By ESTHER NG’ANDU – A KITWE magistrates’ court has handed out what are known to be first sentences in gang-related crimes that have rocked the city in recent times, sending two members of the notorious...

By JAMES KUNDA – HE did not get the cremation he so passionately championed, but Lusaka’s late mayor Wilson Kalumba was sent off in a blaze of tributes during a ceremonial funeral attended by thousands...

By KASONDE KASONDE – A WOMAN in Lusaka has sustained wounds on her face and is admitted to hospital after her husband hit her with a brazier. This was after the husband also hit her...

By STEVEN ZANDE and HELLEN TEMBO – HEALTH Minister Chitalu Chilufya has directed the Permanent Secretary Kennedy Malama to suspend contents of a circular which was issued earlier this week banning private practice among public...

BY STEPHANIE KUNDA – POLICE in Ndola have picked up a decomposed body of a woman suspected to have been murdered in Ndeke township. Copperbelt police Commissioner Charity Katanga identified the deceased as Anastasia Banda,...

By JAMES KUNDA – THE Road Transport and Safety Agency (RTSA) has with immediate effect partially lifted the suspension on the road service licence for Juldan Motors bus services. The transporter’s license was suspended last...

By PERPETUAL SICHIKWENKWE – FORMER Second Republican President, Fredrick Chiluba’s son, Fredrick Mwape Junior has been convicted and jailed for eight months with hard labour for stealing a mobile phone which he traded for drugs...

By STEVEN ZANDE and CHUSA SICHONE – ABOUT 78 per cent of invited stakeholders attended the two-day National Democracy Stakeholders Summit (NDSS), Zambia Centre for Inter-Party Dialogue (ZCID) has said. ZCID board chairperson Nathan Mulonga...

By Jajah Coulibaly – MUSICAL SATIRIST Chama Fumba popularly known as ‘PILATO’ was yesterday arrested at Kenneth Kaunda International Airport upon arrival from South Africa. It is alleged that Pilato went into self-imposed exile after...

By Charles Muyanwa – FAST becoming the number one focus for development and economic growth opportunities, Africa is still stuck in the maze of being a commodity producer with little efforts, if any, in value...