By REBECCA MUSHOTA – GOVERNMENT will this year decentralise the issuance of licences for hospitality facilities, Tourism and Arts Minister Sylvia Masebo has said. Ms Masebo said at a meeting with the Hotel and Catering...

By REBECCA MUSHOTA – GOVERNMENT buildings need to be rehabilitated urgently in order to save on money which could be spent to construct new ones, Transport, Works, Supply and Communications Minister Yamfwa Mukanga has said....

By PERPETUAL SICHIKWENKWE – A FORMER diplomat, Friday Nkamba has been warned against interfering with witnesses in a matter in which he is charged with engaging girls in prostitution. Meanwhile, a 21-year-old woman yesterday testified...

By KASONDE KASONDE – THE go slow by lecturers at Mulungushi University in Kabwe yesterday entered day two forcing management to send back the distance education students who were in their second week of the...

By JULIUS PHIRI and HILDA MUSONDA – GOVERNMENT has terminated the K11 million contract awarded to Plinth Technical Works Limited of Lusaka for failure to carry out road works in Petauke District. Local Government and...

By ISAAC MUKANDO – MUFULIRA Municipal Council (MMC) in conjunction with Mulonga Water and Sewerage Company (MWSC) has closed more than 33 business houses for non adherence to health standards. The business houses which included...

By MOFFAT CHAZINGWA – THE Rural Electrification Authority (REA) has connected electricity to more than nine per cent of rural households countrywide, chief executive officer (CEO) Geoffrey Musonda has said. Mr Musonda said of the...

By CHILA NAMAIKO – CHIEF Mwanachingwala, of the Tonga speaking people in Mazabuka District, has suffered a stroke and is currently admitted to Nakambala Sugar Estate clinic. Southern Province Minister, Daniel Munkombwe on Thursday visited...

By PERPETUAL SICHIKWENKWE – LAWYERS representing former Zambia Railways Limited chief executive officer Clive Chirwa have ‘ditched’ him, prompting him to engage a lawyer representing his co-accused Regina Mwale. Chirwa’s lawyers from Simeza, Sangwa and...

 By CHATULA KAMPO –  THE Ndola High Court has found a 14-year-old girl who dumped her newly-born baby outside the fence of her house in Minsundu area in Ndola guilty of infanticide.  High Court Judge...