Indo Zambia Bank (IZB) has refuted employee grievances that the bank does not pay them housing allowances while those in management positions pay themselves 40 per cent of their salaries for accommodation. On May 23, News Diggers! published a story in which some Indo Zambia Bank employees, through News Diggers! whistle-blower platform, also complained that...

Police in Lusaka have arrested a 48-year-old Turkish national for assaulting his security guard and chaining him to a grill door. According to a statement issued by assistant police public relations officer Godfrey Chilabi, Thursday, Aslan Ayhan also discharged a firearm around 02:00 hours on Wednesday. Police, however, did not explain what caused the incident....

Zambia Airports Corporation Limited Communications and Brand manager Mweembe Sikaulu says the construction works at Kenneth Kaunda International Airport are at 73 per cent overall completion. And Sikaulu says the current terminal will also be refurbished by China Jiangx Corporation later this year. Speaking to journalists shortly after touring on-going works at KKIA, Wednesday, Sikaulu...

Government has granted temporal residence permits to 1,468 former Rwandan refugees at Maheba Refugee Settlement in Kalumbila district of North Western Province, marking the beginning of a process that will lead to local integration of about 4,000 refugees in Zambia. During a ceremony at Maheba Refuge settlement yesterday, Minister of Home Affairs Stephen Kampyongo announed...

A witchdoctor identified as Penias Zulu has testified in the Lusaka Magistrate Court that he was spit on, urinated on, beaten and almost burnt to death together with his wife by a mob led by two known individuals after word went round that he was a witch. Zulu has narrated that his church and some...

NAREP president Elias Chipimo has insisted that President Edgar Lungu abused his office when he accepted land as a gift in eSwatini as it was given to him in his official capacity. On Tuesday, the Council of the Law Association of Zambia issued a contradictory statement on the subject matter; whilst maintaining that the Head...

Rachael Chileshe has rejoined the Patriotic Front saying there is no future in the opposition. Chileshe left the PF to join Miles Sampa's Democratic Front in 2016 and followed him into an alliance with NAREP's Elias Chipimo and then 4th Revolution leader Eric Chanda dubbed the Orange Alliance. When the Orange Alliance crumbled after Sampa's...

The Constitutional Court has ruled that the former Director of Public Prosecution Mutembo Nchito's reliefs sought in a matter where he is challenging his "unlawful dismissal" from the Office of DPP were properly before court. The reliefs Mutembo is seeking are that all actions taken by the President after purportedly relieving him of his duties,...

Aspiring NAREP candidate in next Tuesday’s Chilanga parliamentary by-election Pride Mazabuka says the political situation in the constituency is calm as his team has never been attacked. But United Prosperous and Peaceful Zambia (UPPZ) candidate Francis Kope says his party is being attacked because it has gained momentum on the ground. The duo was speaking...

Tourism and Arts Minister Charles Banda has refuted allegations that Zambia has overturned the 2016 decision to suspend the brutal culling of 2,000 hippos in the world-famous Luangwa Valley. According to a statement availed by Tourism Ministry public relations officer Sakabilo Kalembwe, Banda said the culling quota had been agreed at not more than 250...