NDC Leader Chishimba Kambwili says President Edgar Lungu should save himself by not contesting the 2021 elections because he will be so shocked, he will get into a comma. On Tuesday, President Edgar Lungu dared the opposition to increase the winning threshold from 50 per cent plus one to 60 per cent plus one, boasting...

Minister of Higher Education Professor Nkandu Luo says Copperbelt University will only be reopened when the institution secures high security systems that will prevent “hooligans” from destroying property. Speaking at a press briefing this morning where she announced the indefinite closure of the institution, Prof Luo narrated that the fracas at CBU began on April...

Vespers Shimunzhila's mother yesterday burst into tears after a Clinical Officer General from the University of Zambia Clinic told the Coroners' Court that he did not find any life in her daughter after carrying out an examination. And a third year Law student at the University of Zambia has testified that when the students carried...

Those of you who are stupid and foolish in speculating rumours, both inside our party and outside our party, must stop it! UPND vice-president Geoffrey Bwalya Mwamba (GBM) fumed at a press briefing, Thursday. Meanwhile, UPND president Hakainde Hichilema refuted reports that the UPND is planning to replace GBM with NDC’s Chishimba Kambwili. A Facebook...

UPND secretary general Stephen Katuka has appealed to Zambians to join hands with his party to stop the unwarranted manoeuvres by the Patriotic Front to silence the independent media in the country. In the UPND’s newsletter to News Diggers! Katuka noted that private media was already terrified and intimidated by the recent events involving Prime...

A 30-year-old Lusaka man has been sentenced to five years imprisonment with hard labour for stealing his sister's cow worth K2,500. In this matter, Kebby Chilwesa of Mungule in Lusaka, was facing one count of stock theft and was found guilty of the offence by the Lusaka Magistrates' Court. Particulars of the offence were that...

Convicted Rainbow Newspaper editor-in-chief Derrick Sinjela says he hopes he will be released on Presidential pardon, adding that the media is a mirror of society which should not be broken. Sinjela was sentenced to one-year-six-months simple imprisonment by the Supreme Court last year in September for contempt of court. Speaking to court journalists who visited...

Democratic Party president Harry Kalaba says government has sent workers into destitution by failing to pay their salaries for months and later on subjecting them to violence from PF cadres for merely protesting over none payment. And Kalaba has warned that political violence being perpetuated by by Patriotic Front (PF) cadres will have serious consequences...