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...

Ministry of Information and Broadcasting Services Permanent Secretary Chanda Kasolo says Zambians have propelled corruption to the very top of the country’s agenda, which makes the vice appear as if it only exists in Zambia when the scourge is worldwide. And Kasolo has insisted that resources are available to deal with the food insecurity that...

The Zambia National Federation of the Blind (ZNFB) has dragged three members of its executive committee to the Lusaka High Court seeking an order of interim injunction restraining them from professing to be executive members. The Federation and five others have sued James Mwitwa, Lazarus Chileya and Evelyn Mwewa as defendants, seeking a declaration that...

Lusaka Magistrate Nsunge Chanda yesterday warned National Democratic Congress (NDC) party president Chishimba Kambwili to tone down when appearing before her court. Magistrate Chanda said she had received an application against Kambwili, but could not disclose what it was about, and only advised him to tone down, saying his behaviour was important when appearing in...

The Law Association of Zambia (LAZ) has rejected the invitation by the National Assembly to appear before the parliamentary Select Committee to scrutinize the proposed Constitution Amendment Bill No. 10 of 2019 because the matter is already before the Constitutional Court (ConCourt). In its letter dated August 23, 2019, addressed to the Clerk of the...

Air France KLM Martinair Cargo has announced a resumption of its freight services into Lusaka from Amsterdam in September, 2019, since stopping the service back in 2016. In a statement issued from its Amsterdam Schiphol headquarters, Air France KLM Martinair Cargo communications and cargo press relations manager, Gerard A. Roelfzema, stated that freight cargo services...

Zambian Breweries Plc has posted increased of profits after tax of K193 million in the half-year period ending June 30, 2019, partly triggered by increased sales in clear beer. And Zambian Breweries says that despite Zambia’s ongoing economic challenges, the rapid growth of the middle-class remains an opportunity, particularly in their premium brands segment. In...

Law Association of Zambia president Eddie Mwitwa has asked the Constitutional Court to restrain the National Assembly from continuing with the legislative process to enact the Constitutional (Amendment) Bill No.10 into law, pending determination of the petition. Mwitwa says unless temporarily restrained by the court, the Constitutional (Amendment) Bill No. 10 will be enacted it...

A tile fitter at the Zambia Air Force (ZAF) has testified that he fitted tiles at the nine flats and a storey building in Lusaka’s Ibex Hill area that former ZAF Commander Lieutenant General Eric Chimese is accused of possessing, shortly before being employed as a civilian in the air force. Katema Chulu, 45, however...

Chief Justice Irene Mambilima has sworn in a five-member team of the Lusaka Province Local Government Planning Appeal Tribunal. Speaking at the swearing-in ceremony at the High Court grounds in Lusaka, Wednesday, Justice Mambilima urged members of the Tribunal to work with dedication and ensure that all appeal cases were determined in the fastest possible...

Vice-President Inonge Wina has stopped government officials from issuing conflicting statements on the escalating mealie meal prices, saying the Minister of Agriculture or the Chief Government spokesperson will make all communication on the issue. And Vice-President Wina has directed that only state security wings should issue statements on mealie meal smuggling. In a statement issued...

Yesterday, we showed how government was playing double standards by blaming private millers and retailers for the escalating mealie meal prices when in fact, government itself owns a big milling company which is selling the commodity at an even more expensive price than other private millers in some instances. We have been waiting for those...

Lusaka-based chartered accountant Victor Nyasulu says the discovery of gold deposits in some parts of the country can help get Zambia out of its current debt situation if well managed. And Nyasulu has proposed an equal shareholding in gold mines to allow greater benefits for the local people. Recent exploration works have discovered deposits of...