• 4 Sep 2018
• Mukosha Funga

Lungu is lying, even PF has rejected 30 ngwee - UPND

UPND deputy spokesperson Patricia Mwashingwele has challenged President Edgar Lungu to name the people who he says have accepted the 30 Ngwee internet calling tariff because even his party members have rejected it. And UPND says it is time Zambians put their foot down and stopped the PF from robbing them in broad daylight. On...

• 4 Sep 2018
• Abraham Kalito

LCC closes 12 bars, arrests 10 underage patrons

A combined team comprised of the Lusaka City Council (LCC), public health inspectors, council and state police have apprehended 10 underage patrons and subsequently closed down 12 bars during an operation in Emmasdale’s Devil’s Street. LCC acting public relations manager George Sichimba stated in a statement availed to News Diggers! that the operation was conducted...

• 4 Sep 2018
• Diggers Reporter

Police hunt for Petauke man who advertised a drunk woman’s private part in viral video

Police in Petauke have launched a manhunt for a pimp who filmed a naked drunk woman and fondled her private parts while inviting other men to go and sleep with her. The pimp boasts in a highly graphic video which police are trying to contain from circulating, that he had bought a lot of beer...

• 4 Sep 2018
• Abraham Kalito

Suspected Ebola patient has tested negative - Minister

Health Minister Chitalu Chilufya says his ministry has not recorded any Ebola cases and tests on the man admitted at Levy Mwanawasa Hospital have ruled out the viral disease. Addressing the media in Lusaka today, Chilufya said the Serenje man who was suspected to be suffering from Ebola was found with a blood disease which...

• 4 Sep 2018
• Mirriam Chabala

KCM shouldn’t leave until it pays its debt – mine suppliers

Konkola Copper Mines (KCM) can no longer meet its statutory obligations because the firm has no money, says the Association of Mine Suppliers and Contractors (AMSC). And the Association has suggested that KCM must not be allowed to leave the country even if its business is not thriving, unless it settles all its debts to...

• 4 Sep 2018
• Daniel Chansa

Zambia records 44,000 new HIV infections annually - NAC

The National AIDS Council has revealed that 1,200,000 people in Zambia are HIV positive, making the country the one with the highest burden in sub-saharan Africa. In a presentation at the four days Orientation of DACAs in HIV and AIDS multisectoral Coordination functions in the local Authorities workshop in Ndola, National Aids Council Centralized response...

• 4 Sep 2018
• Mukosha Funga

Speculation around debt crisis injuring Zambia's image - Dora

Chief Government Spokesperson Dora Siliya says there is no debt crisis in Zambia and the austerity measures being rolled out are simply a way to prepare for repayments which will fall due in the next few years. And Siliya says the Higher Education Loans and Scholarship Board's (HELSB) move to ask for repayment from UNZA...

• 4 Sep 2018
• Mirriam Chabala

UNZA, CBU alumni must repay loans - Antonio

Patriotic Front deputy media director Antonio Mwanza says University of Zambia (UNZA) and Copperbelt University (CBU) alumni who benefited from the students loan scheme must pay back without fail. Commenting on the decision by the Higher Education Loans and Scholarship Board to start demanding loan repayment from the UNZA and CBU alumni from as far...

• 4 Sep 2018
• Mirriam Chabala

CCPC warns schools against combining tuition fees with uniforms costs

The Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (CCPC) has warned schools across the country to stop tying tuition fees to the purchase of school requirements directly from schools. CCPC public relations officer Namukolo Kasumpa said in a statement that the practice was disadvantaging the general public because it constituted unfair contract terms, and also distorted the...

• 4 Sep 2018
• Abraham Kalito

Boy, 5, dies after ox-cart overturns

A male juvenile identified as Sylvester Milimo, aged five, has died after the ox-cart he was in hit into a tree and overturned. Police public relations officer Esther Katongo confirmed the development in a statement availed to News Diggers! in Lusaka, Monday. “In Southern Province, a male juvenile identified as Sylvester Milimo, aged five years,...