By BENNET SIMBEYE  – in Johannesburg South Africa THE Government will revive the women-in-mining initiative as part of a programme to continue empowering women in Zambia, President Edgar Lungu has said. The President said women...

By JAMES KUNDA – A WEEK-LONG campaign against elephantiasis has commenced in Ndola with more than 400,000 residents earmarked to receive preventive medication against the disease. Elephantiasis is a disease characterised by massive swelling of...

By ANDREW PHIRI – MULOBEZI Community Rural Health Centre in Western Province has over the past four years not recorded any maternal deaths. Mulobezi clinical officer-in-charge Dickson Mwaliteta said the health institution had lined up...

By MOSES CHIMFWEMBE – ZAMBIA’S female top seed Ogar Siamupangila minted a silver medal at the just-ended Yonex Mauritius International Badminton championship staged at National Badminton Centre in Rose Hill. Ogar put up an impressive...

By GWEN CHIPASULA – ZAMBIA will today be aiming for a positive start when they take on hosts and pre-tournament favourites South Africa in the first game of the 2015 Diamond Netball Challenge. The tournament...

By JULIUS PHIRI – PETAUKE Central is one of the three constituencies in Petauke District of Eastern Province. The constituency borders Kapoche and Msanzala constituencies on one side and on the other are Nyimba and...

By FELIX MALUNGA – A ROYAL Gibson Hotel team led by Africa Golf Confederation (AGC) president, Joe Malanji on Sunday put up an exhilarating performance to win the Ndola Trust School Golf Day with a...

By SHAMAOMA MUSONDA – PING PONG star Mubanga Kunda at the weekend beat her nemesis, Latifah Nalavwe to win the Magnum Securities sponsored Zambia Table Tennis Association (ZTTA) fifth national championship held in Lusaka. Kunda,...

By MAIMBOLWA MULIKELELA – UNIVERSAL Mining and Chemical Industries Limited (UMCIL) will invest about US$250 million in the construction of an 80-kilometre railway line from Mumbwa to Kafue District in Lusaka. The railway line –...

By JUDITH NAMUTOWE – THE SNV Netherlands Development Organisation supported more than 40,000 small-scale farmers in Zambia’s agriculture sector in 2014. According to SNV annual report, the organisation provided business linkages and training to 41,659...