By CHUSA SICHONE-  THE National Restoration Party (NAREP) has devised strategies aimed at wooing the electorate to vote for its candidate in the February 25, 2014 parliamentary by-election in Katuba Constituency. The United National Independence...

By NORMA SIAME – GOVERNMENT has rejected a monetary donation made by suspended Patriotic Front (PF) Kasama Central Member of Parliament (MP) Geoffrey Mwamba towards the construction of a bus terminus in Kasama. Local Government...

By XAVIER MANCHISHI –  THE Drug Enforcement Commission (DEC) in Luapula Province has arrested four inmates at Nchelenge State Prison for trafficking in cannabis. DEC assistant public relations officer Chibu Mwansa Tembo confirmed the arrest...

By REBECCA MUSHOTA – THE Ministry of Energy says it will engage Dalbit Petroleum, the company contracted to bring fuel into Zambia, to see how best it could use local transporters. Permanent Secretary Charity Mwansa...

By SYLVIA MWEETWA – A MULUNGUSHI University lecturer in Kabwe has been fined K5,000 after he was convicted for killing a pedestrian or face a nine-month jail term in default. Kabwe High Court judge Elita...

KENNEDY MUPESENI – COMMERCE Trade and Industry Minister Emmanuel Chenda has said the US$2 million Sentinel Mine project which is being constructed by the First Quantum Minerals (FQM) is a catalyst for industrialisation. The minister,...

By KAIKO NAMUSA – PRESIDENT Michael Sata says Zambia Railways Limited (ZRL) has recorded growth in haulage capacity after undergoing major rehabilitation works from September last year. Government pumped US$120 million in the railway firm...

By JUDITH NAMUTOWE – ZAMBIA and the United Kingdom (UK) Government yesterday signed a new agreement for the avoidance of double taxation (DTA) with respect to taxes on income and capital. The agreement would see...

By CHUSA SICHONE
 – THE Law Association of Zambia (LAZ) has urged MMD Chisamba Member of Parliament Moses Muteteka to resign following his conviction and subsequent five-year sentence slapped on him for theft of a...

By MAYA NTANDA – RESIDENTS of Kitwe’s Riverside Township threw stones at firefighters after they failed to quench a fire that swept through a market destroying property worth thousands of Kwacha. Riverside market was gutted...