By MILDRED KATONGO – LUANSHYA Mayor Gordon Siwale has urged residents to be industrious and support new measures which are aimed at promoting agriculture in the urban set up. Mr  Siwale said in his New...

By PERPETUAL SICHIKWENKWE – A LUSAKA parent yesterday testified how his eight-year-old daughter was allegedly defiled by a 22-year-old man who left her unconscious. Peter Mwila 22, a mechanic of George Township in Lusaka is...

By CHILA NAMAIKO – THE newly constructed Munyumbwe hospital in Gwembe District of Southern Province will be commissioned in May this year. District Commissioner (DC) Alice Mwiinga also said that the construction of 10 rural...

By MOFFAT  CHAZINGWA – A POLICE officer believed to have been drunk while on duty and fired a teargas canister at Chimwemwe Police Post in Kitwe has remained in detention as investigations against him are...

By JULIUS PHIRI – THE Immigration Department, in collaboration with the Zambia Police Service, has arrested 77 Ethiopians in Kabangwe area in Lusaka for unlawful entry and stay. The team of Police and immigration officers,...

THE Zambian Government has bailed out the financially troubled Tanzania Zambia Railway Authority (TAZARA) with funds to offset three months’ salary arrears owed to unionised workers. Crews Allied Workers Union of Zambia (CRAWUZ) president, Bevis...

By JAMES KUNDA  – PRESIDENT Edgar Lungu has declared today as a half working day for public service workers. This is to enable them to attend the ceremony at which he will assent to the...

By PERPETUAL SICHIKWENKWE – THIRTY-FIVE Kafue residents arrested during riots yesterday appeared in a Kafue magistrate’s court and pleaded not guilty to riotous behaviour. Kafue residents on New Year’s Day ran amok after a Police...

THE LAST WORD By AUSTIN KALUBA – WHILE ethnocentrism is usually defined as the act of having pride in the ethnic group or race that you belong to, it is rarely positive as presented. Ethnocentrism...

I REMEMBER  With Alfred Mulenga – Exactly five years later I found myself at Kazungula border on December 1, 2015 in a queue of hundreds of early morning travellers and international transporters from Zambia and...