K2m to get kids off streets
CHOMBA MUSIKA, Parliament GOVERNMENT has allocated close to K2 million in next year’s budget for the rehabilitation and reintegration of street children. Minister of Youth, Sport and Child Development...
View ArticleGovernment employs 3,000 teachers
NANCY SIAME, Lusaka THE Ministry of General Education has completed the 2017 teacher recruitment exercise deploying a total of 3,148 teachers to various stations country wide, with Luapula Province...
View ArticleVisit to Robben Island unveiled
TRAVELLOGUE with VIOLET MENGO, Lusaka NELSON Mandela in his autobiography, ‘Long Walk to Freedom,’ wrote that “Journeying to Robben Island was like going to another country. Its isolation made it not...
View ArticleImplementing sale of alchohol directive slow – NGO
CHAMBO NG’UNI, Kabwe SOUTHERN Africa Alcohol Policy Alliance (SAAPA) Zambia is disappointed with the slow pace in implementing President Lungu’s directive to ensure effective management of the...
View ArticleGovt ponders TAZARA concession
MWILA NTAMBI, Kitwe MINISTER of Transport and Communications Brian Mushimba says Government is considering signing a concession agreement with the Chinese for purposes of revamping the operations of...
View ArticleMighty, Nkana in battle of contrasting fortunes
MATHEWS KABAMBA, Kitwe WITH title contenders Zesco United, Zanaco and Green Buffaloes in action tomorrow, focus today will be on Mopani Copper Mines-sponsored sides Mufulira Wanderers and Nkana who...
View ArticleWoman ordered to refund dowry
MWILA NTAMBI, Kitwe THE Buchi Local Court has ordered a woman to pay her former fiancé K500 as part of the bride price that he paid to her family when he wanted to marry her. Paul Misateka had dragged...
View ArticleMIGHTY ON BRINK
MATHEWS KABAMBA, Shinde Stadium, Mufulira WANDERERS 1 NKANA 2 MUFULIRA Wanderers yesterday slipped through the relegation trapdoors and were left with the unenviable task of beating Zesco United on the...
View ArticleWhere in Chilanga is Mtendere?
KELVIN MBEWE, Chilanga LEGEND has it that Chilanga, now a district, used to have a township called Mtendere. But few residents of Chilanga or even the council can pointedly say where this township was...
View ArticleToo much Zee World, hubby laments
MELODY MUPETA, Kitwe A KITWE husband has lamented before the Kamfinsa Local Court how his wife’s negligence cost the life of their four-year-old child who was burnt to death in an inferno when their...
View ArticleZesco eye coronation at Eagles
STEPHEN PHIRI, Lusaka ZESCO United will be crowned 2017 Super Division champions today if they beat Green Eagles and Zanaco and Green Buffaloes lose their round 37 matches. Should Zesco win, they will...
View ArticleSickle cell crisis that led Mwenda Phiri to initiative
DOREEN NAWA, Lusaka NOW aged 15, Mwenda Phiri was diagnosed with sickle cell anemia disease at nine months. But October 18 last month is a day to remember for Mwenda and his family. This is not because...
View ArticleMinisters check on Soweto sanitation
PRISCILLA CHIPULU, Lusaka PRESIDENT Lungu has sent a team of ministers from the taskforce on cholera to escalate the response to the outbreak of the diarrhoeal disease in Lusaka. The taskforce, which...
View ArticleDeath on the river: Another buffalo tragedy
JACK ZIMBA, Itezhi Tezhi WHEN we arrived at the scene, we were greeted by the smell of rotting hides and bones scattered on the river bank and in the shallow water. “This is where it happened,” Elliot...
View ArticleMother testifies how father defiled dumb daughter
MWILA NTAMBI, Kitwe THE mother of a 13-year-old dumb daughter who is alleged to have been defiled by her 36-year-old father, testified last week before the Kitwe Magistrate’s Court how a medical doctor...
View ArticleGET TITHE RECEIPTS
KAPALA CHISUNKA, Lusaka THE Zambia Revenue Authority (ZRA) says all those wishing to get a tax refund from the tithe that they give to their churches should first ensure that they get receipts from...
View ArticleZambians should manage dialogue
THE dialogue meant to end the political stand-off between the ruling Patriotic Front and the United Party for National Development ahead of the 2021 general elections should be based on a fair and...
View ArticleZRA donates to physically challenged in Mwense
KALONDE NYATI, Mwense THE Zambia Revenue Authority (ZRA) has donated assorted items worth K120, 000 to pupils living with physical and mental disabilities at Mambilima special school in Mwense. ZRA...
View ArticleSeedco plans to develop Luano farm
NANCY MWAPE, Monze SEEDCO plans to invest over US$5 million to develop the recently acquired farm in Luano district, Central Province, to scale up production and take advantage of the fast-growing...
View ArticleWhy Lusaka Water is getting rid of paper bills
PATSON PHIRI ZAMBIA is one country that has fast trotted out of the dark in terms of access to information communication technology (ICT), which is now a handy tool for efficient management and...
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