Party of National Unity (PNU) president Highvie Hamududu says government must find a lasting solution to escalating prices of mealie-meal outside market forces. And Hamududu, in an interview, also stressed the need for government to move maize from surplus areas to deficit regions for people to access the commodity at cheaper prices. He has further...

The Lusaka Magistrates’ Court has sentenced a 38-year-old builder of Mtendere township to six months imprisonment with hard labour for beating a man he accused of having sex with his wife. In this matter, Peter Bwalya was charged with assault and had pleaded guilty. Particulars of the offence were that on August 6 this year,...

UPND secretary general Stephen Katuka says Zambia has an absentee President with no grain of knowledge on how to address the numerous problems facing citizens. And Katuta says instead of addressing the high cost of mealie-meal prices, which Zambians are grappling with, the President is preoccupied with globe-trotting with a huge delegation. In a statement,...

Mufulira Wonderers players have absconded training in protest to non payment of transitional league season allowances, two days before the 2019/2020 FAZ/MTN super league kicks off on 31 August. Players from the club who sort anonymity told Goal Diggers that the club has not paid allowances to the players for close to 10 months. The...

UPND secretary general Stephen Katuka has called on the international community to intensify pressure on the ruling PF regime to take the right course and save Zambians from an impending socio-economic disaster. And Katuka says the candid manner in which outgoing British High Commissioner to Zambia Fergus Cochrane-Dyet openly expressed his serious concerns about the...

Renowned economist Professor Oliver Saasa says government’s determination to eventually implement the Goods and Services Tax (GST) on January 1, 2020, will eventually result in killing the mining sector because costs of production will drastically increase. In a statement issued to Mining for Zambia, a Chamber of Mines initiative, Prof Saasa cautioned against rushing to...

Financial Intelligence Centre (FIC) Director General Mary Chirwa has called on stakeholders to help make Zambia hostile to perpetrators of illicit financial flows. And Chirwa says illicit financial flaws are a drain on state resources, reduce efforts to enhance domestic resource mobilization and cancel out investment inflows. She was speaking when she officially opened the...

Luapula Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) forum chairperson Nsama Kearns has refuted claims that the people of Luapula have agreed to the proposed Constitution Amendment Bill No. 10 of 2018. In an audio, which circulated on social media yesterday, Kearns said Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI) president Andrew Ntewewe should not speak on behalf of the people...

Chishimba Kambwili should not blame PF for the cancellation of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) certificate but must instead own up and apologise to those who toiled to build the party, says Mwenya Musenge. And Musenge has asked Zambians to ignore Kambwili’s accusations that he intends to launch a new party called Zambia Our Own...

Police in Lusaka have arrested National Democratic Congress (NDC) leader Chishimba Kambwili and charged him with Defamation of the President contrary to section 69 of the Penal Code. This is in connection with a statement recently made by the former Chief Government spokesperson where he said “...not ishi imbwa shabantu, yaleikalafye ku Chawama…” during a...