PRESIDENT Edgar Lungu should test for COVID-19 because he has been in contact with both Information Minister Dora Siliya and her health counterpart Dr Chitalu Chilufya, says Former Secretary to Cabinet Dr Sketchley Sacika. And Dr Sacika has challenged President Lungu to fire Dr Chilufya in order to allow the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) carry out...

PATRIOTIC Front deputy secretary general Mumbi Phiri has lamented that political lies in the media have cost her the good friendship she had with UPND leader Hakainde Hichilema. And Phiri has insisted that 2021 presidential aspirant Kelvin Fube Bwalya (KBF) does not qualify to contest the PF presidency because he is not a member of...

ALLIANCE for Democracy and Development (ADD) leader Charles Milupi says government’s decision to hire a French company to help restructure Zambia’s debt at a cost of US$5 million is a waste of resources because there are qualified citizens who can do the job for much less. In an interview, Milupi said it was important for...

THE arrest, prosecution and subsequent acquittal of Cabinet Minister Ronald Chitotela last year without him vacating office said everything that needed to be said about President Edgar Lungu's weakness on governance. While the whole country was expecting him to decisively suspend the minister to pave way for genuine investigations into corruption allegations, Mr Lungu said...

TRANSPARENCY International Zambia president Reuben Lifuka says failure by State House to explain the leaked pictures of President Edgar Lungu with Belarusian oligarch Alexander Zingman and Lusaka businessman Vaulden Findlay will fuel speculation that there is State Capture at play in Zambia. Yesterday, News Diggers published an Investigation linking President Lungu to Zingman who, according...

HOME Affairs Minister Stephen Kampyongo says the pardoned Kapiri gay couple, Stephen Sambo and Japhet Mataba, have given “a second chance to live like law abiding citizens”. And Kampyongo says President Edgar Lungu has pardoned 249 more ordinary inmates. Speaking at a briefing, Wednesday, Kampyongo said the Zambia Correctional Facility had done their work in...

AN Investigation has linked President Edgar Lungu to a Belarusian businessman and oligarch, Alexander Zingman who, according to the Business News Line publication of March 25, 2020, is associated with questionable deals between Russian dealers and African countries. Photographs have now emerged of President Lungu, Defence Permanent Secretary Sturdy Mwale, Zambia Air Force Commander Lt...

UPND spokesperson Charles Kakoma says the PF government should invite his party to discuss debt restructuring with the same spirit in which they consulted NDC president Chishimba Kambwili on the mines. In an interview, Kakoma recalled that UPND president Hakainde Hichilema had in the past offered free consultancy to government on debt restructuring, but lamented...

MY DEAR brother Edgar Lungu, when you are fixing someone politically, don’t forget that this person has got family, Chishimba Kambwili has lamented, adding that PF has reduced him to a beggar. And Kambwili who is National Democratic Congress (NDC) president says the Opposition Alliance has devised alternative means of mobilising ahead of the 2021...

THE Non-Governmental Gender Organization Coordinating Council (NGOCC) says the council seeks to encourage more women to participate in next year’s general election. Speaking when she opened a media training on the Maputo and Banjul protocol and women’s participation in politics and decision making, Wednesday, NGOCC executive director Engwase Mwale said if inequalities persisted, women would...