By KAIKO NAMUSA- EASTERN Province is poised for increased economic activity following works to rehabilitate the Great East Road and the launch of the Mchinji railway line operations, Provincial Permanent Secretary Mulenga Chileshe has said....

By SYLVIA MWEETWA- A THIRTY-FOUR-YEAR-OLD woman of Mumbwa District has died after she was hit with a shovel and a concrete block on the head by her husband. Rebecca Mulowa  sustained a broken skull from...

By CHARITY MOONGA- GOVERNMENT has released K418.5 million for debt service, development programmes and operations, Secretary to the Treasury, Fredson Yamba has said. Mr Yamba said Zambia could not afford to slip into a debt...

By JUDITH  NAMJUTOWE- THE GOVERNMENT has approved the 2014-2018 National Strategy for Development of Statistics (NSDS)  and the National Planning and Budgeting Policy, The Implementation of the NSDS would ensure an effective National Statistics System...

By CHARITY MOONGA- THE Parliamentary Accounts Committee (PAC) yesterday heard that former  Chipata Central  Member of Parliament, (MP) Lameck Mangani irregularly single-sourced and awarded a borehole drilling contract worth K360,000 from the Constituency Development Funds...

By CHILA  NAMAIKO- CHOMA’S Macha Police officer-in-charge, Emmanuel Zulu, has been arrested and charged with two counts of assault on two residents of Namwala District. Police spokesperson Charity Munganga, who confirmed this yesterday, said Mr...

By ETAMBUYU SANG’ANDU and MOFFAT CHAZINGWA THE two incarcerated brothers, Emmanuel Katongo Junior, 21, and his 18-year-old brother charged with murder of their biological mother in Kitwe some two weeks ago yesterday appeared in a...

By XAVIER MANCHISHI and SYLVESTER MWALE- A SEVENTY-YEAR-OLD woman of Lusaka’s Chalala area has been burnt to death after she failed to come out of a burning house. Christine Kambunga died after she failed to...

By CHARITY MOONGA- THE Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has summoned directors of Techmiya Commercials Limited, a company contracted to supply earth moving equipment worth K8 million from the United Kingdom (UK) which has not been...

By JULIUS PHIRI- FIVE traffic police officers from Chipata Central Police Station yesterday pleaded not guilty to three counts of corruption charges in a Chipata Magistrate Court. The five, all sergeants by rank who took...