THE annual rate of inflation has dropped to 7.4 per cent from 7.8 per cent recorded in May, according to Central Statistical Office data Announcing Zambia’s annual rate of inflation for the month of June, which has dropped to 7.4 per cent from 7.8 per cent in May, CSO acting director of census and statistics,...

State House says Auditor General Ron Mwambwa informed President Edgar Lungu about his decision to resign weeks ago, and as such "there is nothing sinister" about the development. And President Edgar Lungu has complained about a tendency by Zambians "politicising everything on baseless grounds" in order to gain political mileage. Commenting on the resignation of...

United Progressive People (UPP) president Saviour Chishimba says the total extent of looting of national resources from the Rupiah Banda-led MMD regime to the current PF government has reached US$15 billion, which is equivalent to K150 billion. And Chishimba says State House has reduced its dignity to that of conmen when it defended the US$34.5...

Any candidate contesting the forthcoming mayoral by-election in Lusaka because he have no job is only going to participate in the thieving going on in the PF government, says NDC leaders Chishimba Kambwili. Meanwhile Kambwili’s lawyers have rejected the state’s application to tender in photocopied documents as evidence in a matter in which he is...

Economist Chibamba Kanyama says the recently announced austerity measures to stabilise the country’s economy will not produce the desired results if there is no commitment from government. In a statement shared with News Diggers! Kanyama noted that the austerity measures that government had come up with would only be achieved if there was a clear...

Minister of Infrastructure Development Minister Ronald Chitotela says collection of revenue from entry ports during the first quarter of this year jumped to over K186 million, surpassing the K132.4 million collected in the corresponding period last year. Issuing a Ministerial statement rendered to Parliament, Wednesday, on the road tolling programme in the country, Chitotela disclosed...

Hakainde Hichilema is not worth dying for, PF deputy media director Antonio Mwanza has told UPND supporters, whose deputy secretary general Patrick Mucheleka encouraged to defend themselves using any weapon when attacked. And Mwanza has asked the police to cite UPND president Hakainde Hichilema, his vice, Geoffrey Bwalya Mwamba and Mucheleka for inciting party supporters...

When we reported that US$1 million worth of drugs and HIV test kits were stolen from Medical Stores Limited, the Ministry of Health responded that it was not “breaking news” because the government was already handling this matter. Minister of Health Dr Chitalu Chilufya told the nation that government was going to pay back the...

Green party leader Peter Sinkamba says his party has embarked on a strategic plan to build a sustainable resource base and refine its policies ahead of the crucial 2021 general election. And Sinkamba says those calling for the resignation of Mines Minister Richard Musukwa over the death of 10 small-scale miners at the infamous Black...

Lusaka High Court judge Gertrude Chawatama has convicted and sentenced Tshabu Benos to death by hanging for killing her lover Reeves Malambo. This is the matter in which Benos 38, stabbed her lover, Malambo, 48, with a dagger after a fight at her home in Ibex Hill last year. When the matter came up for...