By FLAVIOR CHISHALA – THE Non-Governmental Organisations Coordinating Council (NGOCC) has said there is need to revisit the punishment for sexual offences as the current penalties do not suffice in stopping would-be offenders. NGOCC executive...

By SYLVIA MWEETWA – TRIAL in a case in which a Kabwe-based soldier is accused of killing his wife commenced yesterday with a witness testifying that the deceased was found with her tongue protruding while white foam came out of her nostrils. Sydney Lungu, 40,  of Chimanimani Township, testified before Kabwe  High Court judge Elita Mwikisa that he was shocked to...

By CHILA NAMAIKO – A TEAM of volunteers with multiple skills from United Kingdom (UK) has arrived in Choma on a three-month working visit to support Government’s delivery of quality reproductive health services to the...

By KASONDE KASONDE – ONE of the lions that have been terrorising people in Chief Shimbizhi’s area in Itezhi Tezhi has been gunned down. Itezhi Tezhi District Commissioner Roy Na’ngalewa disclosed that a farmer of...

By REBECCA MUSHOTA – MORE than 300 former Zamtel workers are demanding payment of their retrenchment dues from the company worth K130 million. According to a statement signed by the spokesperson for the former non-represented...

  By PERPETUAL SICHIKWENKWE – A WITNESS has told the Lusaka magistrate’s court that former Zambia Railways Limited (ZRL) chief executive officer (CEO) Clive Chirwa recommended his company, Clavel Incorporated Limited, to be engaged to...

By BRIAN HATYOKA – SOME unknown people have stolen 199 railway pandrol clips in Mazabuka, Southern Province deputy police chief Alfred Nawa has said. Mr Nawa said the railway clips, whose value was not yet...

 By CHUSA SICHONE-  THE National Restoration Party (NAREP) has devised strategies aimed at wooing the electorate to vote for its candidate in the February 25, 2014 parliamentary by-election in Katuba Constituency. The United National Independence...

By NORMA SIAME – GOVERNMENT has rejected a monetary donation made by suspended Patriotic Front (PF) Kasama Central Member of Parliament (MP) Geoffrey Mwamba towards the construction of a bus terminus in Kasama. Local Government...

By XAVIER MANCHISHI –  THE Drug Enforcement Commission (DEC) in Luapula Province has arrested four inmates at Nchelenge State Prison for trafficking in cannabis. DEC assistant public relations officer Chibu Mwansa Tembo confirmed the arrest...