ADD president Charles Milupi says, President Edgar Lungu is forcing Zambians to have a “Lungu driven” constitution against their will. And Milupi says the Constitution Amendment Bill number 10 of 2019 was the most selfish attempt to refine the constitution Zambia had ever seen. Milupi was reacting to President Lungu’s remarks in his address to...

The Law Association of Zambia (LAZ) has asked the Constitutional Court to dismiss a matter in which three politicians and two individuals have sued the association over its decision to drag President Edgar Lungu and the National Assembly to court for attempting to alter the Constitution of Zambia through Bill 10. LAZ has argued that...

Mines Minister Richard Musukwa has said screening conducted on mine workers between 2017 and 2018 has shown an increase in lung diseases. Delivering a keynote address at the first Pan-African Occupational Health and Safety Conference in Johannesburg, South Africa, themed “Occupational Safety and Health in Africa: Challenges and Actions”, Nkhuwa said over 5,000 mine workers...

A village headman in Sinda District has complained that pregnant women in the area are being overburdened with numerous items to purchase on their own, while government is failing to provide basic healthcare services. In an interview, headman Kaondo Stephen Banda in Kapoche constituency said it hurt the communities to see that pregnant women were...

Minister of Energy Mathew Nkhuwa has said the expected electricity tariff hike will not spare anyone as mining companies and other industries are equally expected to “pay their bit” or shut down. But Chamber of Mines president Goodwell Mateyo has urged the government to first consider concluding their promised Cost of Service study before any...

AVAP, in partnership with the Germany Technical Cooperation, has initiated a project meant to encourage citizens to demand for quality service delivery in relation to revenue collected by local authorities in markets and bus stations. AVAP executive director Richwell Mulwani told News Diggers! in an interview that the Local Participation in Governance (LoPaGo) project was...

Minister in the Office of the Vice-President Olipa Phiri says the hunger situation in some parts of the country is a disaster because it falls under the Disaster Management and Mitigation Unit. Responding to a question from Mitete UPND member of parliament Misheck Mutelo, who wanted to find out if the hunger situation in the...

The Higher Education Loans and Scholarships Board (HELSB) has commenced recovery of loans from beneficiaries employed in the private sector, collecting over K1.4 million by the end of August, 2019. And the Board has traced over 11,876 loan beneficiaries employed by various institutions through the National Pensions Scheme Authority (NAPSA) system. In a statement, Thursday,...

Renowned Lusaka lawyer Kelvin Fube Bwalya (KBF) has urged President Edgar Lungu to distance himself from businessman Valden Findlay because their friendship risks destabilizing the Republican Presidency. In a statement stressing the need to respect and defend the Presidency, KBF insisted that Findlay's friendship with the Head of State had seriously compromised the Presidency in...

Shortly after vehemently denying that he knows African drug kingpin Vicky Goswami and publicly distancing himself from any links to the international drug trafficking cartel, Lusaka businessman Valden Findlay has been confronted by first Republican president Dr Kenneth Kaunda’s son Kaweche who says he is ready to testify to the effect that the two know...