By CHATULA KAMPO- GOVERNMENT has called on school councils and authorities to exercise discipline in ensuring that children’s rights in classrooms are enhanced. Education Deputy Minister David Mabumba said there was need for school councils...

By CHILA NAMAIKO- THREE men in Choma have defiled a 15-year-old girl and left her unconscious. The girl of Kabanana Township was defiled by three unknown men who left her bleeding. She was admitted to...

By JULIUS PHIRI – POLICE in riot gear yesterday fired teargas canisters to disperse a crowd of United Party for National Development (UPND) supporters who were waiting to be addressed by their leader Hakainde Hichilema...

By SYLVIA MWEETWA – POLICE in Chisamba have arrested a 15-year-old boy for allegedly stabbing to death a 26-year-old man over a compact disc (CD). Central Province Police chief Standwell Lungu said the incident occurred at Sable...

IT is now evident that bandits have set their criminal activities on rural dwellers from whom they are snatching huge sums of money and other valuables with maximum ease. A fresh pattern shows that gun-toting...

By REBECCA MUSHOTA- FOUR men armed with pistols have stolen K72,000 from a Samfya business executive’s house. The four men, wearing masks and black overalls and also armed with a crowbar and a round bar,...

By TIMOTHY MUZIYA- THE Department of Chiefs and Traditional Affairs in Mkushi District, has announced plans to investigate the encroachment and illegal cutting of trees in Mulungwe Chiefdom. Mkushi District’s Chiefs and Traditional Affairs Officer...

By CHATULA KAMPO- GOVERNMENT has said the church has been weakened on account of poor leadership. Copperbelt Permanent Secretary Stanford Msichili said it was sad to note that the Church had become weak due to...

By CHUSA SICHONE- THE Immigration Department arrested 2, 013 illegal immigrants in 2013, Home Affairs Permanent Secretary Peter Mwaba has disclosed. In the same year, the Immigration Department prosecuted 810, removed 2,754 and deported 392...

By JULIUS PHIRI- THE Anti-Voter Apathy Project (AVAP) in Eastern Province has commended the Patriotic Front (PF) Government for showing political will in the fight against corruption. AVAP Provincial Coordinator Maumba Ngoma said in Chipata...