GREEN Party leader Peter Sinkamba has welcomed the move by the United Nations to decriminalise cannabis and cannabis resin by removing it from Schedule IV of the 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs. In a statement, Sinkamba said this would encourage the country to re-evaluate the drugs classification and pave way for more investments and...

The Court of Appeal has reversed the decision of the Lusaka High Court in which it refused to refer the Konkola Copper Mines dispute between Vedanta Resources and ZCCM-IH to arbitration. In this case, the Zambian government, through ZCCM-IH took over KCM and initiated the processes of liquidation, a move that vedanta contested in the...

WILLIAM Nelson Cromwell Professor of International and Comparative Law Muna Ndulo says it seems that in Zambia today, the police have taken over the constitutional responsibilities of the Director of Public Prosecutions, a situation which has led to many people being unfairly charged with serious non bailable offences. In an article titled “The moral arc...

THE Judicial Complaints Commission (JCC) has recommended the removal of controversial Lusaka Magistrate David Simusamba from presiding as a judicial officer. There have been various complaints against the conduct of Magistrate Simusamba, the latest being a case where Chishimba Kambwili reported him to the Anti Corruption Commission before asking the Chief Justice to compel him...

The Financial Intelligence Centre (FIC) has reported a sharp decline in the overall number of suspicious financial transaction reports, but with a record high loss of money from laundering activities. And the centre has reported that the major drivers for generation of proceeds of crime in Zambia is corruption associated with public procurement. Meanwhile the...

THE new wave of smear campaign against opposition UPND president Hakainde Hichilema emanates from the Patriotic Front’s realisation that the use of the tribal card against him is no longer effective, University of Zambia lecturer Dr Sishuwa Sishuwa has explained. FDD leader Edith Nawakwi, who has mostly stayed away from political discourse since appearing with...

LUSAKA Businessman Valden Findlay has offered Chrismar Hotel for sale to the National Pension Scheme Authority NAPSA, expecting a purchase price as high as US$18 million, when the deal is approved. NAPSA confirmed to News Diggers that it received an offer for the sale of the property which is located at Plot number 6892 Los...

If you become rich by virtue of being a politician, then you are thief, says constitutional lawyer John Sangwa. And Sangwa says Dr Kenneth Kaunda is living a humble and peaceful life because he did not steal when he was in government. Reacting to remarks attributed to Lusaka Province Minister Bowman Lusambo who was defending...

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...