By CHILA NAMAIKO – A KALOMO businessexecutive has been jailed by the Choma magistrate’s court to three-years with hard labour for having K1, 000 in fake K100 notes. Resident magistrate Willie Sinyangwe sentenced Mike Chiyavula,...

By CHILA NAMAIKO – A NINE-month-old baby of Kalundu Township in Monze District has allegedly been defiled by an unknown person. The defiler allegedly took advantage of the absence of the mother to defile the...

By REBECCA MUSHOTA – THE United States Senate has confirmed the nomination of Eric Schultz as new Ambassador to Zambia. According to a statement released by the US Embassy in Zambia yesterday, the confirmation of...

    By REBECCA MUSHOTA – DEPUTY Minister of Health Chitalu Chilufya has implored community health assistants to raise levels of awareness of Ebola in neighbourhoods so that the disease is prevented. Dr Chilufya said...

By NAKUBIANA SHABONGO – Anti-apartheid icon Desmond Tutu is impressed with the remarkable coalition amongst stakeholders in fighting child marriages in Zambia. Archbishop Tutu was pleased with the intensity that Zambia was tackling the scourge...

By CHILA NAMAIKO? – THE Government has called on expectant mothers to always deliver from?health centres to reduce the maternal mortality rate in the country.?Choma District administrative officer (DAO) Vincent Sikanyela said?Government’s desire was to...

By YVONNE CHATE? – THE Electoral Commission of Zambia (ECZ) has started the delimitation ?exercise aimed at increasing the number of constituencies, polling?districts and stations. ECZ chairperson Ireen Mambilima said the introduction of new polling?stations...

By NORMA SIAME?  – A MAN of Mungwi District in Northern Province that bragged of being strong as he bludgeoned his brother-in-law to death with an axe handle has been sentenced to five years imprisonment...

TEENAGE pregnancies have become a public health issue because of the long-term negative effects they have on the future of affected girls, including morbidity. Statistics for 2013 showing that 12,500 pregnancies were recorded at primary...

By CHARITY MOONGA – MINES, Energy and Water Development Minister Christopher Yaluma has said the Government is working on legislation to enhance value-addition to Zambia’s mineral resources to create employment opportunities for Zambians. Mr Yaluma...