By SYLVIA MWEETWA – CENTRAL Province Police chief Standwell Lungu has paid tribute to a local company for constructing detention cells at Mkushi Police station at a cost of K130,000. Due to lack of holding cells at Mkushi police station, authorities had been keeping suspects at the inquiries desk...

By MOFFAT CHAZINGWA – AUTHORITIES at Kamfinsa Female Prison in Kitwe are seeking help to have the dysfunctional electrical kitchen at the state-facility renovated. The kitchen ceased to function last year when fire caused by...

By FLAVIOR CHISHALA – THE Justice for Widows and Orphans Project (JWOP) has called for the amendment of the intestate succession Act of 1989 to protect widows and orphans from untold suffering in the wake...

A VERY prominent church pastor in Lusaka would usually preach a message on giving. On one particular occasion, one of her congregants, whom I will call Jane Banda (not real name), was moved so much...

THERE was a time when one commercial bank in Zambia attempted to entice people to open accounts with the bank, they even went a step further by opening banks in townships. Today, many people have...

LUSAKA – Zambia coach Patrice Beaumelle says he was delighted to have TP Mazembe midfielder Rainford Kalaba back after a six month exile from the team. Kalaba ended his exile on March 5 with an...

By CHILA NAMAIKO – FIRST Lady Christine Kaseba has said there is need for the country’s criminal justice system to be equal to the task of fighting Gender-Based Violence (GBV) to ensure citizens enjoy their...

By CHARITY MOONGA – THE Public Accounts Committee (PAC) yesterday took the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to task over the continued violation of financial regulations by missions abroad in which Zambia was losing thousands of...

By MAYA NTANDA – A THREE-YEAR-OLD girl has allegedly been defiled by three boys, two of them brothers, in Kitwe’s Bulangililo Township. The boys aged 10, nine and seven allegedly took turns in defiling the...

By NAKUBIANA SHABONGO – HEALTH Minister Joseph Kasonde says malaria has remained a serious problem in Zambia in the past one-and-a-half years. Speaking after the inauguration ceremony of the Medical Stores Limited (MSL) Board in...