Netball Association of Zambia (NAZ) has expressed happiness that the National Sports Council of Zambia (NSCZ) has for the first time in more than five years nominated a netball player for the 2018 Sports Person of the year award. Diana Banda, a Zambia Correctional Service officer who plays netball for Prison Leopards is nominated for...

TP Mazembe yesterday (Wednesday) announced the appointment of Charles Musonda as assistant coach of the professional team and young people’s team, in charge of specific training. The 49-year-old Zambian has been integrated in the technical staff led by Pamphile Mihayo and assisted by David Mwakasu and Robert Kidiaba. Zamfoot, an online publication run down a...

ZNBC unionized employees have resolved to drag management to court over the broadcaster's failure to increase their salaries for the year 2018. In an interview with News Diggers! Zambia Union of Broadcasters and other Information Disseminators (ZUBID) Andrew Mpandamwike said if management has failed to run the institution, they should give chance to capable individuals...

Democratic Party (DP) presidential candidate Harry Kalaba has asked Zambians to rally with the party up to and beyond 2021 to achieve a just and equitable Zambia. And Kalaba says the DP presents a transformative agenda to change the political systems and re-establish trust in government by having value-driven leadership. In DP’s newsletter to News...

Pharmaceutical Society of Zambia president Jerome Kanyika says the move by the Zambia Medical Regulatory Authority (ZAMRA) to close 40 non-compliant pharmacies in Lusaka is brave. In an interview, Kanyika said it was also a danger and serious offence for the closed pharmacies to be dispensing drugs to patients without qualified pharmacists. Last week, ZAMRA...

NDC leader Chishimba Kambwili says his party will easily take over Copperbelt Province because the newly elected PF provincial leadership holds no impact. And Kambwili says it is a waste of public resources for President Edgar Lungu to be flying out of the country to resolve political differences of other countries when he has failed...

Movement for Multi-Party Democracy (MMD) youth Prince Ndoyi has condemned the action by the three Church mother bodies to proceed with the consultative dialogue meeting without the involvement of other political parties. Ndoyi has accused the leaders of the three church mother bodies of driving an 'opposition agenda.' In a statement, Ndoyi argued that the...

Patriotic Front (PF) media director Sunday Chanda has likened the recently-formed opposition alliance to the “Tower of Babel”, a Scriptural myth that explains why people in the world speak different languages. According to a Biblical story told in the Book of Genesis 11 vs 1-9, a united humanity in the generations following a great flood,...

There is one advantage that an older person has over a younger person. It is that an older person has been young before. But a young person has never been old before. That advantage that an older person has is what we call experience. Experience should be able to inform an older person’s decision making....

Outgoing First Quantum Minerals (FQM) director of operations Matt Pascal says the decision to lay-off some of its staff is to ensure the mining company is not taxed to death. And Pascal has revealed that FQM is still owed over US $400 million in VAT refunds by the Zambia Revenue Authority (ZRA), a situation that...