By JULIUS PHIRI – IRATE farmers on Monday stormed the office of the District Agricultural coordinator in Chipata, demanding for their share of the fertiliser under the Farmer Input Support Programme (FISP). More than 100...

By PERPETUAL SICHIKWENKWE – GOVERNMENT has approved the release of K400,000 from the Constituency Development Fund (CDF) for the establishment of a community radio station in Sinjembela Constituency in Western Province. UPND Sinjembela Member of...

By XAVIER MANCHISHI – THE Movement for Multiparty Democracy (MMD) and the United Party for National Development (UPND) will each go it alone in the forthcoming parliamentary by-elections in Katuba, Mkushi South and Solwezi Central....

By REBECCA MUSHOTA – A 28-YEAR-OLD woman of Kwacha township in Mufulira has allegedly been raped by a man she invited for a drink up at her house on Sunday. Acting Copperbelt police chief, Joyce...

By CHATULA KAMPO – GOVERNMENT has raised K5.1 million towards the procurement of a dredger that will help remove weeds in the Kafubu River in Ndola. Copperbelt Permanent Secretary Stanford Msichili in an interview said...

By BRIAN HATYOKA – SOUTHERN Province Minister Daniel Munkombwe has called for the curbing of illegal fuel vending to safeguard the lives of people in the country. Mr Munkombwe said illegal fuel vendors were endangering...

By JAMES KUNDA – THE Food Reserve Agency (FRA) has so far approved 35 applications from millers countrywide, for the purchase of 47,188 tonnes of maize to mitigate mealie meal shortages and stabilise prices of...

By FELIX MALUNGA – A FEUD is brewing in Luanshya where Patriotic Front (PF) national youth chairperson, Chishimba Kambwili has threatened to expel Luanshya Member of Parliament (MP), Steve Chungu and two others for allegedly...

By PERPETUAL SICHIKWENKWE – ACTING Deputy Chief Justice Florence Mumba has retired from her position after reaching the retirement age of 65. Judiciary public relations officer Terry Musonda said in an interview yesterday that after...

FORDIE Kambobe, the first Zambian to serve as managing director at Nitrogen Chemicals of Zambia (NCZ), is dead. Mr Kambobe, 65, is survived by a wife, Theresa, five children and six grandchildren. Davis Mulenga, a...