By JULIUS PHIRI – JAPAN Tobacco International (JTI) Leaf Zambia has this year spent US$500,000 on water and sanitation, education, and health programmes in Eastern Province. JTI managing director Robert Royle said on Thursday at...

By NORMA SIAME – POLICE in Kasama have impounded hundreds of motor vehicles and fined motorists in an attempt to crackdown on criminal activities and reduce cases of road carnage. Northern Province police chief Charity Katanga...

By CATHERINE NYIRENDA – GOVERNMENT has commended Nanga Farms for being the only agriculture entity that has consistently been declaring dividends since 2009. Secretary to the Treasury, Fredson Yamba said Government had so far received...

By JULIUS PHIRI – ZAMBIA is topping other 16 landlocked African countries in foreign investment inflows. According to the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), Zambia has the highest inflow of Foreign Direct...

By PERPETUAL SICHIKWENKWE – THE Lusaka high court has again dismissed former deputy minister Steven Masumba’s request for bail pending his appeal to the Supreme Court against his 12-month prison sentence. The court has since...

By PERPETUAL SICHIKWENKWE – A FORMER Kabwe Municipal Council director of engineering services has been arrested by the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) for abuse of authority. Cosmas Mpundu was arrested yesterday and charged with one count...

By REBECCA MUSHOTA – POLICE are holding a man of Kasumwa Village in Chief Kalaba’s area in Mansa and his wife for allegedly conspiring to have their 12-year-old daughter defiled, as part of a cleansing...

By YVONNE CHATE – HELP Age Zambia has appealed to Government to consider giving old people total free access to medical services and drugs. Help Age Zambia executive director London Mwape said this yesterday during...

BY SYLVIA MWEETWA  – THE Kabwe magistrate’s court has acquitted a Zambia Air Force officer who was appearing in court for theft of K10,000 from a retired Zambia Army officer. This is in a case in which Peter Nyirongo,28, denied one count...

By REBECCA MUSHOTA – ZAMBIAN local authorities should engage the grassroots for tourism and agricultural programmes to succeed, Bernalillo County Commissioner of New Mexico in the United States of America (USA) Debbie O’Malley has said....