By YVONNE CHATE – THE Supreme Court has quashed a 20-year jail sentence and imposed a 40-year sentence on a man of Lusaka who defiled a nine-year-old girl. Morris Phiri, 28, of Lilanda Township was...

By MUNTANGA MALINDI and KENNEDY MUPESENI – THE first batch of the 400 solar-powered hammermills, which will be placed in four provinces in the country by 2016, have arrived in the country from China. This...

By REBECCA MUSHOTA – PHASE two of the mobile National Registration Card (NRC) issuance exercise, which will cover Eastern, Lusaka, Southern and Western provinces, will be launched tomorrow. Home Affairs Permanent Secretary Mulenga Chileshe confirmed...

By REBECCA MUSHOTA and CHRISTINE MWAABA – UNIVERSITY of Zambia (UNZA) students yesterday blocked part of the Great East Road with burning tyres and pelted stones in protest against the withholding of their results by...

By MUNTANGA MALINDI – THE Ministry of Chiefs and Traditional affairs has launched a three year strategic plan which is aimed at strengthening the chieftaincy and enhance development in various chiefdoms across the country. Chiefs...

By EMMANUEL ZIMBA – THE Road Development Agency (RDA) has donated laboratory equipment and a motor vehicle worth K5.2 million to the school of engineering at the University of Zambia (UNZA). The equipment is meant...

By SYLVESTER MWALE – POLICE in Kasama have recorded a warn-and-caution statement from opposition UPND vice president for administration Geoffrey Bwalya Mwamba in connection with reports that he was allegedly held an illegal meeting in...

By JAMES KUNDA – FORTY-SIX cartons of cigarettes valued at K146 million have been destroyed at Chirundu one stop border post by the Zambia Revenue Authority (ZRA). ZRA corporate communications manager Mumbuna Kufekisa, who announced...

By CATHERINE NYIRENDA – CLEARING agents in the country’s border posts yesterday protested against plans by the Government to introduce a system that aims at clearing goods at the port of entry. The Government intends...

THE Kazungula Self-Help Project, commonly known as Kazungula Rest Stop Lodge, has been burned to ashes and property worth more than KI.7 million destroyed in the inferno. The incident, that occurred on Monday afternoon as...