FORMER home affairs deputy minister Colonel Panji Kaunda says some of the painful decisions being undertaken by the UPND government would have been avoided if the PF ruled properly. In an interview, Colonel Kaunda advised Zambians to ignore the utterances made by PF, stating that the UPND should be judged at the end of their...

THE Zambia police service says 17 persons were killed in 16 fatal road traffic accidents recorded during the 2021 Christmas holiday. And the police have revealed that a total number of 152 Road Traffic Accidents were recorded throughout the country during the same period under review, a decline from the 234 road traffic accidents recorded...

MINISTRY of Health Permanent Secretary for Technical Services Dr Luckson Kasonka says Cabinet office has advised his Ministry to use alternative modalities to procure drugs in the country. On Friday, December 3, 2021, the entire Ministry of Health Procurement Department was closed and put on suspension pending investigations by a joint task force. In an...

FORMER PF secretary general Davies Mwila says PF's Raphael Nakacinda cannot retract his statement before the truth is established, in case the President indeed met the judges. PF member of the Central Committee Raphael Nakacinda recently accused President Hakainde Hichilema of summoning judges to his house, a statement which has received condemnation from various government...

MPOROKOSO PF member of parliament Brian Mundubile says the Office of the Auditor General must diligently expose malpractices, in order to ensure that going forward, it's comfortable for one to be a politician and also be rich. And Mundubile says the civil service today is full of cadres who held very serious positions in political...

THERE was confusion at Chelstone Police Station in Lusaka yesterday after suspected UPND cadres stormed the place in order to disperse some PF officials that had gathered to show solidarity to Raphael Nakacinda after he was summoned. A group of cadres arrived at the police station with sticks and stones while chanting and demanding that...

FORMER works and supply minister Sylvia Chalikosa says the PF may get sympathy votes in any of the upcoming elections owing to the continued persecution of senior party members. In an interview, Chalikosa wondered why some atrocities perpetrated by the UPND in the past were not being followed up by law enforcement agencies. “I would...

THE Ministry of Education has disclosed that the Keeping Girls in School (KGS) project funded by the World Bank recorded a 65 percent dropout rate of schoolgirls in 29 districts. And the Parliamentary Accounts Committee (PAC) has heard that there was a mismatch of beneficiaries in the database, a situation which led to the project...

THE Anti-Corruption Commission yesterday summoned Faith Musonda for questioning again after discovering more undeclared properties that are suspected to be proceeds of crime. And sources have told News Diggers that the investigative wing also quizzed Musonda after discovering that her former mansion which was forfeited to the State had been vandalized. In September this year,...

MINISTRY of Community Development and Social Services Girl’s Education and Women’s Empowerment Livelihood Financial Advisor Robert Nsamba says amounts totaling K21,677,570 remain undisbursed to intended beneficiaries and are still being held by payment service providers. According to the latest AG report, as at February 28, 2021, the Ministry had not issued instructions to six payment...