The latest Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) country report says the Patriotic Front is likely to lose the 2021 elections if opposition political parties formed an alliance. The report suggests that a potential alliance of opposition parties would make victory conceivable given a wave of anti-government resentment over taxes, subsidy cuts and joblessness. This may be...

The Parliamentary Committee on Parastatal Bodies chairperson Peter Daka says the committee will enforce sanctions on parastatals and other state owned enterprises that are performing poorly. And Zambia’s High Commissioner to South Africa Emmanuel Mwamba says State owned enterprises still play a vital role in improving domestic economies. According to a statement issued by First...

Minister of Home Affairs Stephen Kampyongo made a very interesting revelation when he featured on the ZNBC Sunday Interview a few days ago. According to him, criminals are generating fake export documents in order to smuggle Mukula logs out of the country and when they reach the border, they simply say a lie that a...

Vice-President Inonge Wina says she has no intentions of vying for presidency. Featuring on a BBC Focus on Africa television program in London, Tuesday, Vice-President Wina said she had no presidential ambitions whatsoever. This comes at a time when Zambians are considering the possibility of having her as Head of State if President Edgar Lungu...

Zambia has recorded a reduction in the number of deaths arising from road traffic accidents during the first quarter of 2018. And in a statement, Wednesday, Police Spokesperson Esther Mwaata Katongo stated that 7,247 road traffic accidents were recorded in the first quarter of 2018 representing a difference of 179 from the 7,068 accidents recorded...

UPND deputy spokesperson Cornelius Mweetwa says time has come for the Patriotic Front to take leave and allow the UPND to restore the rule of law in Zambia. And Mweetwa, who is also Choma UPND member of parliament, says Home Affairs Minister Stephen Kampyongo should restrict himself to understanding the application of the Public Order...

Former Defense Minister George Mpombo says the political tension between President Edgar Lungu and the opposition UPND leader Hakainde Hichilema has created is an ‘impasse’ that has turned the country ‘topsy-turvy’ where underdevelopment is expected to be the order of the day. In an interview with News Diggers! Tuesday, Mpombo said the political differences between...

Newly-elected Law Association of Zambia president Eddie Mwitwa says his association does not exist to serve the interest of politicians but to always stand by the law. And Mwitwa says it is the expectation of the legal profession that the proposed bills meant to regulate social media usage will not impede citizens’ rights to express...

At the peak of political euphoria, punctuated by social media frenzy over Julius Malema’s farewell speech for Winnie Mandela, Zambia’s election strategist Kelvin Bwalya Fube seems to have heard the signal, released a book and set on a new course. In his book ‘Zambia Must Prosper’, KBF touches on many thorny issues. But without pre-empting...