BICON Zambia Limited, the consultants responsible for the supervision of the structural engineering works at Society Business Park in Lusaka, say the column strengthening works on the office block are expected to be completed in December, 2020. In a statement, Wednesday, following widespread concerns on the safety of the structure located in Lusaka's Central Business...

ECONOMIST Professor Oliver Saasa says despite the Ministry of Finance being the only one allowed to contract sovereign debt, several ministries, with authority from a higher office, have also been contracting debt, which sometimes creates the impression that Finance Minister Dr Bwalya Ng'andu is misleading the country and international community. In an interview, Prof Saasa,...

NATIONAL Aids Council (NAC) director policy and programmes Dr John Mwale says government should consider revising the consent age for access to sexual reproductive health because adolescents under the age of 16 are still shunning the services due to parental consent required. In an interview, Dr Mwale said that children under 15, who were the...

SLAIN Monica Chabwera's family says murder convict Beatrice Hangwende's release has come as an utter shock to them because their hearts are still bleeding. On Tuesday, the Zambia Correctional Service (ZCS) said Hangwende, who is also a Lusaka business woman, had been released from prison because she exhibited "good behaviour". A News Diggers investigation revealed...

PETROLEUM Transporters' Association of Zambia (PTAZ) secretary general Benson Tembo says the recent strike by truck drivers was instigated solely because of misinformation relayed from the unions to the drivers. Tembo says his association, whilst working with government, had endeavored to address all conditions of service for the drivers, but that unions failed to relay...

TWO Lusaka siblings, Chansa and Kelly Kapijimpanga, have taken fresh plea in the Lusaka Magistrates' Court and denied the charge of theft by director in a case in which they are accused of stealing over K52,000 belonging to a company. The two took fresh plea after the prosecution substituted the initial charge sheet with another...

POLICE spokesperson Esther Mwaata Katongo says NDC leader Chishimba Kambwili’s wife Carol has been released but his daughter, Chanda, is still in custody, charged with assault. And Carol has wondered why PF isn't using the ballot to fight political battles instead of intimidating people with state machinery. Meanwhile, Carol has lamented that her daughter has...

ZAMBIA Chamber of Mines president Goodwell Mateyo says local mining firms should take advantage of the COVID-19 pandemic to supply more copper on the international market, while other suppliers are still contending with the situation. Mateyo observed that there was currently a sharp demand for copper on the international market as other suppliers in COVID-19-hit...

KENYAN Professor of Law Patrick Lumumba says he will not respond to unfounded rumors that he and other foreigners are mobilizing funds to help the opposition unseat President Edgar Lungu because it's a sign that the Zambian government is weak and paranoid. Last week, Home Affairs Minister Stephen Kampyongo said government was aware that some...