By KASONDE KASONDE – MOBILE money agents have been warned against brandishing huge sums of money when attending to customers as doing so only attracts criminals to pounce on them, the Zambia Police Service has...

By KAIKO NAMUSA – AN extraordinary 7,525-carat (1.505kg) single-crystal Chipembele was awarded the record for the largest high-quality emerald ever discovered at Gemfields’ Kagem mine in Zambia.Chipembele is known as “the rhino emerald,” with Chipembele...

By MUSONDA MANGILASHI – MORE than US$4.5 million of drips manufactured by the International Drug Company (IDC) based in Kabwe are going to waste as the Government has allegedly shunned buying the product opting for...

By KASONDE KASONDE – THE Centre for Environment Justice (CEJ) estimates that there are between 4,000 and 6,000 poachers lurking in the Kafue National Park alone.CEJ board chairperson Vincent Ziba said in a statement that...

By DOROTHY CHISI – WHILE rescue efforts are ongoing at a flooded mine on the outskirts of Burkina Faso’s capital Ouagadougou, reports indicate that a Zambian who was among six other trapped miners is dead....

By PASSY HAACHIZO – A PARLIAMENTARIAN says a trend has emerged in his rural constituency where teenage girls are using the pregnancy trap to trick their parents into allowing them to drop out of school...

By KENNEDY MUPESENI and DAVID KANDUZA – Vedanta Resources or other investors interested in Konkola Copper Mines (KCM) must meet several benchmarks before starting operations, the industry’s three main unions said yesterday. Read more...

By DOROTHY CHISI – AFRICA Finance Corporation (AFC) has announced the launch of a US$2 billion facility to support bank-driven economic recovery in Africa, and the resilience of African economies.This is to help cushion the...

By FRANCINA CHOMBA – ABOUT 60 per cent of the more than 300 street children who were rounded up in Lusaka by Community Development Minister Doreen Mwamba on Thursday have been diagnosed with Sexually Transmitted...

By KASONDE KASONDE – THE Teaching Service Commission (TSC) has alleged that some traditional leaders and Members of Parliament (MPs) have been pressurising the commission to recruit their favoured applicants at the expense of quality...