By NAKUBIANA SHABONGO and KASONDE KASONDE – EDUCATION Minister John Phiri has inaugurated the Kwame Nkrumah and Chalimbana University councils. Dr Phiri has since directed the two university councils to set up a new strategic...

By REBECCA MUSHOTA – EIGHTY-TWO fishermen out of the 98 that were abducted on Sunday by Congolese soldiers in Nsumbu area in Nsama District, have been released. More than 100 fishermen were abducted on Sunday...

By CHARITY MOONGA – GOVERNMENT has set aside K2 million to open up new embassies in Australia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), among others. Foreign Affairs Minister Harry Kalaba said in Parliament on Tuesday...

By PERPETUAL SICHIKWENKWE – THE nineteen-year-old University of Zambia (UNZA) student who is admitted to the University Teaching Hospital (UTH) is responding well to medication and has since started eating light meals. Lizwe Ndhlovu sustained...

By KENNEDY MUPESENI – THE Government will soon develop a tariff policy for the utilisation of renewable energy resources in the country, a Government energy expert has said. Stakeholders in the energy sector have been...

By JULIUS PHIRI – A TANZANIAN and a Zambian have been arrested for trafficking in over 650 bundles of miraa. Demi Simon Mbasela, 45, alias David Peter, a Tanzanian business executive of Kasumbalesa in the...

By REBECCA MUSHOTA and CHILA NAMAIKO – A MWENSE man has died after he was electrocuted by a cut Zesco cable that he came in contact with following a heavy down pour. Albert Mukobe, 30,...

By PERPETUAL SICHIKWENKWE – INCARCERATED Mufumbwe Member of Parliament (MP) Steven Masumba has sworn an affidavit in the Supreme Court denying authoring a complaint attacking the integrity of the Judiciary. Masumba who is former Deputy...

By KASONDE KASONDE – A POLICE officer from Mumbwa has narrated in the Kabwe High Court how he found a gun and ammunition in a house of the man accused of killing his father. Emmanuel...

By CHARITY MOONGA – LABOUR and Social Security Minister Fackson Shamenda has directed Hotel Inter-Continental management to reinstate the suspended 115 workers who were relieved of their duties following an industrial dispute. Mr Shamenda directed...