The Zambia National Farmers Union of Zambia (ZNFU) has backed the decision by Zesco to start importing power from South Africa. In a statement, ZNFU president Jervis Zimba stated that the union was ready to support an upward tariff adjustment for the imported power as long as this was done in a transparent manner. "The...

Capital Buses operations manager Arnold Zulu and a 21-year-old man of Kanyama Site and Service have appeared in the Lusaka Magistrates’ Court for sodomy. In this matter, Zulu, 38, of Lusaka’s Millennium Bus Station and Adrian Mazuba, have been charged with one count of indecent practices between males when they were alleged found having sexual...

Allegations of drug trafficking involving President Edgar Lungu’s close ally Valden Findlay have shaken State House, forcing the release of a coded press statement stating that investigative wings would probe the matter. The American government, through its Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA), extradited renowned African “drug lord” of Indian origin Vijaygiri Vicky Goswami along with the...

A 26-year-old man has admitted before the Ndola Magistrates’ Court in his defence, that he forced his two-year-old step son to suck his manhood only once. This is in a matter in which Philemon Bwalya is charged with unnatural offences. Particulars of the offence allege that on July 13, this year, the victim’s mother left...

UPND spokesperson Charles Kakoma says Zambians will be digging their own graves if they vote for the PF in 2021. In an interview, Kakoma said the country was worse off today than it was when the PF assumed power. “Zambians have opened up and are still speaking, and they are saying that President Edgar Lungu...

Nevers Mumba was trying to take MMD as a church where only a pastor can be listened to and when he says “hallelujah”, everyone says “amen”, Eastern Province MMD chairperson Jacob Mwanza said before the Lusaka High Court on Monday. And Mwanza has claimed that drama in MMD started when Mumba was left out as...

Vedanta Resources Holdings Limited has asked the Lusaka High Court to dismiss, with costs, the application by ZCCM Investments Holdings in which it is seeking leave to appeal the court’s decision to stay the winding-up proceedings against Konkola Copper Mine (KCM). On August 27, this year, High Court judge Annesie Banda-Bobo stayed the winding-up proceedings...

A 21-year-old man of Garden Township in Lusaka has been dragged to court for allegedly stealing two pairs of shoes from Jet Stores worth K400. In this matter, Misheck Phiri, unemployed, is charged with one count of theft contrary to Section 272 of the Penal Code Chapter 87 of the Laws of Zambia. Particulars of...

PF Parliamentary Chief Whip Tutwa Ngulube says there is no need for government to declare a hunger crisis in Zambia because President Edgar Lungu is in control and doing everything to safeguard citizens. And Ngulube says government should consider engaging the defence forces in the cultivation of maize through the creation of “State farms” in...

Zesco Limited spokesperson Henry Kapata says extended load shedding hours currently being experienced around the country are due to generation constraints. And Kapata has said the power utility is losing huge amounts of money from load shedding. In an interview with News Diggers! Monday, Kapata explained that it was difficult for the utility to stick...