With the launch of the Keep Zambia Clean, Green and Healthy by His Excellency Mr. Edgar Lungu, Trade Kings - Zambia’s largest fast moving consumer goods manufacturer - conveyed their congratulations to his Excellency Mr. Edgar Chagwa Lungu on launching a campaign that looks to change the face of the country with monthly clean-up activities....

Zambians have now become beggars eating crumbs that are dropping from the rich man’s table says former Secretary to the Cabinet Dr Sketchley Sacika. And Dr Sachika says politicians in Zambia have engaged in meaningless politics because they don’t know what’s good for the country. Speaking to News Diggers! in an interview, Dr Sachika who...

Nevers Mumba has threatened to sue the Zambia Centre for Inter-party Dialgue (ZCID) for allegedly tempering with records at the Registrar of Societies and placing Felix Mutati as MMD president against court orders. And Mumba has charged that the ZCID is not qualified to host the dialogue talks amongst political parties, saying the institution is...

Zambia risks defaulting on its debt repayments because the country has no significant repayment mechanism to do so, says the Centre for Trade Policy and Development. And the Centre for Trade Policy and Development (CTPD) says most Zambians are not tax compliant owing to high taxes which he said act as a burden towards savings...

Civil Society for Constitutional Agenda (CiSCA) Chairperson John Mambo says President Edgar is running Zambia like his farm because he does not take time to meet his employers and respond to their queries. And Bishop Mambo says President Lungu will run away from Zambian when his term of office ends because he will fail to...

ZANACO Plc says it has set up a credit guarantee scheme that will lower interest rates on credit facilities for SMEs from next month. Speaking following the launch of the bank’s refreshed brand, Zanaco Managing Director and CEO, Henk Mulder, observed that lending rates on loan facilities remained unaffordable for consumers, hence the move undertaken...

USAID Mission Director in Zambia Patrick Diskin says strides made so far in the fight against malaria have lessened the historical toll that the infection has placed on the country’s health systems. Diskin is, however, concerned that malaria has remained the major killer of young children in Zambia, adding that during pregnancy, the disease can...

Chief Government Spokesperson Dora Siliya says the Treasury has released K200 million to clear debt owed to small scale contractors. And Siliya has encouraged political parties to practice intra-party democracy. Speaking at a media briefing yesterday, Siliya announced that the K200 million which was released by the Ministry of Finance had been paid out to...

I know that you Zambians have not had an easy year, so please bring all your problems to me tonight so that you can laugh and get a new life on Monday as you go to work, says celebrated queen of African comedy Anne Kansiime. Speaking when she addressed journalists at the Best Plus Hotel...

The outcome of the April 24, local government by-elections where the ruling Patriotic Front scooped the majority of seats has come as a surprise to some people. They are wondering why a suffering population would still give a vote to a political party that has caused them so much misery. Well, we are not surprised....