By PERPETUAL SICHIKWENKWE – DIRECTOR of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Mutembo Nchito has asked the Lusaka magistrates’ court not to entertain the manoeuvres by former Republican president Rupiah Banda to delay his oil deal case by...

By SYLVESTER MWALE IN KAOMA – BALLOT papers for the Mangango by-election have arrived in Kaoma and are being distributed to polling centres ahead of the polls on Tuesday next week. The voting materials were...

By XAVIER  MANCHISHI – FIRST Lady Dr Christine Kaseba has said it is frightening that on average 17,600 young Zambians drop out of school every year due mainly to pregnancies. The First Lady said from...

By REBECCA MUSHOTA and DELPHINE ZULU – MORE than 600 foreigners, mainly Somalis suspected to be prohibited immigrants, were in the early hours of yesterday rounded up by a combined team of officers from the...

By CATHERINE  NYIRENDA – ZAMBIA’S Human Development Index (HDI) on the global level has this year significantly improved, moving 26 points upwards, according to the latest United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) HDI report. Zambia is...

By CHUSA SICHONE –   THE Food Reserve Agency (FRA) is close to reaching the targeted 500,000 tonnes of maize it is expected to buy during this marketing season.   The Agency has so far...

By CATHERINE NYIRENDA – VICE-PRESIDENT Guy Scott has said Zambia has failed to fully utilise funds provided by the European Union (EU) to support climate change programmes. Dr Scott attributed the lapse to a lack...

By KAIKO NAMUSA – THE  Government has embarked on a nation-wide Ebola preparedness and awareness campaigns, Disaster Management and Mitigation Unit (DMMU) national coordinator, Patrick Kangwa has said. Mr Kangwa said in a statement in...

By PERPETUAL SICHIKWENKWE – LOSING Patriotic Front (PF) candidate in the 2011 Zambezi West parliamentary election, Christabel Ngimbu, has asked the Lusaka High Court to halt the September 11, 2014 by-elections in Zambezi West. This...

By PERPETUAL SICHIKWENKWE – A FIFTY THREE-YEAR-OLD headman from Shamasamu Village in Chief Mungule’s area has been sentenced to life imprisonment by the Lusaka High Court for beating his grandson to death. Judge Judy Mulongoti...