By CLAVER MUTINTA – in Kalumbila A CRITICAL water shortage has hit Lumwana General Hospital after borehole pump motors were damaged by lightning last week, forcing management to concentrate on emergency cases only, hospital sources...

By DELPHINE ZULU – THE four petitioners in the Presidential eligibility case have filed an application in the Constitutional Court asking it to increase the number of Judges from the current five to seven (full...

By REBECCA MUSHOTA – THE Zambia Police Service has directed police officers to extend their daily patrols to areas where water tanks have been installed in Lusaka after receiving reports that the tanks were under...

By MILDRED KATONGO – PRESIDENT Edgar Lungu has directed the Ministry of Finance to release K1.5 million towards the construction of the market shelter in Ndola’s Chifubu Township. Chifubu Member of Parliament Frank Ng’ambi, who...

By MILDRED KATONGO – THE Government has warned council management officials not to disregard any instructions given to them by the ministry of Local Government and Housing or risk facing disciplinary actions. Ministry of Local...

A-TWENTY-TWO-YEAR-OLD man has died while another is nursing serious injuries in Nyimba District of Eastern Province after the two fell off a 35 meter radio transmitting tower. Faston Kalunga was pronounced dead upon arrival at...

By KEVIN MUDENDA – THE Secondary School Teachers Union of Zambia (SESTUZ) has expressed mixed feelings over the pronouncements made by the Teaching Service Commission of Zambia to introduce breathalysers in schools. SESTUZ general secretary...

By KENNEDY MUPESENI – KONKOLA Copper  Mines (KCM) board chairperson Tom Albanese has said  the company will continue to produce copper in a competitive and safe way because its stakeholders rely on the mine to...

By RABECCA CHIPANTA – THE Patriotic Front (PF) leadership on the Copperbelt has backed President Edgar Lungu’s directive to the police to arrest unruly cadres in the habit of intimidating civil servants. PF provincial chairperson...

IT is sad to learn that water tanks installed in the choler-affected townships in Lusaka are being vandalised. The development, which has been confirmed by the police, is certainly a drawback to the efforts by...