By SANDRA MWILA WORLD Boxing Council (WBC) bantamweight gold champion Catherine Phiri says she will cope with the huge task of defending her title within the next six months as well as writing her Grade...

THERE is need to find a lasting solution to the perennial outbreak of waterborne diseases which seem to be affecting Kanyama Township in Lusaka. It is unacceptable to continue spending huge sums of money on...

By REBECCA MUSHOTA – THE Lusaka Province medical office has urged Lusaka residents to heed seriously to messages of cholera prevention to curb new cases. Meanwhile, the Lusaka Water and Sewerage Company (LWSC) has suspended...

By MILDRED KATONGO – FIRST Lady Esther Lungu has urged parents to encourage their children to complete their education and stop marrying them off at tender ages. Ms Lungu said it was important that children...

By MILDRED KATONGO – MORE than 400 children are held in prison facilities awaiting trial, the latest Human Rights Commission (HRC)’s Child Justice report has revealed. The report says during the monitoring visits to prison...

By MOFFAT CHAZINGWA – GOVERNMENT is optimistic that most of the 4, 000 miners that have been laid off at Mopani Copper Mines (MCM) will be re-employed once the Glencore-owned mining firm’s ambitious transformation programmes...

By REBECCA MUSHOTA – GOVERNMENT has thanked the African Road Maintenance Funds Association (ARMFA) for according Zambia an opportunity to lead the body for a two-year non-renewable tenure from 2013 to 2015. The ARMFA has...

By PERPETUAL SICHIKWENKWE in Solwezi – PRESIDENT Edgar Lungu has implored the church in the country to be the torch-bearer of messages of peace and offer counsel to political leaders in the run-up to the...

By PERPETUAL SICHIKWENKWE in Kalumbila  – PRESIDENT Lungu yesterday commissioned a solar-powered milling plant at Kambazhi in Solwezi, North-Western Province, which will see mealie-meal prices cut by half. In places where the milling plants were...

By MILDRED KATONGO – A SEVEN-YEAR-OLD girl in Ndola has died after being viciously attacked by two Boerboel dogs at her parent’s residence, police have confirmed. Twiggy Chisenga, a Grade one pupil of Pamodzi Overspill...