By ANDREW PHIRI – GOVERNMENT will soon engage World Boxing Council (WBC) Women’s silver champion, Catherine Phiri to explain to her the outcome of a fundraising drive initiated last year by the Sports Ministry. The...

  By CHATUL A KAMPO – GOVERNMENT has urged health institutions to work hard and research extensively to attain desired results that will attract funding.   Ministry of Health Permanent Secretary David Chikamata said health...

By NAKUBIANA SHABONGO – THE Non-Governmental Organisations Coordinating Council (NGOCC) has signed 37 projects amounting to K5, 725,553.55 million to enhance promotion of gender equality and equity. This will be done through social, economic, political...

By CHARITY MOONGA – THE labour movement has backed Government calls for employers to stick to the minimum wage as stipulated by the law. Zambia Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) president Leonard Hikaumba said in...

By ETAMBUYU SANG’ANDU – COPPERBELT Minister Mwenya Musenge has appealed to Zesco to consider exempting health institutions from its prepaid meters installation project. Mr Mwenya Musenge said in as much as Zesco was supplying power...

By CLEVER ZULU – THE Road Transport and Safety Agency (RTSA) in conjunction with the Lusaka City Council Fast Track Court has convicted a total of 404 people for various traffic offences during the months...

By MIRIAM ZIMBA – GOVERNMENT is conducting a national tuberculosis (TB) prevalence survey to adduce evidence that will ensure effective TB programming in the country, deputy Minister of Health Chitalu Chilufya has said. Speaking in...

By PERPETUAL SICHIKWENKWE – A SIXTY-ONE-year-old peasant farmer in Kasama, Northern Province has appeared in the Lusaka Magistrate Court for attempting to steal K350,985 from the State. Stanslous Chomba attempted to obtain the money from...

By CHATULA KAMPO – THE Ngabwe Royal Establishment has appealed against the declaration of Ignatius Kashoka as Chief Ngabwe of the Lenje-Lamba speaking people by the Lusaka High Court. The Lusaka High Court on March...

EUGUNE MUKUYUNGWA – MORE THAN 50 houses have collapsed in Kawambwa District in Luapula Province after close to 14 hours of heavy rainfall. The devastating rain occurred between 18:00 hours on Monday to 08:00 hours...