President Edgar Lungu annoys me with what he has done to this country, but I don't think that seeing him in prison will make me feel any better, says Alliance for Community Action (ACA) executive director Laura Miti. And Miti says it is wrong to blame the poor people for giving the Patriotic Front a...

President Edgar Lungu will this Saturday open 2018 Agriculture and Commercial Show organisers ACSZ, have announced. Speaking at a press briefing in Lusaka, Wednesday, ACSZ president Caroline Silwamba said the Head of State would officially open the annual showpiece event at the showgrounds on Saturday. She also disclosed that the Society had registered 1,123 exhibitors...

Zambia Amateur Athletic Association ZAAA has applauded a 22 year old mid and long distance runner, Felistus Mpande for exceptional achievements in the three international marathons she competed in. Speaking to Goal Diggers! ZAAA President Elias Mpondela noted Mpande had brought medals to Zambia and her club at large from a number of local and...

More than US $1.3 billion was directly invested into the Zambian property market between 2014 and 2017, says Africa Property Group managing director Carl Johan Collet. And Collet says the huge share of this investment has been by Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) with Lusaka’s retail sector generating a huge chunk of it. According to a...

The International Monetary Fund’s reluctance to finally approve an economic bailout programme for Zambia due to the government’s excessive borrowing is shameful, says All People’s Congress (APC) leader Nason Msoni. And Msoni says if government had any moral conscience, it would have suspended the collection of tolls fees from dilapidated and dangerous roads. Commenting on...

The probability of a sports team winning a league title for three consecutive years and without a game loss is one that has been lived by a few sportsmen and women mainly in Boxing and track events in athletics. The norm has however been defied and changed by Green Buffaloes Judo club.Three seasons of unbeaten...

Veteran politician Vernon Mwaanga says African regional organisations, including the Southern African Development Community (SADC), have failed to commit to the implementation of democratic norms and creating conditions for peace and stability on the continent. Mwaanga observed that the absence of strong democracies, rule of law and human rights institutions had perpetuated insecurity, instability and...

The Consumer Unity and Trust Society (CUTS) International says government should redirect its resources to facilitating farmers’ access to private sector markets in light of the low FRA maize purchase price. Under intense pressure, the Food Reserve Agency (FRA) revised its maize purchase price for the this year’s crop marketing season to K70 per 50Kg...

Government’s move to engage a Turkish company to refinance Zambia’s US $750 million Eurobond may translate into increased costs due to the suspended IMF bailout programme, says the Centre for Trade Policy and Development (CTPD). And newly-elected Economics Association of Zambia (EAZ) president Dr Lubinda Haabazoka has appealed to government to ensure that terms in...

The Lusaka Magistrates' court will today, Thursday, sentence former Ministry of Health human resource manager Henry Kapoko and four others in a matter in which they faced 69 counts of theft by public servant and money laundering involving over K6.8 million. And Principal Resident Magistrate Exornobert Zulu has ordered that all convicts’ properties and accounts...