The Energy Regulation Board (ERB) should shelve Zesco’s proposal to hike electricity tariffs because there is risk that Zambian consumers will end up subsidizing the utility’s operational deficiencies. In a statement, Wednesday, CTPD executive director

University of Zambia (UNZA) political science lecturer Lee Habasonda has appealed to President Edgar Lungu not to assent to the National Dialogue Bill until it gains majority support from citizens. And Habasonda has appealed to

Speaker of the National Assembly Patrick Matibini has dismissed Choma UPND member of parliament Cornelius Mweetwa’s complaint where he alleged that Housing and Infrastructure Development Minister Ronald Chitotela issued death threats to him. On Wednesday,

Police in Kitwe have arrested six Copperbelt University students for riotous behavior. And a fourth year economics student jumped from the fourth floor of his hostel and broke his leg in an attempt to escape

Unknown criminals have killed a Chingola taxi driver and stolen his vehicle. Copperbelt Police Commissioner Charity Katanga confirmed this to News Diggers, saying it happened on April 1. Katanga has identified the deceased as Joseph

The contentious National Dialogue Bill passed third reading Tuesday evening as the parliamentary session stretched into an overnight session to allow lawmakers exhaust their heated debates on the proposed legislation. Members of parliament stayed up

President Edgar Lungu says if the UPND wants, they can raise the winning threshold to 60 per cent plus one in 2021, and Zambians will still vote for him overwhelmingly. And President Lungu says he

UPND deputy secretary General Patrick Mucheleka says the opposition party is not discouraged by the loss of Kafue chairmanship, but will forge ahead despite the PF’s “underhand methods” of winning elections. And Mucheleka says the

Patriotic Front Secretary General Davies Mwila says PF will win the Roan and Bahati seats the same way it emerged victorious in Kafue, without any violence or importation of cadres. And Mwila says UPND has

Economist Chibamba Kanyama says Zambia is not doing enough in terms of reducing arrears and debt will keep on rising until government starts clearing the principle amounts in 2022. In an interview, Kanyama said Zambia’s