By JULIUS PHIRI – A THIRTY FOUR-year-old man of Petauke District in Eastern Province has been jailed for 35 years with hard labour after being convicted of defiling a four-year-old girl. Francis Mumba of Mtilizi...

By MILDRED KATONGO – KITWE District AIDS coordination advisor has attributed the high HIV/AIDS infection rate in the district to the mushrooming boarding houses. Regina Katongo said during the Kitwe District AIDS Task force (DATF)...

By BENNET SIMBEYE – in Sandton, South Africa CHINA has pledged to provide funding for the expansion of the Levy Mwanawasa General Hospital in Lusaka which will make the health institution the second largest in...

By MARTIN MUSUNKA – THE Canadian government has enacted legislation that will compel all Canadian mining companies to publicly disclose the financial payments they make to governments both in Canada and overseas. The Extractive Sector...

By REBECCA MUSHOTA – POLICE have picked up 20 pig carcasses in Kanyama Township which are suspected to have been poisoned in a bid to be sold to unsuspecting residents. One person has been arrested...

By JAMES KUNDA – THE Government will next year establish two national parks in provinces which will be identified with enough resources to accommodate game reserves, Tourism and Arts Minister Jean Kapata has said. This...

By SYLVIA  MWEETWA – A THIRTY-TWO-YEAR-OLD banker who ran over and killed three pedestrians in Kapiri Mposhi last year due to speeding has escaped incarceration after the court fined him K9,000. Chilekwa Chilumba was facing...

By REBECCA MUSHOTA – THE Zambia Road Safety Trust (ZRST) says up to 100 children were killed in road traffic accidents last year. ZRST chairperson Daniel Mwamba said when Puma Energy Zambia donated K24,650 to...

By HAPPY  MULOLANI – ZAMBIA is endowed with a lot of natural and abundant resources, yet the growth of the agricultural sector has been at a slow pace. It is worth noting that Zambia has...

By CHRIS KAKUNTA – AT Zambia’s Agricultural Research Institute (ZARI) commonly known as Mount Makulu, in the outskirts of Lusaka, 29-year-old Marie-Claire Mukasine, a research technician with the International Institute for Tropical Agriculture (IITA), repeatedly...