By REBECCA MUSHOTA – VICE-PRESIDENT Inonge Wina has urged the African Union (AU) to ensure that the gender equality criteria are included in the African Peer Review Mechanism in order for governments to adhere to...

By CHILA NAMAIKO  – THE House of Chiefs has recommended that Parliament should enact a law that will deter foreigners from acquiring land in the country and those already in possession should give it back...

By KASONDE KASONDE – TRANSPORT and Communications Minister Brian Mushimba has said he will,in the forth coming session of Parliament present three bills to regulate the use of social media and protect the consumers. Mr...

By FRANCINA PHIRI – THE National Road Fund Agency (NRFA) has said that the Agency will soon migrate from using the simplified toll gates to the electronic toll gates. NRFA public relations manager Alphonsius Hamachila...

By MAPULANGA LIBINGA – DESPITE the directive by the Ministry of Education to ban schools without good sanitation facilities from opening, Ndola’s Hands Compassion Community School has continued to operate without clean water supply. The...

By SYLVESTER MWALE – ABOUT 36 per cent of more than 192,500 hectares of maize in Central Province have been damaged beyond redemption due to the prolonged dry spell,” according to a preliminary report seen...

By MILDRED KATONGO – ALL Copperbelt mining company chief executive officers and management officials have been summoned by Copperbelt Minister Bowman Lusambo following the plans to conduct a mine investment audit. The Association of Mine...

By SYLVESTER MWALE – NEGOTIATIONS between the Government and public university unions to dismantle more than K6 billion debt have collapsed after Government representatives and university managements failed to attend a scheduled meeting in Kabwe...

By FRANCINA PHIRI – TWO convicted criminals from Mansa Correctional Facility in Luapula Province have escaped from custody after removing two blocks off the wall of the lavatory in the prison cells. Luapula Province Police...

By HELLEN TEMBO – THE United Nations (UN) in Zambia, Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (CDC) and the Department for International Development (DFID) have commended the Government’s initiative of setting up an efficient cholera...