By DAVIS MULENGA – FIRST Quantum Minerals (FQM) has appealed to government to help speed up regulatory approvals that include a multi-million Kwacha town development at Kalumbila, 120 kilometres west of Solwezi, where the global...

  By JUDITH NAMUTOWE – BANK of Zambia (BoZ) Governor Michael Gondwe says copper output declined by 2.5 per cent to 276, 075.0 tonnes from 283,042.3 in the first quarter of 2014. Dr Gondwe however...

  By SYLVIA MWEETWA – CENTRAL Province Permanent Secretary Edwidge Mutale says  the clergy’s involvement  in  criminals  activities  is  tearing  communities  apart and has to stop. Ms Mutale  said  in the  recent  past, there had...

By MWEWA SHAMATUTU – Agriculture and Livestock Deputy Minister Greyford Monde says small-holder dairy farming has potential to enhance the development of the dairy industry in Zambia. Mr Monde said Government realises the key role...

By REBECCA MUSHOTA – GOVERNMENT is concerned that Kafubu River in Ndola is choked by weeds, silt and encroachment problems, have limited water supply to the southern part of the city. Copperbelt Permanent Secretary Howard...

By CHILA  NAMAIKO – A TWENTY-ONE-YEAR-OLD man has allegedly raped an imbecile of Kaleya Township in Mazabuka District. Justine Musokotwane of unknown House number, but a resident of Kaleya Township allegedly raped the imbecile at...

By KAIKO NAMUSA – THE Ministry of Health has condemned the use of traditional medicine to induce labour. The ministry said the practice had continued to claim lives of many expectant mothers and was a...

A THIRTY-THREE-YEAR-OLD Mkushi  Bricklayer  who  assaulted  and  defiled  a  12-year-old  girl  has  been sentenced  to  20 years  imprisonment with hard labour. Lusaka based High Court Judge Chalwe Mchenga, sitting in Kabwe, also sentenced  two  men ...

By XAVIER MANCHISHI – FORMER Zambia Army commander Wisdom Lopa’s mother Margarete Mwansa Lopa, 84, has died.   The late Ms Lopa died at Maina Soko military hospital after an illness and will be buried...

By REBECCA MUSHOTA – A FOURTY-SIX-YEAR-OLD Chinese contractor has been arrested for assaulting one of his workers in Mwense. Dong Mians, a supervisor at Zheng Tai Company of Mwense, was arrested on Saturday for assaulting...