By CHRISTINE MWAABA KABWE town, long known for being endowed with zinc and lead deposits, has had a perennial lead poisoning problem. This arises from the long-term pollution caused by mining zinc and lead.It is...

By FRANCINA CHOMBA – PRESIDENT Edger Lungu has declared today a day of national mourning in honour of former Cabinet Minister in the Movement for Multi-party Democracy (MMD) administration, Ephraim Chibwe who died last week....

By JAMES KUNDA  – ZCCM-IH has the capacity to take over the majority 73.1 per cent shareholding held by Swiss miner and commodities trader Glencore, in Mopani Copper Mines, Mines and Minerals Development Minister Richard...

By KASONDE KASONDE – HEALTH Minister Chitalu Chilufya says the biggest challenge in fighting the Coronavirus(COVID-19) now is that people are more scared of police and public health officers enforcing the health guidelines that they...

By STEPHANIE KUNDA – THE Court of Appeal (CA) has upheld the death penalty slapped on a 30-year-old man of Lusaka’s John Howard area who killed his two-year-old son using the pesticide ‘Doom’ and later buried...

By STEPHANIE KUNDA – RESIDENTS of Masala township in Ndola are in shock after a three-year old baby was discovered in a two-roomed house next to its dead mother’s body which was in a decomposed...

By JANE MWANSA – THE Small-Scale Miner’s Association of Zambia (SSMAZ) has added its voice to the chorus of calls urging the ZCCM-IH to go ahead and acquire a greater stake in the Glencore-owned Mopani...

By ESTHER NG’ANDU MORE than 300 small-scale farmers engaged in gardening in Kitwe have admitted to using raw sewer to water and fertilise their gardens and the authorities have given them a three-week ultimatum to...

By CHUSA SICHONE in Sinda and MILDRED KATONGO in Ndola – CHIEF Katumba of the Chewa people in Sinda and Katete districts in Eastern Province has urged his subjects not to sell the fertiliser they...

By Pamella Inambao and Jonathan Mukuka  – President Edgar Lungu has called for unity and patriotism among the Patriotic Front officials. President Lungu said in Chinsali yesterday that development could only be achieved if the...