambwili should not blame President Edgar Lungu for the criminal charges against him because the Head of State was not with him when...

Police in Lusaka have shot dead four dangerous criminals believed to have staged a robbery in Kalundu area along Mulungushi Road. According to a statement issued yesterday by Police Spokesperson Esther Katongo, the incident happened on Tuesday afternoon after officers received a tip from members of the public notifying them that a group of six...

When you come to the Copperbelt Province, you can even see on your own that here there is a minister who is in control, says provincial minister Bowman Lusambo. Responding to a caller who wanted to find out why the minister had given too much powers to cadres when he featured on ZNBC’s Government Forum,...

Police in Solwezi have retrieved a body of a 33 year old missing person from Chijingejinge compound identified as Gilbert Banda. And the body has since been buried at Kimiteto Cemetery, marked for future exhumation by state pathologists. North Western Province Police Commissioner Auxensio Daka disclosed in a statement that the deceased was reported missing...

We have noted with regret that there is an attempt by the Patriotic Front government to sanctify tribalism and label those who question their regional politics as “tribalists” themselves. The PF leadership has been fueling a notion that the people of Southern Province are tribalists and that if the United Party for National Development (UPND),...

Zambia’s High Commissioner to South Africa Emmanuel Mwamba has called for a meeting with Amnesty International to discuss an alert the organization issued on satirical singer Fumba Chama alias Pilato. And Ambassador Mwamba has written to South Africa's African Department of International Relations and Corporation, to ensure that vegetables and dairy products for export are...

President Edgar Lungu has created new positions in the Ministries of Foreign Affairs and General Education at Permanent Secretary level to which he has appointed Dr Ronald Simwinga and Dr Felix Phiri respectively. Meanwhile, President Lungu has asked law enforcement agencies to act swiftly on any reports of malpractice. This is according to a statement...

I wish to respond to Diggers opinion on the matter where I am quoted as saying that the people of Zambia ought to vote for people who are already rich because they will not steal public resources when they form Government. Let me begin by stating that, it is a fact that ' Charity begins...

Information Minister Kampampa Mulenga says if her predecessor Chishimba Kambwili was clever, he should have recorded President Edgar Lungu giving orders to single Star Times for the controversial Digital Migration contract. But Mulenga has admitted that the Digital Migration contract was not subjected to competitive bidding before being awarded to Star Times of China, adding...

Former FDD spokesperson Antonio Mwanza says he has nothing but love for his former boss Edith Nawakwi. And Mwanza says there is nothing which has changed about him, he is still the same politician fighting for people's well being. Mwanza was reacting to Nawakwi's remarks on his defection where she wondered how he would switch...

Local Government Minister Vincent Mwale says it would be inconsiderate for government to ban vendors who sell newspapers and talk-time in Lusaka's Central Business District. On Tuesday, soldiers who are patrolling the city to maintain sanity harassed newspaper vendors, tore the newspapers they were selling and detained those who challenged them. One bystander took out...