UPND spokesperson Charles Kakoma says Zambians will celebrate when President Edgar Lungu leaves office, adding that it is wishful thinking for the Head of State to say people will miss him. And Chirundu UPND member of parliament Douglas Syakalima says President Lungu will not even be on the ballot paper because he doesn't qualify to...

THE Centre for Trade Policy and Development (CTPD) says government needs to be more serious if its intentions are to be trusted as it engages with creditors. In a statement, Wednesday, CTPD researcher Wakumelo Mataa said there were too many contradictions in the manner in which government was handling resources. “We find it contradictory that,...

LUSAKA Magistrate Jennifer Bwalya has warned that the State will be deemed to have closed a matter in which NDC leader Chishimba Kambwili is accused of expressing racial remarks against an Indian national should the matter not proceed at the next sitting. Magistrate Bwalya also agreed with concerns by the defence that the matter has...

The Drug Enforcement Commission (DEC) has raided University of Zambia Lecturers and Researchers Union (UNZALARU) offices over suspected money laundering activities. UNZALARU general secretary Dr Kelvin Mambwe confirmed this to News Diggers in an interview, saying a member of staff had reported the union to the commission after some financial information was leaked on social...

UPND SECRETARY general Steven Katuka says the Dundumwezi voting pattern will be replicated across the opposition party’s strongholds next year because the people are convinced more than ever before that there is need for regime change. In 2016, President Edgar Lungu got only 252 votes in that area while his rival, Hakainde Hichilema, of the...

The Human Rights Commission has condemned the continued tribal remarks being uttered by some PF members. And the HRC says the PF will leave a legacy of having divided the nation using tribe. Over the weekend during a campaign in Kapiri Mposhi organised by Kabushi member of parliament and chairperson of the PF Mobilisation Committee...

LUSAKA Province PF secretary Kennedy Kamba has directed all party district chairmen to be submitting weekly reports of all the party officials that have been captured in the ongoing voter registration exercise. In his letter dated November 11, 2020, Kamba stated that he wanted the full names, voter's number, NRC number, phone number, and district...

SUSPENDED Eastern Province PF youth chairperson Emmanuel Banda, commonly known as Jay Jay, and three others have been convicted by the Lusaka High Court after they pleaded guilty to a charge of disorderly conduct in a police station. Lusaka High Court judge Wilfred Muma has equally convicted their co-accused Maxwell Pito of the charge of...

ACTING Chief Government Spokesperson Joyce Simukoko says reports that people are spending long hours on registration queues are a matter of concern especially that government has supported the Electoral Commission of Zambia to conduct the exercise efficiently. And Liuwa UPND member of parliament Situmbeko Musokotwane says strange things happening such as malfunctioning of gensets, shortage...

PRESIDENT Edgar Lungu has wondered why his 2021 eligibility has now become a problem when the Constitutional Court ruled that he has only served one term of office. And President Lungu has charged that the UPND was bent on destroying the country because they rejected Bill 10. Meanwhile, President Lungu has urged headmen and women...