By JAMES KUNDA – VICE-PRESIDENT W.K Mutale-Nalumango says the Government has been implementing various empowerment and skills training programmes aimed at creating gainful employment and alleviating poverty among the youth.Ms Mutale-Nalumango said this was to...

By MAPULANGA LIBINGA – FIVE armed bandits raided a lodge on the Lusaka- Ndola Road and siphoned about 1,000 litres of fuel from several trucks owned by foreign drivers who had lodged there.One truck driver...

By CHUSA SICHONE – IN an extreme act of divorce rage after a court ordered a couple to sell all property and share the proceeds, a 53-year-old former Zesco employee set ablaze his motor vehicle,...

By CHUSA SICHONE – THE Zambia Defence Forces (ZDF) has with immediate effect embarked on a national irrigation exercise to cushion the eff ects of the drought.Defence Minister Ambrose Lufuma announced the responsibilities given to...

By JAMES KUNDA – FINANCE and National Planning Minister Situmbeko Musokotwane has directed provinces and sector spending agencies to prepare realigned budgets as the country braces for a national emergency triggered by drought.Dr Musokotwane said...

By JAMES KUNDA – SIX million Zambians require relief food support in light of a debilitating drought which has hit parts of the southernAfrican region.And Government has so far released 13,419.5 tonnes of relief white...

CHUSA SICHONE and SHARON KALIMBULA – PRESIDENT Hakainde Hichilema has prodded the Zambia Police Service (ZPS) to shrug off the “most corrupt” tag which the security wing has long been associated with.In message to security...

By JOSEPH BANDA – THE Government is embarking on a rigorous nationwide underground water harnessing exercise and mass crop irrigation drive, President Hakainde Hichilema has said.The President announced the measures on his Facebook page on...

By JOSEPH BANDA – THE African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) has given Zambia US$1.6 billion towards development financing to strengthen the country’s food security.This was announced when Afreximbank president Benedict Oramah led a delegation to call...

By GEORGE SINKALA and JAMES KUNDA – SCHOOLS have been directed to ensure cleanliness to prevent cholera or risk being closed, Health Minister Sylvia Masebo has said. “Zambia is no longer fighting with many cases...