By FLAVIOR CHISHALA – PRESIDENT Edgar Lungu has banned casualisation of jobs and unjustified termination of contracts of employment. Labour and Social Security Minister Fackson Shamenda announced that President Lungu signed into law the amendment...

By KASONDE KASONDE – ZAMBIA yesterday commemorated 24 years of the country’s declaration as a Christian nation with fresh calls to renew the commitment. The celebration was held under the theme ‘Laying a further foundation...

By SYLVIA MWEETWA – Zambia Prisons Service Commissioner General Percy Chato’s family and residents of Luangwa Township in Kabwe yesterday woke up to a rude shock when they found three small coffins, one with a...

By PASSY HAACHIZO – IN the last 10 years, Faneless Ngoma, 64, has depended on an unroofed building in Kanyama Township in Lusaka to provide education to 231 children. The school, called Luntha Orphanage Community...

By FLAVIOR CHISHALA and HOPE BWALYA – LUSAKA District recorded more than 30 Christmas babies, with the University Teaching Hospital (UTH) standing at 27 as Levy Mwanawasa General Hospital had four. Among the UTH babies...

By PERPETUAL SICHIKWENKWE – PRESIDENT Edgar Lungu yesterday celebrated Christmas Day by visiting the sick at Mother Theresa of Missionaries of Charity hospice in Mtendere Township in Lusaka. Mr Lungu, who was in a jovial...

By JAMES KUNDA – PRESIDENT Edgar Lungu has assured chiefs countrywide that the proposed national land policy will not come into effect unless it upholds their aspirations. Mr Lungu said the proposed land policy, which...

By JAMES KUNDA – ZAMBIA is poised to be transformed into a regional health hub, where people can access all medical services for curable ailments, President Edgar Lungu has said. President Lungu has since implored...

By DAVID KANDUZA – FOURTEEN families in Kantatamwe Village in Chief Ndubeni’s area have been left homeless after torrential rain wreaked havoc resulting in the collapse of several houses and leaving the families stranded. Families...

By JAMES KUNDA in Kasama – PRESIDENT Edgar Lungu yesterday commissioned the more than US$153 million, 330 kilovolts (kv) Pensulo-Kasama transmission line in Kasama which will improve electricity supply to Luapula, Muchinga and Northern provinces....