By CHARITY MOONGA – PRESIDENT Edgar Lungu has directed the Zambia Revenue Authority (ZRA) Commissioner-General Berlin Msiska to expedite dialogue with mine owners and promptly resolve the impasse over the new mining tax regime. Mr...

By CHILA NAMAIKO – A WOMAN of Chikankanta is battling for her life in Mazabuka General Hospital after being hacked with an axe by her husband who later committed suicide. Yvonne Mubiana, 21, of Namembo...

By CHARITY MOONGA  – PRESIDENT Edgar Lungu has appointed Joseph Katema as Chiefs and Traditional Affairs Minister. Dr Katema was Information and Broadcasting Services Minister in the previous Cabinet. The President has reverted Bwalya Ng’andu...

By CHARITY MOONGA – FIRST Republican president Kenneth Kaunda has been admitted to Lusaka Trust Hospital. President Edgar Lungu visited Dr Kaunda at the hospital yesterday. Dr Kaunda’s special assistant Sunday Musonda said in an...

By PERPETUAL SICHIKWENKWE and SAM PHIRI – FIVE MMD Members of Parliament (MPs) have dragged their party to court, seeking an injunction to restrain national secretary, Mwansa Mbulakulima from suspending or expelling them from the...

By ANTHONY MULOWA  in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia – THE United States Government has hailed Zambia’s January 20 presidential election as a model of democracy in Africa and an affirmation of the country’s entrenched culture of...

By SARAH T MWANZA – THE Ministry of Health has said the recently re-appointed nurses will retain all their entitlements and terminal benefits for the period they worked before they were fired in 2013. Spokesperson...

By CHILA NAMAIKO – FORMER Southern Province Minister Daniel Munkombwe has said he will not attend any disciplinary hearing over his matter because he is no longer a member of the ruling Patriotic Front (PF)....

By SYLVIA MWEETWA and CHILA NAMAIKO – A 105-YEAR-OLD woman has died after she was allegedly raped by her 29-year-old grandson in Chisamba. The incident happened after the young man allegedly got aroused after taking...

By CHUSA SICHONE – ZAMTEL has pumped in K250,000 towards the hosting of the Nc’wala traditional ceremony of the Ngoni people this monthend. N’cwala organising committee chairperson Noel Nkhoma said at the Ngoni cultural night...