By SHARON KALIMBULA – HEALTH Minister Sylvia Masebo says Malaria continues to be a major public health problem for Zambia with half of the deaths recorded last year being children.She noted that last year, the...

By SYLVIA MWEETWA – POLICE in Kitwe have arrested four suspected ring leaders of a youth gang that on Friday night raided Nkana East Police Station in an attempt to break free two gang members.The...

By CHUSA SICHONE – THE Zambia Medicines and Medical Supplies Agency (ZAMMSA) says Denmark’s Missionpharma will replace the recalled batches of the antibiotic Erythromycin Stearate BP tablets that were detected to be defective in October...

By JULIUS PHIRI and CLEOPATRA MWAMBA – A SIXTY-YEAR-OLD man of Chinsali District of Muchinga Province has been arrested after he was accused of defiling an 11- year-old girl.Kenny Nganga of Masandiko village in Chief...

By HELLEN MWANDILA – RESEARCHERS at the University of Zambia’s (UNZA) School of Veterinary Medicine in conjunction with international research partners have developed a rapid diagnosis kit for the detection of the Marburg (MVD), a...

By AGRIPPA CHANDA – THE popular late 70’s Paul Ngozi hit single “akazi a Lungu” which narrates about a concerned husband who follows his run away fish trader wife to one of the fishing camps...

By JAMES KUNDA – THE NEW Dawn Government is targeting economic growth rate projection of 10 per cent next year, President Hakainde Hichilema has revealed.This will enable the country achieve the Vision-2030, prosperous middle income...

By SYLVIA MWEETWA – THE Government has paid retirement benefits to more than 6,000 teachers in Kitwe alone, District Education Board Secretary Christopher Nyungila has disclosed.This follows the release of K19 million as retirement benefits...

JAPAN has pledged an investment of US$1.5 billion to support investment by that country’s companies in boosting Zambia’s mining sector.Japan’s Economy, Trade and Industry Minister Saito Ken said during a bilateral meeting with Mines and...

By KELVIN MUDENDA – ENGINEERS have been tipped to use their expertise to reshape the economy in light of the rapid infrastructure development and increased utilisation of the Constituency Development Fund (CDF) taking place countrywide.President...