Police in Central Province have arrested a 39 year old suspected mental patient for allegedly murdering a five months old baby. Meanwhile, Police in Lusaka have arrested a 37 year old man for allegedly administering suspected poisonous substance to his one year 11 months old son after an argument with the victims mother. In a...

High Court judge Edward Musona has verified that the Munali violence video which was resubmitted is an exact copy of the original one which he watched during trial. Judge Musona said the video, which led him to nullify Professor Nkandu Luo’s seat, was authentic. This is a case in which Prof Luo appealed the nullification...

Lunte PF member of parliament Mutowe Kafwaya says it was unfair to Zambians that the US$42m fire tenders were insured at a cost of US$250, 000 each when they were procured at US$1 million. And Kafwaya says UPND cannot run a country because they have failed to run their party. Speaking when he featured on...

Rainbow Party General Secretary Wynter Kabimba says FQM's Kalumbila Mine was able to evade tax for a period of five years because of the incompetence and rampant corruption within the Zambia Revenue Authority. And PeP president Sean Tembo has observed that if ZRA collected all the tax which was due to the treasury from the...

Industrial Development Corporation (IDC) Chief Executive Officer Mateyo Kaluba on Wednesday had a tough time justifying wastage of over K670,000 by Indeni Oil Refinery on consultancy services it did not need. According to the latest report of the Auditor General on parastatals, Indeni wasted K674,898 on consultancy services on the review of organisational structure as...

Roan PF member of parliament Chishimba Kambwili will not appear in court today for medical reasons. Yesterday, the NDC leader was arrested and charged with two counts of obtaining pecuniary advantage and 37 more of being in possession of money reasonably suspected to be proceeds of crime at Woodlands Police Station. However, around 21:00 hours,...

A mob of Lusaka's Bauleni Compound residents yesterday descended on a 48-year-old man whom they suspected was a ritual killer and set his car ablaze. During the fracas, two shops were also looted in the area. Police spokesperson Esther Mwaata Katongo confirmed the incident in a statement, narrating that the man, whose name she withheld...

President Edgar Lungu has told his Lusaka Province Minister Bowman Lusambo to reflect on his conduct as he serves his 30-day suspension from Parliament, instead of boasting that he does not regret slapping Roan PF member of parliament Chishimba Kambwili. And President Lungu says his marriage with First Lady Esther is not on the rocks...

The Parliamentary Committee on Parastatal Bodies yesterday expressed delight and satisfaction over audit responses from the Energy Regulation Board (ERB) regarding the new records keeping system. This was when controlling officers from the Ministry of Energy led by Permanent Secretary Brig Gen Emelda Chola and ERB executive director Langiwe Lungu appeared before the said committee...

Zambia Council for Social Development (ZCSD) executive director Lewis Mwape says Zambians should forget about development in the country so long as President Edgar Lungu continues to be in State House. Mwape told News Diggers in an interview that President Lungu was not concerned about the wellbeing of Zambians but was preoccupied with privileges that...