By BEN PHIRI – GOVERNMENT has prodded the Zambia Forest and Forestry Corporation (ZAFFICO) to help turn around the country’s economic prospects by investing in more timber plantations. Finance Minister Alexander Chikwanda said ZAFFICO had been one of...

By PERPETUAL SICHIKWENKWE – FORMER Zambia Air Force (ZAF) commander Andrew Sakala yesterday told the Lusaka magistrate’s court that he distributed the K500,000 that he is alleged to have stolen to various people, including his...

POLICE in Luangwa have arrested five youths suspected of abducting a 70-year-old man. A police source in Luangwa confirmed yesterday that police were holding five youths, among them a Mozambican, for abducting 70-year-old Alick Daka...

By FLAVIOR CHISHALA – THE Ministry of Education, Science, Vocational Training and Early Education has embarked on a nationwide sensitisation campaign on the revised curriculum dubbed ‘Let us read Zambia’. The campaign is meant to...

By KASONDE KASONDE – THE Zambia Small-Scale Farmers Network Organisation (ZSSFN) has expressed concern at what it has described as acrimony being perpetrated by some civil society organisations (CSOs), Church bodies and opposition political parties...

By MAIMBOLWA MULIKELELA – FORMER Commerce, Trade and Industry Minister Felix Mutati has been selected to join the Eminent Persons Group of the ‘Atlantic Basin Initiative’ launched by SAIS-Johns Hopkins University. Mr Mutati has also...

By NAKUBIANA SHABONGO – SWEDEN has praised the rural electrification programme and is confident that it will help improve education and health services for the rural population. Swedish Ambassador to Zambia Lena Nordstrom said the...

By BRIAN HATYOKA – SOME residents of Livingstone have criticised Southern Water and Sewerage Company (SWASCO) for increasing water tariffs despite the alleged poor services they are subjected to. But SWASCO regional manager Goodson Masheka...

By JULIUS PHIRI – THE army worms which invaded crop fields in some districts in Eastern Province have been contained. About 502 hectares of land were affected by the army worms from December 26, 2013...

By NORMA SIAME – A VILLAGER from Isoka has been sentenced to 18 years in prison for defiling his 13-year-old sister-in-law. Kasama High Court Judge Petronella Ngulube, in sentencing Davie Sichalwe, said although he was...