People’s Alliance for Change president Andyford Banda says it is commendable that President Edgar Lungu has decided to clean up the city but government must disclose its plans for the vendors and marketeers whose structures have been demolished. On Sunday, President Lungu toured some markets in Lusaka, which defence forces have started cleaning on his...

Centre for Trade Policy and Development executive director Isaac Mwaipopo says threats to clamp down operations of the Financial Intelligence Center (FIC) are likely to intensify in 2018. Commenting on Lusaka lawyer Lewis Mosho’s threats to privately prosecute FIC Director General Mary Tshuma on corruption acts alleged to have been committed in her past employment,...

Party of National Unity (PNU) leader Highvie Hamududu says he supports the idea that parastatal companies should not be fully owned by government, as doing so gives room for abuse. Commenting on government decision to partner with an investor in the management and operations of Indeni Petroleum Refinery, Hamududu, the former UPND Bwengwa member of...

President Edgar Lungu says government is resolved to grow the country’s economy by at least five per cent and maintain a stable exchange rate with a single digit inflation in 2018. And President Lungu says he is concerned about the pace at which the delivery of farming inputs is being done. Meanwhile, President Lungu who...

Consumer Unity and Trust Society (CUTS) centre coordinator Chenai Mukumba has challenged the Energy Regulation Board to carry out and publish a December review of wholesale and retail prices of fuel. In a statement to News Diggers today, Mukumba noted that the ERB had only carried out four fuel price reviews instead of six from...

UPND vice-president Geoffrey Bwalya Mwamba (GBM) has described 2017 as Annus horribilis, meaning a year of disaster or misfortune in Latin, and has expressed sorrow to families that lost members on account of political violence. And UPND president Hakainde Hichilema has urged citizens to enter 2018 with renewed vigour and determination towards making Zambia a...

Harry Kalaba says he cannot continue in government and watch those who are expected to end corruption, in the forefront of looting public resources. Announcing his resignation in a statement shared on his Facebook page yesterday, Kalaba said his conscious could not allow him to continue serving as Foreign Affairs Minister in the PF government....

NDC political consultant Chishimba Kambwili says President Edgar Lungu will regret firing Planning and Development Minister Lucky Mulusa when he sobers up. And Kambwili says President Lungu is a failed project who only wants to surround himself with bootlickers. Reacting to Mulusa’s dismissal in an interview yesterday, Kambwili said it was one of the many...

Founding President Dr Kenneth Kaunda says he has visited various provinces and districts of Zambia and the development he has seen is "very heartening". And South African-based Zambian Law Professor Kenneth Mwenda says the leadership pattern in Africa’s new generation is so disappointing because there are not many good stories across the continent to tell....

Minister of Foreign Affairs Harry Kalaba says 2017 will be famous and remembered for the rising tide in corruption and seemingly falling standards of public accountability. In his New Year statement, shared on Facebook yesterday, Kalaba stated that he could no longer fold his arms in silence and watch the impunity of those that made...