By JULIUS PHIRI   – FIRST Lady Esther Lungu has arrived in the United States of America for a series of high-level meetings in Dallas, Texas and New York. Ms Lungu will participate in the meetings...

By SYLVIA MWEETWA  – THE Kabwe magistrates’ court has committed 92 Somalians to the High Court for sentencing after they pleaded guilty to the offence of consenting to being smuggled into Zambia. Another court discharged eight Somali juvenile offenders who...

By DELPHINE ZULU – THE African Road Maintenance Funds Association (ARMFA) has called for measures to come up with funding options aimed at bridging the financial gaps in road maintenance, construction and rehabilitation. ARMFA chairperson...

By MILDRED KATONGO – THE Engineering Institute of Zambia (EIZ) has said that the 591 engineering companies operating without valid practicing licences countrywide risks being de-registered. EIZ registrar Henry Mwale said the firms were contravening...

By REBECCA MUSHOTA – THE National Union for Small Scale Farmers of Zambia (NUSSFZ) has hailed President Edgar Lungu’s decision to split the Ministry of Agriculture and shift the department of Cooperatives to the Ministry...

By MOFFAT CHAZINGWA and MILDRED KATONGO – RENOWNED prophet Emmanuel Nyirongo of Kitwe, who was recently in the limelight for turning water into paraffin, has died in a road traffic accident. The accident happened on...

By MILDRED KATONGO – THE ruling Patriotic Front (PF) will win the 2016 general elections because the opposition movement in Zambia does not inspire people anymore, Zambian Voice executive director Chilufya Tayali has said. The...

BRIAN HATYOKA in Sichili, Western Province – VICE-PRESIDENT Inonge Wina has urged traditional leaders in Zambia to allow the electorate in their chiefdoms to participate freely in voting without exerting undue influence on their choice...

By NORMA SIAME – FROM selling roasted cassava and brewing moonshine, Mansa-based business executive Barbara Chilufya has dragged herself from being a charity case poster-child to a highly respected business person. Widely known as Bana...

By CHRISTINE MWAABA – IMAGINE the feeling of being mistaken for a security officer when in fact you are reporting for teaching practice at a high school. This is what Ray Banda had to go...