KONKOLA Copper Mines Plc ceased to be a member of the Zambia Chamber of Mines because the mining company stopped paying the required subscription fees, says Chamber president Goodwell Mateyo. And Mateyo has expressed confidence that the rise in copper prices could spur investment in the Zambian mining industry. When asked whether the creation of...

UPND secretary general Stephen Katuka says 2021 will be a year the opposition party will finally form government and help redeem Zambia from the PF’s legacy of violence and economic stagnation. And Katuka says the ruling PF will be responsible for kicking themselves out of power because they have taken Zambians for fools. In an...

ENERGY Regulation Board (ERB) director general Langiwe Lungu says progress on the Cost of Service Study has stalled due to COVID-19, with the appointed consultant having completed only three tasks out of the required 12. Speaking during a press briefing in Lusaka, Wednesday, Lungu revealed that the much-anticipated Cost of Service Study, which was still...

IN memory of senior public prosecutor Nsama Nsama, who was shot dead last Wednesday alongside UPND’s Joseph Kaunda, staff at National Prosecutions Authority (NPA) gathered at their offices yesterday while clad in black to commemorate a one-week anniversary of their colleague’s demise. The staff could be heard singing solemn gospel songs as they waited to...

NATIONAL Democratic Congress (NDC) leader says newly appointed deputy Inspector General of Police in charge of operations Charity Katanga is not normal. At a media briefing, Wednesday, Kambwili charged that by appointing Katanga and Richard Mweene as deputy inspector generals in charge of operations and administration respectively, President Edgar Lungu would set the country ablaze....

KAPOCHE PF member of parliament Dr Charles Banda says the ruling party will only hand over the Republican Presidency in 2026 to an individual from a different ethnic group outside Eastern Province after President Edgar Lungu finishes another five-year mandate. Speaking to party members and the electorate in Nyanje area of Sinda District, Tuesday, Dr...

A 32-YEAR-OLD man of Kapoto compound in Kitwe has been sentenced to one year imprisonment with hard labour for stealing a car battery. Albert Mwansa, a bus conductor of Riverside station, has been sent to Kamfinsa prisons after he stole from his boss Joseph Mutale. Mwansa was charged with theft contrary to the laws of...

VICE-PRESIDENT Inonge Wina says citizens should not allow elections to divide them as the 2021 general elections approach. Speaking during the commemoration of the declaration that Zambia is a Christian nation, Tuesday, Vice-President Wina said Zambia had enjoyed peace since independence and everyone should embrace it. She said the Church should continue being a beacon...

SOME residents of Mwansabombwe district have told police that a seven-year-old boy was found hanging from a guava tree on Tuesday. Luapula Province police commissioner Chilije Nyirenda confirmed this to News Diggers in an interview, but ruled out suicide saying preliminary forensic investigations found no marks on his body to suggest that he had died...