By DELPHINE ZULU – FORMER Zambia Wildlife Authority (ZAWA) Director General, Xenophon Vlahakis is dead. Mr Vlahakis died on Thursday at the University Teaching Hospital (UTH) where he was admitted. ZAWA public relations officer Readith...

By NAKUBIANA SHABONGO – THE Zambia Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) has proposed that Government should lift the wage freeze imposed on public service workers. Making recommendations for the 2015 National Budget, ZCTU Secretary General,...

By ANDREW PHIRI – ABOUT 60 former street vendors in Livingstone have been given plots at Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) market to build their shops. Regional United Street Vendors’ Association chairperson...

By DELPHINE ZULU – GOVERNMENT and the United Nations (UN) Refugee Agency will conduct a verification and registration exercise of self-settled former Angolan refugees who are still living in urban and rural areas of Zambia....

By PERPETUAL SICHIKWENKWE – THE State has urged the Lusaka High Court to uphold former deputy sports minister Steven Masumba’s conviction and sentence by the magistrate court. The National Prosecution Authority stated that the Lusaka...

By HELEN ZULU – WORKERS Compensation Fund has grown its portfolio from K200 million to K700 million over the last five years. Organisation Manager corporate affairs and customer services Maybin Nkholomba said the organisation had...

By MAIMBOLWA MULIKELELA – THE Lusaka City Council (LCC) will spend about K10 million to construct three new fire stations in Chelstone, Makeni and Chilenje. Meanwhile, the council has partnered with ZANACO to carry-out a...

By BRIAN HATYOKA and ANDREW PHIRI – SOUTHERN Province Minister Daniel Munkombwe has advised residents of Western and Southern provinces to take advantage of the rehabilitated Mulobezi Railway line to promote trade and other businesses....

By REBECCA MUSHOTA – WITH the decentralisation of operations of the Tanzania-Zambia Railway Authority (TAZARA) set for today, unionised workers on the Zambian side have vowed to remain on strike until their five months salary...

By PERPETUAL SICHIKWENKWE – THE Lusaka Magistrate court has set October 31, 2014 as date for judgment in a matter in which former mines minster Maxwell Mwale is charged with abuse of authority and receiving...