Centre for Trade Policy and Development (CTPD) Researcher Bright Chizonde says the proposed sales tax has the potential to increase prices of goods and services in the country. And Chizonde has observed that government could have revised the Value-Added Tax (VAT) policy on the mining sector alone as opposed to affecting other parts of the...

Copperbelt University Academic Union president Dr Derrick Ntalasha says they do not support the riotous behaviour but has advised government to understand why students riot. And Dr Ntalasha has said Higher Education Minister Professor Nkandu Luo is running away from problems facing the Copperbelt University (CBU) by closing down the institution. Reacting to the government’s...

The Lusaka Magistrate's Court has adjourned to May 31 a case in which PF cadre Chanoda Ngwira has sued News Diggers for allegedly misrepresenting facts in a court case involving Ronald Chitotela, and for alleging that the Infrastructure Development minister is a criminal. The matter came up for plea on Friday, but lawyers from Makebi...

Minister of Health and Mansa Central member of parliament Chitalu Chilufya says Democratic Party leader Harry Kalaba could have been fired had it not been for President Edgar Lungu’s good heart. And Chilufya says President Lungu will rule beyond 2021. Speaking at a campaign rally in Senama area of Bahati Constituency, Dr Chilufya, who is...

Governance Activist Brebner Changala has charged that the Patriotic Front has become too arrogant after looting the country’s Treasury to a point where the party now has more money than government. And Changala says President Edgar Lungu is the only Head of State in the SADC region who has no time to think and plan...

People's Alliance for Change (PAC) president Andyford Banda says the party hopes to pull a surprise by winning this week’s parliamentary by-elections, especially in Roan. And Banda hopes that people will turn up in numbers to vote in the April 11 by-elections in Roan and Bahati constituencies. In an interview with News Diggers!, Banda said...

The problem is that we are a nation of cowards who see things going wrong but just murmur from our blankets, SANAC executive director Gregory Chifire has charged. And Chifire says President Edgar Lungu should sell his two presidential Jets so that he can pay ZAMPOST and Council workers. In a write-up to News Diggers!,...

Luanshya PF member of parliament Steven Chungu on Friday told the people of Kasununu branch of Roan constituency that they will be cursing themselves and their families if they vote for the opposition after promising to elect the ruling party candidate. Meanwhile, Home Affairs Minister Steven Kampyongo told the people to reject the NDC candidate...