By FRANCINA PHIRI – THE Government has spent more than K27 million in controlling the Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) that broke out in some parts of the country last year affecting thousands heads of...

By JOSEPH BANDA – THE six Chingola police officers caught in the company of a gang that raided Konkola Copper Mines (KCM) Nchanga plant on Monday for scrap metal have been formally arrested. Sources have...

By STEVEN ZANDE – VICE-PRESIDENT Inonge Wina has directed relevant authorities to ensure supermarket chain stores countrywide stock more locally produced goods to empower struggling local producers and enterprises. Ms Wina expressed concern that chain...

By FRANCINA PHIRI – A 79-YEAR-OLD man of Kawambwa District has been bitten to death by his daughter and granddaughter on suspicion of practising witchcraft. Webster Mwengula of Mutono Village in Chief Munkunta’s area is...

By JULIUS PHIRI – A WOMAN of Chipata’s Magazine township is in police custody for murder after allegedly pouring hot porridge on her estranged husband who later died. Violet Ingwe, 23, a marketeer at Magazine...

By JAMES KUNDA and MAIMBOLWA MULIKELELA – UNITED Party for National Development (UPND) president Hakainde Hichilema and economic experts have welcomed the government’s mooted measures to resuscitate the national economy. On Monday, Cabinet resolved to...

By KASONDE KASONDE THE Government says that it is owed more than K3 billion by Konkola Copper Mines (KCM) in unpaid taxes. Chief Government spokespersons Dora Siliya said against the K3.01 billion KCM owed the...

By PERPETUAL SICHIKWENKWE  – LUSAKA principal magistrate David Simusamba yesterday warned that he will at the next sitting, proceed with trial with, or without former Roan Member of Parliament (MP) Chishimba Kambwili’s defence lawyers. Mr...

By STEPHANIE KUNDA – A TWENTY-SIX-YEAR-OLD man has been sentenced to death after he was found guilty of killing his best friend whom he suspected of having an affair with his girlfriend last year. Justin...

By MUSONDA MANGILASHI  – A MAN whose wife perished when their bedroom caught fire has told a judge he had left her chained to a bed to keep her from straying as she was mentally...