By CATHERINE NYIRENDA – POLITICAL parties and the civil society organisations have welcomed the decision by Cabinet to approve the introduction of the Referendum (Amendment) Bill of 2015 in Parliament to amend the Referendum Act...

AND behold, our Republican President Edgar Lungu has lived up to the promise he made early this year by giving Zambians a new Constitution through a referendum. The President made his commitment on the referendum...

By DELPHINE ZULU – MUSICIAN, Chama Fumba, alias Pilato appeared in court yesterday and pleaded not guilty to the charge of conduct likely to cause breach of peace. Fumba has since been released upon payment...

By CATHERINE NYIRENDA – THE go-slow by University of Zambia (UNZA) lecturers over non-payment of contractual obligations has entered its second week. This is despite an assurance from management that the demanded payments will be...

By DELPHINE ZULU – TWO people have appeared in court for illegally manufacturing and selling a drug they claimed cures HIV/AIDS. Mendez Fernandez, 39, a Lusaka businessman of Chalala Township, appeared with a co-accused Pauline...

By REBECCA MUSHOTA – Vice-President Inonge Wina has bemoaned Zambia’s lack of adequate capacity to mitigate and address disasters on the country’s water bodies. Ms Wina said there was need to place emphasis on disaster...

From BETNIKO  KAYAYA – in Beijing, CHINA THE Fifth African Digital Television Development conference is underway in Beijing, China. Countries world-over, Zambia included, are preparing to switch over from analogue to digital television broadcasting on...

By REBECCA MUSHOTA – VICE-PRESIDENT Inonge Wina says the wedding of a young couple at Lusaka’s University Teaching Hospital (UTH) has proved that love can conquer everything. A Lusaka couple, Suzyo Muzuri, an accountant at...

By MILDRED KATONGO – A chef in Solwezi who sodomised two men and infected them with a sexually transmitted infection (STIs) has been jailed for 35 years. McDonald Siwale appeared before Judge Isaac Kamwendo of...

By SYLVIA MWEETWA – MUKOBEKO Maximum Prison in Kabwe is using four electric pots instead of the required 20 to prepare meals for more than 2,000 inmates incarcerated at the facility. This has forced prison...