Ex-Chipolopolo coaches back Grant to excel at AFCON
FORMER Chipolopolo coaches Wedson Nyirenda and Patrick Phiri say the Chipolopolo can count themselves among the surprise packages if they apply themselves well at next year’s Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON). Nyirenda and Phiri have welcomed Avram Grant’s decision to have all his players undergo rigorous physical tests before making the final AFCON training camp…....
Increase in newspaper cover prices and a plea for support
EARLIER this week, News Diggers announced an increase in the cover price from K10 to K15 for the print edition and from K7 to K10 for the ePaper edition. This development has not come as a surprise to a lot of people. It’s been long overdue and a good number of our readers actually wondered…...
WAFCON, AFCON qualification a sign of sporting growth – Nkandu
SPORTS Minister Elvis Nkandu says the country’s qualification to the WAFCON and AFCON tournaments is an indication that Zambia is experiencing growth on the sporting front. On Tuesday, the Copper Queens made its third successive WAFCON qualification after eliminating Angola with a 12-0 aggregate. The Chipolopolo will also be making a return to the continental…...
DPP appeals against Kambwili’s 5 month sentence
DIRECTOR of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Gilbert Phiri has appealed against the Kasama Magistrate Court’s decision to sentence PF member Chishimba Kambwili to five months imprisonment after finding him guilty of using hate appeal against the people of Southern Province. In his notice of appeal filed in the High Court, Phiri, who has raised two grounds…...
Chinese firm gets K7.3m fine for tax evasion
THE Economic and Financial Crimes Court has convicted Alaska Solution Limited and its director Zhang Weisheng on 36 counts of tax evasion and has fined them a sum of K7,308,000. In a statement, Thursday, Zambia Revenue Authority (ZRA) Corporate Communications Manager Oliver Nzala said the authority, in its desire to crack down on tax evasion…...
People should debate what to do with inflation information, not figures – ZamStats
THE Zambia Statistics Agency (ZamStats) says the debate on the accuracy of its inflation figures is not important, but has urged people to discuss what to do with inflation information. And ZamStats Statistician General Mulenga Musepa has revealed that the final report for the 2022 census of population results which stood at 19,610,769 is now…...
Retrieved body interred, as search mission enters day 8
COPPERBELT Minister Elisha Matambo has called on the nation to join in the fasting every day from 06:00 hours to 18:00 hours until all the trapped miners at Seseli Mine in Chingola are retrieved. The search for the trapped miners has now entered day eight. By press time yesterday, the search team had not retrieved…...
Parley rejects anti-maize dependence motion
THE National Assembly on Wednesday rejected a motion moved by Kanchibiya PF member of parliament Sunday Chanda, urging government to formulate an agriculture policy to minimise maize dependency. Moving his motion, Chanda said there was no specific agriculture policy that comprehensively sought to diversify away from maize. He said the lack of alternative and affordable…...
DPP apologises over his prosecutors’ absence in Malanji, Yamba case
DIRECTOR of Public Prosecutions Gilbert Phiri yesterday apologised to the Lusaka Magistrates’ Court over his State advocates’ absence in the Joseph Malanji and Fredson Yamba case at the last sitting. Earlier this week, Magistrate Ireen Wishimanga told Phiri to personally prosecute the matter if the State advocates were busy to handle the case. This was…...
People are looking for salvation and they see that in PF – Chilangwa
KAWAMBWA PF member of parliament Nickson Chilangwa says citizens are seeing hope and salvation in the former ruling party. And Chilangwa says President Hakainde Hichilema should cut down on his trips. Speaking to journalists after DPP Gilbert Phiri declined to grant Raphael Nakacinda consent to privately prosecute Miles Sampa and Morgan Ng’ona, at the Lusaka…...
