By JOSEPH BANDA and SAM PHIRI – PRESIDENT Edgar Lungu yesterday led people from a cross section of society in wishing First President Kenneth Kaunda a happy 97th birthday and described him as a winner...

By FRANCINA CHOMBA – THE number of out-of-school children has increased to more than 800,000 with slightly more boys than girls countrywide due to the effects of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Read more...

By CHUSA SICHONE and JANE MWANSA – THE Lusaka City Council (LCC) will be losing about K5 million in monthly revenue generation following Government’s recent directive for all local authorities in Zambia to indefinitely stop...

By JOSEPH BANDA – CON-ARTISTS have created a Ministry of Finance online page and weblink (https://forms.gle/ojGLHzAoxvs3rvn78) with intentions of defrauding people of their hard-earned money and the ministry has exposed the scam. The scam is...

By ESTHER NG’ANDU – A SIXTY-THREE-YEAR-OLD traditional healer of Kalumbila who was on a mission to perform a ritual meant to restore sight to a visually-impaired man has drowned after falling in a stream. Read...

By FRANCINA CHOMBA – MORE than 1,500 religious organisations have applied for funding under the K50 million Coronavirus (COVID-19) church empowerment fund under the ministry of National Guidance and Religious Affairs. Read more...

By KENNEDY MUPESENI COPPER prices on the London Metal Exchange (LME) rose by one per cent to $9,650 a tonne yesterday according to Bloomberg. Prices have climbed amid a broad rally across industrial commodities from...

By CHILA NAMAIKO and FRANCINA CHOMBA – CHIMBAMILONGA Member of Parliament (MP) Hastings Chansa has become the first serving Member of Parliament (MP) to disclose that he has been knocked out from the race to...

By JAMES MUYANWA – THE global proportion of Members of Parliament (MPs) who are aged below 30 has gone up by 2.6 per cent according to the Inter-Parliament Union (IPU) report on Youth Participation in...

By CHILA NAMAIKO – THE Police say they have embarked on dialogue meetings that will culminate in provincial political party leadership peace accords to ensure zero-record political violence before, during and after the 2021 general...