By SYLVIA MWEETWA – SEVERAL bags of maize in parts of Mkushi risks going to waste following a day of unsuspected rains experienced on Wednesday this week. Mkushi District Commissioner Luka Mwamba blamed the Zambia...

By PERPETUAL SICHIKWENKWE – THE Lusaka High Court has ordered the State to compensate 19 former petitioners K80, 000 each for each year they served in prison for opposing the one party state in the...

By MARTIN MUSUNKA – FIRST Quantum Minerals (FQM) has embarked on a deliberate social investment programme for girl children in North-Western Province aimed at motivating them to focus on formal education and stay away from...

By ALICK MVULA – SOME parts of the country yesterday experienced a three hour power outage due to a network system disturbance on the 330 kilovolts Kabwe substation. The affected areas included Copperbelt, North-Western, Northern,...

By PERPETUAL SICHIKWENKWE – THE Lusaka magistrates’ court has threatened to exclude the media from covering proceedings in a matter in which Game-Zambia Stores manager, Maduramuthoo Mare Palan is charged with indecent assault and sexual...

By CHARITY MOONGA – THE Anti-Corruption Commission, (ACC) has arrested three senior Kabwe Municipal Council officials for two counts of Abuse of Authority of Office involving K260, 000.00. ACC public relations officer Timothy Moono said...

By BRIAN HATYOKA – ZAMBIA has this year invested US$ 4 million the eradication of tsetse flies and trypanosomiasis to safeguard livestock and human beings, Agriculture and Livestock Deputy Minister Lackson Kazabu has said. Mr...

By BRIAN HATYOKA – GOVERNMENT has officially handed over 40 houses valued at K12. 9 million to Lumbo Villagers in Senior Chief Sekute’s area of Kazungula District in Southern Province who were relocated to pave...

By CHILA NAMAIKO – A HEALTH worker in Choma has committed suicide by allegedly drinking a poisonous substance. Grem Mufulira, 27, a resident of Overspill Township, who is a psycho-social counsellor at Simakutu Rural Health...

By PERPETUAL SICHIKWENKWE – THE nine people, who were arrested earlier this month for stealing maize from the Food Reserve Agency (FRA) depot in Lusaka worth more than K12,000 have admitted the charge. But the...