By EMILY KUWEMA-DEFENCE service chiefs have pledged commitment to contribute to the country’s food basket and economic growth through the expansion of agriculture and aquaculture ventures.This is in response to the directive by President Hakainde...

By BARBARA CHANDA-A MOTHER and her one-year-five-month-old baby have died while 35 other passengers have been injured after a bus they were in overturned on the Great East Road in Nyimba District of Eastern Province.The...

By JOSEPH BANDA-THE Government has extended to Wednesday next week mopping-up of the Census of Population and Housing exercise which was scheduled to end yesterday.Finance and National Planning Minister Situmbeko Musokotwane said yesterday that the...

By JAMES KUNDA-FIVE pupils at the Islamic Education Trust of Zambia School in Lusaka have allegedly been sodomised by three of their fellow older pupils.Meanwhile, the Islamic Supreme Council of Zambia (ISCZ) has condemned the...

By JOSEPH BANDA-PRESIDENT Hakainde Hichilema is today expected in Angola to attend the inauguration of that country’s president-elect Joao Lourenco.According to a statement issued by acting Foreign Affairs Minister Mulambo Haimbe yesterday, President Hichilema is...

By CHUSA SICHONE-AGRICULTURE Minister Reuben Mtolo has disclosed in Parliament that the tender for the Farmer Input Support Programme (FISP) fertiliser has been cancelled because of technical flaws.Mr Mtolo said the system that the Government...

By CHUSA SICHONE and MUSONDA MANGILASHI-THE Government has released nearly K1-billion Constituency Development Fund (CDF) to local authorities countrywide.The release of K976, 422, 159.96 translated into each of the 156 constituencies receiving K6, 259,116.4.Local Government...

By MAPULANGA LIBINGA-PRESIDENT Hakainde Hichilema has with immediate effect suspended Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Lillian Siyuni.President Hichilema has appointed Katongo Waluzimba as acting DPP for administrative convenience.This is according to a statement issued yesterday...

By MUSONDA MANGILASHI-PRESIDENT Hakainde Hichilema says the outcome of the court ruling to defer the Kabushi and Kwacha by-elections demonstrates the independence of the judiciary and real democracy under his administration.President Hichilema who concluded his...

By KELVIN MUDENDA-THE United Party for National Development (UPND) has warned Zambian including its leaders and members against issuing disparaging remarks towards the Judiciary and describing it as being biased, after the Wednesday ruling.The ruling...