MMD-faction president Nevers Mumba says his trip to India was not organised by government but was facilitated by his own party working in conjunction with his international partners. And Mumba has emphasised that his party will not engage in any political alliances for now, not even with the ruling Patriotic Front, insisting that the former...

UPND Northern Province chairperson Nathan Illunga says the provincial administration has failed to explain how funds for the 2018 Northern Province Tourism and Investment Expo have been utilised. But Northern Province Permanent Secretary Elias Kamanga described the accusations by the UPND as crazy because decisions on the awarding of contracts for projects related to last...

The Lusaka High Court has dismissed an application in which PF Secretary General Davies Mwila was seeking to challenge Speaker of the National Assembly Dr Patrick Matibini over his refusal to declare Chishimba Kambwili’s Roan constituency seat vacant. High Court Judge Mwila Kombe ruled that the application was improperly before her court as it was...

Police in Eastern Province have launched investigations into the forged bank notes amounting to K5,100 that were allegedly deposited into Cavmont Bank in Chipata by a walk-in customer named Nebert Sakala who is currently on the run. The command has, in the meantime, arrested three people in connection with a break in that occurred at...

Former World Bantamweight Champion (WBC) Catherine Phiri will challenge current champion Fatuma Zareka for the title in Nairobi on March 23, Oriental Querries Boxing promotion manager Christopher Malunga announced yesterday. Phiri lost the WBC title in 2017 to 37-year-old Marian Juarez on unanimous points to surrender the belt to the Mexican. But Malunga told journalists...

All People’s Congress (APC) president Nason Msoni says the insistence by the UPND that their government will comprise of their party alone is undermining the collective effort of other political parties in recently-formed opposition alliance. Msoni told News Diggers! in an interview that the continued bragging by the UPND that they were ready to rule...

Police have apprehended one person who attempted to steal a motor vehicle from the University of Zambia (UNZA) Great East Road campus. In an interview with News Diggers! Police spokesperson Esther Katongo said three other suspects were on the run, and that police had instituted a man hunt to catch them. She, however, said the...

The Lusaka Magistrates' Court has placed a 38-year-old man of George Compound on his defence for allegedly sexually abusing his seven year-old biological son. This followed testimony from a medical doctor at UTH Paediatric Hospital who told the Court that after the boy reported to her that his father used to abuse him, she proceeded...

Zambia’s Under-23 national team coach Beston Chambeshi has selected 30 local players for a residential camp ahead of the March 20 first leg AfCON qualifier against Malawi. The team will be in camp twice on January 28-31 and on the weekend of February 11. Chambeshi added that he would also include foreign-based players later to...

Lundazi Central Independent member of parliament Lawrence Nyirenda has been accused of championing violence against the opposition UPND campaign team in Munkomba ward in Lundazi ahead of next month's by-elections. According to both the UPND media team and UPND Eastern Lundazi campaign chairman Felix Ngoma, Nyirenda on Tuesday led a gang of violent PF cadres...