By CHARITY MOONGA – THE Food Reserve Agency, (FRA) has announced that it will stop purchasing maize from farmers on October 7. The crop marketing season, which was scheduled to close on October 31, 2014,...

By CHARITY MOONGA – The Drug Enforcement Commission in North-Western Province has arrested a couple for unlawful cultivation of fresh cannabis plants weighing more than 700 kilogrammes. DEC assistant public relations officer Chibu Tembo said...

By CHARITY MOONGA – AN OPPOSITION UPND Member of Parliament (MP) on Tuesday evening commended President Michael Sata’s call for regrouping of Zambia’s medical personnel to strengthen the medical system in Zambia. Contributing to debate...

By CHARITY MOONGA – PATRIOTIC Front (PF) Secretary General Edgar Lungu has condemned what he termed as the “impunity” of land grabbing, illegal land allocation and disrespect of the law by unscrupulous people masquerading as...

By PERPETUAL SICHIKWENKWE – FORMER deputy Youth and Sports minister Steven Masumba has asked the Supreme Court to acquit him of a charge of obtaining pecuniary advantages when he used an accounting technician diploma certificate...

By NORMA SIAME – A HORDE of fraudsters selling fake Grade 12 examination papers have flooded Northern Province where desperate pupils eager to pass their GCE examinations are falling prey to the scheme. The group...

By CLEVER ZULU  – THE Rural Electrification Authority (REA) has threatened to terminate the contract for the construction of the Luampa power substation in Luampa District in Western Province. REA Board chairperson Professor Jorry Mwenechanya...

By NORMA SIAME – A MAN of Chinsali District has been sentenced to 30 years imprisonment with hard labour for defiling his 10-year-old step daughter and giving her six crickets for lunch. Before Kasama High...

By REBECCA MUSHOTA – THREE men purporting to be selling an unregistered car from Nakonde, have stolen K50,000 from a teacher of Samfya District. The three men on Monday afternoon allegedly met Blackson Kakembwe, a...

By NAKUBIANA SHABONGO? – PRISON Fellowship says it is keen to improve conditions in Prisons in developing countries, to eliminate diseases. Prisons Fellowship Zambia chairperson, Rajan Mahtani, who is Finance Bank chairperson, said the Prison...