By HAMATAN KACHABE  – A FORTY-TWO-YEAR-OLD Chinese businessman has been arrested for producing fake shoes labeled Bata, with police seizing 2,768 pairs worth K68,800 from his shop in Lusaka. The Bata brand is legally owned...

By KELVIN MUDENDA – SMUGGLING remains the biggest cancer to domestic revenue mobilisation quite apart from eroding the competitiveness for local products, Finance Minister Felix Mutati has said. Mr Mutati said the Zambia Revenue Authority...

By PERPETUAL SICHIKWENKWE – SLAIN Auto Force proprietor Reeves Malambo’s lover Tshiabu Benos yesterday wailed in court as she narrated the unfolding events which led to how she ended up stabbing her boyfriend to death...

By JAMES KUNDA  – PRESIDENT Edgar Lungu wants Government to come up with measures to protect local farmers from unfair competition from imported agricultural commodities such as fruit and vegetables that are locally grown. Addressing...

By HELEN ZULU – THE International Monetary Fund (IMF) has advised the Zambian Government to avoid contracting non-concessional loans in order to put its debt on a sustainable path. And the Zambia Institute for Policy...

“The IMF has done its Debt Sustanability Assessment for Zambia and I suspect it is of the view that additional non-concessional loans to the country are presently unsustainable. Debt sustainability in IMF terms simply means...

By DELPHINE ZULU – JAILED former Ministry of Health chief of human resources and development Henry Kapoko has been ordered to forfeit properties amounting to more than K730,000. Lusaka Deputy High Court registrar, AridahChulu, sitting...

THE United Nations has called for vigorous action to neutralise the continued threats posed by negative forces in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and the Great Lakes Region. United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres...

By MILDRED KATONGO and STEPHANIE KUNDA  – All teachers are now required to get licensed with the Teaching Commission of Zambia before they can be allowed to stand at the blackboard. The TCZ, the body...

By RABECCA CHIPANTA – CASH strapped and deeply indebted Ndola City Council (NCC), has reportedly staked various properties as collateral for the purchase of nine Ford Ranger WildTrak vehicles for management valued at hundreds of ...