By YVONNE CHATE – A THIRTY-SIX-YEAR-old man has been sentenced to five years imprisonment with hard labour by a Ndola magistrate’s court for stealing a truck his employer gave him to drive. Frank Sakala, a...

By CHILA NAMAIKO – MORE than 1,500 males aged between 15 and 49 years last month underwent the Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision (VMMC) exercise in Choma. The exercise was carried out during the VMMC month...

BY SYLVIA MWEETWA – POLICE in Kapiri Mposhi District of Central Province has arrested a 39-year-old man  who on several occasions is alleged to have defiled his two nieces aged four and  five. In another related development, three  people including a minor are battling...

By YVONNE CHATE – A NDOLA magistrate’s court has found a 22-year-old man guilty of defiling a six-year-old girl. Magistrate Misozi Banda convicted John Chikuta, a farmer of unknown address, of defiling a six-year-old girl...

By REBECCA MUSHOTA – A FOURTEEN-YEAR-OLD boy of Twapia Township has been sodomised, allegedly by three boys from the same township. The boy, who was sent by his father on Sunday around 21:00 hours to...

SENIOR Chief Kanongesha of the Lunda-speaking people in Mwinilunga District has called for the immediate prosecution of two contractors who allegedly abandoned construction works. Senior Chief Kanongesha said one contractor was engaged by Government to...

By REBECCA MUSHOTA – A FATHER of Mabumba Primary teachers’ complex in Mansa has burnt his nine-year-old daughter’s fingers in boiling water after she ate food that was meant for supper. Mr Mulenga said Frank...

By PERPETUAL SICHIKWENKWE – THE Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA) Zambia has challenged the alleged decision of the National Assembly to bar its members from covering the opening of the Fourth Session of the...

By PERPETUAL SICHIKWENKWE – THE DRUG Enforcement Commission (DEC) has arrested 42 people in the infamous Chibolya Township in Lusaka for trafficking in various quantities of cannabis. DEC and other investigations wings have for the...

By MOFFAT CHAZINGWA – THE 25-year-old Kitwe woman who was quarantined for suspected Ebola has been discharged from the isolation centre at Garnetone Clinic. The woman, who was quarantined last Monday when she presented with...