AN accountant at MTN Zambia has discontinued two cases where he was seeking K800,000 compensation for torture and false imprisonment as well as leave to issue a writ of habeas corpus ad subjiciendum, directing the officer in Charge at Chelstone Police Station to present him before court. This is according to two separate notices of...

INTEREST rates on loan facilities could still rise despite the Bank of Zambia’s (BoZ) decision to maintain the Monetary Policy Rate (MPR) at 11.5 per cent due to the elevated cost of funds, says Bankers’ Association of Zambia (BAZ) chief executive officer Leonard Mwanza. And Mwanza has announced that the Non-Performing Loan (NPL) ratio ended...

THE Copperbelt University Academics Union (CBUAU) has given government up to this Friday to settle February salaries along with January arrears owed to higher learning institutions, failure to which appropriate action will be taken, according to the law. Higher Education Minister Dr Brian Mushimba notified all universities, TEVET Colleges and other Science Statutory Boards, Monday,...

UPND president Hakainde Hichilema says Home Affairs Minister Stephen Kampyongo is trying to implicate him in the gassing in order to prevent him from participating in the 2021 general elections. And Hichilema says he cannot be involved in the gassing of people because he has not live for State House, but has love for Zambians....

UPND spokesperson Charles Kakoma says President Edgar Lungu should not just pray, but take action to ensure that the perpetrators of gassing are brought to book. In an interview, Kakoma said while President Lungu’s prayers for the country were welcome, he ought to take concrete action to weed out the criminals behind the ongoing gassing...

The memorandum of understanding between the Zambia Meteorological Department and GBMS Engineering Limited did not go through the required procedure, a State witness has testified before the Lusaka Magistrates' Court. This is a matter in which former ZMD director Jacob Nkomoki; his deputy Joseph Kanyanga; Mukufute Mukelebai and Overseas Mwangase, all senior officers at ZMD,...

THE Drug Enforcement Commission (DEC) has seized the newly imported Bugatti Veyron after a social media buzz around the cost of the top market sports car. DEC Public Relations Officer Theresa Katongo confirmed to News Diggers that the Commission had taken possession of the car, barely a day after its arrival, in order to investigate...

University of Zambia and Copperbelt University (CBU) Vice-Chancellors Professors Luke Mumba and his CBU counterpart Naison Ngoma, respectively, must resign for failure to properly manage the higher learning institutions, says the National Action for Quality Education in Zambia (NAQUEZ). In a statement, NAQUEZ executive director Aaron Chansa lamented that the two universities were grossly being...

MAAMBA Collieries Limited has admitted that ZCCM Investment Holdings Plc advanced it US$10 million as a loan to enable it meet its obligations to settle its creditors. It, however, added that this was at the request and instance of the Industrial Development Corporation Limited (IDC), which was tasked by the Ministry of Finance and National...

NATSAVE Bank has partnered with Airtel Mobile Commerce Zambia Limited to launch its Wallet-to-Bank and Bank-to-Wallet services, which allows customers of both institutions to instantly send money directly from either account to the other and vice-versa. In a statement availed by Airtel’s head of corporate communications Yuyo Nachali-Kambikambi, Monday, Airtel announced its partnership with Natsave...