By FLAVIOR CHISHALA – GENDER and Child Development Minister Nkandu Luo has urged young women in the country to partner with each other in businesses and boost the country’s economy. Professor Luo said poverty always...

By KASONDE KASONDE – THE Government has released more than K49,000 for the rehabilitation of Chimanimani Youth Centre in Kabwe’s Bwacha Constituency in order to offer youth skills training. Education Deputy Minister Sydney Mushanga, who...

By MILDRED KATONGO and MOFFAT CHAZINGWA – TWO people have been beaten to death in separate incidents in Chambishi and Mufulira on the Copperbelt. In Mufulira, Kelvin Simwaka, aged 29, was beaten and left unconscious...

By JULIUS PHIRI   – FIRST Lady Esther Lungu has arrived in the United States of America for a series of high-level meetings in Dallas, Texas and New York. Ms Lungu will participate in the meetings...

By SYLVIA MWEETWA  – THE Kabwe magistrates’ court has committed 92 Somalians to the High Court for sentencing after they pleaded guilty to the offence of consenting to being smuggled into Zambia. Another court discharged eight Somali juvenile offenders who...

By DELPHINE ZULU – THE African Road Maintenance Funds Association (ARMFA) has called for measures to come up with funding options aimed at bridging the financial gaps in road maintenance, construction and rehabilitation. ARMFA chairperson...

By MILDRED KATONGO – THE Engineering Institute of Zambia (EIZ) has said that the 591 engineering companies operating without valid practicing licences countrywide risks being de-registered. EIZ registrar Henry Mwale said the firms were contravening...

By SAM PHIRI – KAGEM Mine has set aside US$345,000 for student scholarships to study mining at the University of Zambia (UNZA) and the Copperbelt University (CBU). Education Minister Michael Kaingu, Mines Minister Christopher Yaluma...

By CHUSA SICHONE – THE Ministry of Health has assured reinstated nurses who are not yet on the payroll that the matter will soon be resolved. The nurses participated in the 2013 illegal strike, but...

BY YVONNE CHATE – GOVERNMENT has encouraged the United Church of Zambia (UCZ) to uphold its role of preaching peace and promoting unity in the country. Copperbelt Permanent Secretary Howard Sikwela said the church should...