By JAMES KUNDA – PRESIDENT Edgar Lungu has bemoaned the poor performance of the public service despite Government consistently improving the working conditions for staff. The Head of State has since implored staff in the...

By CHILA NAMAIKO – FOURTEEN families displaced by a sinking surface at Nkandabwe Collum Coal Mine in Sinazongwe District of Southern Province yesterday received relief food from the Disaster Management and Mitigation Unit (DMMU). The...

By JAMES KUNDA – THE Patriotic Front (PF) will endeavour to field as many women as possible to contest Parliamentary and ward positions in this year’s tripartite elections, President Edgar Lungu has said. Mr Lungu...

By REBECCA MUSHOTA BARELY a year after he promised Zambians a new Constitution at the National Heroes Stadium during his inauguration, President Edgar Lungu yesterday assented to the amended Constitution at the same venue. The...

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...