By SYLVESTER MWALE – PRESIDENT Edgar Lungu has expressed sadness at the death of more than 200 people in an explosion at a petrol station in Ghana. President Lungu, however, noted that Zambia could draw...

By KASONDE KASONDE AND BRIAN HATYOKA – A TEENAGE girl in Kapiri Mposhi has been brutally murdered in yet another chilling sequel of suspected random ritualistic killings happening around the country. The body of the...

By JAMES KUNDA and KASONDE KASONDE – TWO students of Mulungushi University in Kabwe have been arrested by the Drug Enforcement Commission (DEC) for trafficking in cannabis. Ndambo Chinda, 22, and Missael Mwanza, 23, were...

By SYLVESTER MWALE – EDUCATION Minister Michael Kaingu has warned that striking lecturers at the University of Zambia risk being fired if they do not resume work. Dr Kaingu said the lecturers should not hold...

By JAMES KUNDA – THE Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has commenced investigations into reports of alleged mismanagement of Zambia Railways Limited (ZRL). ACC acting public relations manager Dorothy Mwanza said in response to a Press query...

By SYLVESTER MWALE – MINERAL royalties will be cut further to six per cent from the nine per cent which was to take effect on July 1, this year, Mines Minister Christopher Yaluma has said....

By MAIMBOLWA MULIKELELA – EXPORT-Import Bank of China (Exim bank) has released an initial payment of US$108 million for the construction of the Kenneth Kaunda International Airport (KKIA) in Lusaka, which is expected to be...

By CATHERINE NYIRENDA – POLITICAL parties and the civil society organisations have welcomed the decision by Cabinet to approve the introduction of the Referendum (Amendment) Bill of 2015 in Parliament to amend the Referendum Act...

By DELPHINE ZULU AND NAKUBIANA SHABONGO – MUSICIAN Chama Fumba, alias Pilato, has been arrested for conduct likely to cause the breach of peace. Mr Fumba was by press time still detained at Lusaka Central...

By CLEVER ZULU – A GUN  battle between Police and bandits rocked Lusaka’s Twin Palm shopping mall yesterday leaving two dead and two food outlet workers nursing gunshot wounds. Two robbers were gunned down while...