By ANDREW PHIRI – THE Livingstone Press Club has urged secondary school pupils to develop a good reading culture to improve their grammar and writing skills. Livingstone Press Club secretary general Edwin Mbulo said a...

By JULIUS PHIRI – EASTERN Province Patriotic Front (PF) chairperson Lameck Mangani has advised all members of the ruling party to adhere to the laid down procedure when dealing with grievances. Addressing party officials drawn...

By MAYA NTANDA  and CHATULA KAMPO – FIVE people have appeared in a Kitwe magistrate’s court in connection with the robbery at Standard Chartered Bank involving K1 million. Freddie Kaonga, 35, an Automated Teller Machine...

By KAIKO NAMUSA – FIRST Quantum Minerals (FQM) has awarded its workers new conditions of service for the period ending 2016, starting with a 10 per cent salary hike for this year. For 2015, the...

By JULIUS PHIRI  – THE Ministry of Health has handed over a site for construction of Chipata District Hospital to China Jiangxi Corporation. Eastern Province medical officer Kennedy Malama said that the contractor was selected...

By JULIUS PHIRI and REBECCA MUSHOTA – THE Immigration Department in Chipata District in Eastern Province has rounded 10 Malawians for trading without valid documents. Six of the 10 immigrants who were nabbed on Monday...

By REBECCA MUSHOTA – PRESIDENT Michael Sata has said the Patriotic Front (PF) has fulfilled its campaign promises to promote value addition to Zambia’s gemstones and other minerals. Mr Sata has also said the bold...

By REBECCA MUSHOTA GEMFIELDS, which owns 75 per cent of the Kagem Emerald Mine in partnership with the Zambian Government, has unveiled its second advertising campaign to promote Zambian emeralds. The campaign, called ‘Beauty by...

By CHUSA SICHONE  – ZAMBIA Railways Limited (ZRL) has yet again utilised part of the US$120 million it received from Government to engage a consortium of three companies for the installation of signalling and telecommunication...

By REBECCA MUSHOTA – ZAMBIA Postal Services (Zampost) has started compensating victims and families of victims of the Postbus accident which happened a year ago. The accident claimed 51 lives and left 21 passengers injured....