Some UNZA students ‘waste’ their fees at Chicago’s – Registrar
UNIVERSITY of Zambia Registrar Dr Lubinda Haabazoka says some students waste their fees on other activities thinking they will be allowed to write exams without paying, but things are different. Speaking when he featured on Smart Eagles’ Round Table Talk, Thursday, Dr Haabazoka said genuinely poor students were currently writing their exams because they were…...
Proposed date for commencement of KCM arbitration is in Nov 2021 – Musukwa
MINES and Minerals Development Minister Richard Musukwa says at the moment, the proposed date for the arbitration process between ZCCM-IH and Vedanta to begin is in November 2021. But Musukwa says ZCCM-IH has intentions to appeal the court’s decision. Rendering a ministerial statement to Parliament, Thursday, Musukwa said the parties were looking to find an…...
Kalingalinga man in court for assaulting priest
A 62-YEAR-OLD man of Kalingalinga Township who allegedly assaulted an Anglican Priest whilst he was preaching at the pulpit, has been dragged to the Lusaka Magistrates’ Court. Renard Mwale, a machine operator, has been charged with one count of assault occasioning actually bodily harm. Particulars of the offence allege that on November 22, this year,…...
Theft of drugs by cops a sign of the leadership’s failure to stop graft – CCZ
COUNCIL of Churches in Zambia (CCZ) secretary general Father Emmanuel Chikoya says Zambia is reaping the consequences of not having a firm and decisive leadership to deal with corruption. Fr Chikoya was commenting on a Diggers investigation which revealed that several high ranking police officers had been detained for conniving to steal drugs from Medical…...
Lungu called Zambians utupuba, it’s not strange others are also insulting him – Sichinga
PRESIDENT Edgar Lungu has brought insults on himself from citizens owing to his own use of inappropriate and unpalatable language during his reign, says former commerce minister Bob Sichinga. Commenting on a recent incident where a Kitwe man was charged with defamation of the President after he allegedly insulted the Head of State, Sichinga blamed…...
ECZ has proved its incapable of running 2021 election – Akafumba
NATIONAL Democratic Congress (NDC) vice-president Joseph Akafumba says the Electoral Commission of Zambia (ECZ) has demonstrated that they are incapable of handling next year’s general election from the way they are conducting the registration of voters exercise. And Akafumba has urged the Commission to extend the registration of voters exercise in response to the rising…...
News Diggers! ePaper Edition 828 Friday November 27, 2020
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Inflation spikes to 17.4%
THE annual rate of inflation has increased to 17.4 per cent in November, up from 16 per cent recorded in October, mainly induced by huge price increases in food and non-food items, the highest on record since September, 2016, according to the Zambia Statistics Agency (ZSA). Announcing Zambia’s annual rate of inflation for the month…...
Police trace stolen drugs to private clinic in Chazanga, more cops nabbed
POLICE in Lusaka have traced the drugs that were allegedly stolen from Medical Stores Limited in Lusaka last week, to a private clinic in Chazanga. According to sources at the Zambia Medical Regulatory Authority (ZAMRA), a clinic in Lusaka’s Chazanga compound called Athaliah Health Care has been stocking medicines allegedly pilfered from Medical Stores Limited. …...
Zambia Police Motto: Don’t steal, we’ve already stolen
IN THE latest episode of the PF government’s theft series, we have learnt that the uniformed men and women who are sworn to prevent crimes are the chief perpetrators of the vice. We have learnt that instead of arresting criminals, our high ranking law enforcement officers are colluding to stage daylight robbery of medicines. Interestingly,…...