A NEWS Diggers! investigation has revealed that the Rwandese national called Nsengiyumva Appolinaire, who was named by that country's rebel leader Maj Nsabimana Sankara Calliixte in a court testimony as his link to President Edgar Lungu, is actually a member of the Industrial Development Corporation (IDC) procurement committee in Zambia. And Appolinaire has told News...

NDC leader Chishimba Kambwili says the opposition must unite and field one 2021 presidential candidate in order to kick out the Patriotic Front. And Kambwili says the just ended Malawi presidential elections must be a lesson to Zambia and all other African countries that there is power in the vote. Speaking when he was called...

WILLIAM Nelson Cromwell Professor of International and Comparative Law Muna Ndulo has wondered what Speaker of the National Assembly Patrick Matibini has been eating for him to become so arrogant. In an article titled "On What Meat Doth Matibini Feed?: MATIBINI AND THE COURTS", Thursday, Prof Ndulo said the Speaker's claim that he had powers...

The Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) has recorded a warn and caution statement from Minister of Health Dr Chitalu Chilufya for allegedly possessing property suspected to be proceeds of crime. And ACC sources have explained to News Diggers the number of properties that Dr Chilufya is accused of fraudulently possessing. In a statement, ACC corporate affairs...

POLICE on Wednesday officially arrested and charged fellow officers and some PF officials, including the ruling party’s North Western Province chairperson Jackson Kungo, in connection with the theft of gold in Mwinilunga valued at over K24.7 million. According to police sources in Mwinilunga, the five police officers and nine PF officials are expected to appear...

AN INVESTIGATION by the Ministry of Home Affairs has revealed how Lusaka Lawyer Lewis Mosho’s law firm hired three police officers to illegally arrest and deport nine Chinese working for Kingphar Company Zambia Limited. Sources at the Ministry have told News Diggers that the officers lied that they were executing a High Court order, when...

THE University of Zambia is developing a Staff Discipline and Procedure Code which will make “unauthorised communication of confidential university information” a dismissible offence. And UNZA also wishes to make it a dismissible offence for lecturers and other staff members to use social media to post libellous materials "likely to bring the University into disrepute"...

THE Resident Doctors Association of Zambia (RDAZ) has directed all its branches to hold an urgent branch meeting today, following the growing number of health personnel getting infected with COVID-19 and the escalating levels of anxiety among its membership. But Health Minister Dr Chitalu Chilufya says this is not time to arm twist government, or...

INFORMATION Minister Dora Siliya has thrown our Prime TV’s appeal against the Independent Broadcasting Authority (IBA)‘s decision to cancel it’s license, saying the license had already expired. In a letter dated April 23, Siliya said she couldn’t entertain the appeal because there was no existing license at the time IBA made the decision. “It is...

TRANSPARENCY International Zambia (TIZ) says the University of Zambia (UNZA) should not trivialize audits like the one conducted by the Auditor General if the institution is to be brought back in the league of eminent, leading African universities. And TIZ says UNZA management needs to improve its adherence to financial regulations. Meanwhile, TIZ says the...