By PASSY HAACHIZO and SYLVIA MWEETWA – HOME Affairs Minister Davies Mwila has announced that Mukobeko Maximum Prison in Kabwe will receive 246 out of the 1,000 housing units allocated to the Zambia Correctional Services....

By JULIUS PHIRI and MILDRED KATONGO – THE MMD in Eastern Province has charged that it will not reverse its decision to back President Edgar Lungu in the forthcoming general elections. MMD provincial spokesperson Zephaniah...

By KENNEDY MUPESENI – COPPERBELT Minister Mwenya Musenge has denied any involvement in mealie-meal smuggling and  has accused his political adversaries of plotting his fall by implicating him in the scandal. On Wednesday this week,...

By JULIUS PHIRI and SYLVESTER MWALE – THE Chipata High Court  has sentenced a Lusaka resident to hang until pronounced dead for being involved in a number of aggravated robberies in Eastern Province. Before Judge...

By JAJAH COULIBALY – in Namwala CONSTRUCTION of the Monze-Niko Road in Southern Province has advanced with 37 kilometres tarred so far. Namwala District Commissioner Mary Sakala said the tarring of the 74-kilometre stretch was...

By CHUSA SICHONE – THE Rwandan community in Zambia has described as unZambian the recent attacks and looting of shops belonging to foreigners in protest against ritual killings. Rwandan community leader, Frodouald Ntezimana said his...

By CHUSA SICHONE – LOCAL Government and Housing Minister Stephen Kampyongo is expected to meet Lusaka, Chibombo, Chongwe, Kafue and Shibuyunji councils to iron out their differences over establishment of joint cemeteries. The meeting is...

By JOSEPHINE SIKUTE – GOVERNMENT has appealed for concerted efforts from members of the public in the fight against smuggling of mealie-meal to neighbouring countries. Copperbelt Permanent Secretary Howard Sikwela said Government under the leadership...

By CHUSA SICHONE – THE MMD says the endorsement of President Edgar Lungu by its members in Eastern Province and Rufunsa District ahead of the general elections in August this year, is not an indication...

By DAVID KANDUZA – AN anthropologist on the Copperbelt has observed that the recent spate of gruesome murders which are taking place in Lusaka are as a result of worldwide demand of organs for transplant....