Brandina looks to mentoring
NDANGWAH MWITTAH, Livingstone MODEL Brandina Lubili, who has the experience of winning some international pageants, says she is looking at using her knowhow to mentor up-and-coming models. Brandina,...
View ArticleChina man finds his second home
BRIAN MALAMA, Lusaka IN 1991, he received a prestigious recognition from the Chinese government for his outstanding and exemplary performance. Aged 40 then, Ma Fukang, a mechanical engineer, did not...
View ArticleHappy birthday Augustine
ROBINSON KUNDA, Marrakech, Morocco THERE could not have been a better birthday celebration for midfielder Augustine Mulenga than scoring a bizarre brace to help Zambia qualify for the African Nations...
View ArticleCholera on retreat, but don’t relax, says Chilufya
PRISCILLA MWILA, Lusaka GOVERNMENT has relaxed restrictions in non-cholera epicentres following continued reduction in the number of new cholera cases countrywide. Minister of Health Chitalu Chilufya...
View ArticlePublic schools outsmart all
CATHERINE MUMBA and MOSCO CHINYANTA, Lusaka GOVERNMENT national technical schools outperformed private and grant-aided schools in last year’s Grade 12 examinations with Northern Province scoring the...
View ArticleZambia made me – Mnangagwa
CHOMBA MUSIKA and MWAPE MWENYA, Lusaka ZIMBABWEAN President Emmerson Mnangagwa says he is what he is today because of Zambia. The former University of Zambia law student said this in a message he wrote...
View ArticleCholera: A tale from the township
DOREEN NAWA, Lusaka IT HAS been a difficult two weeks for Martha Phiri, 42, who is a resident of Msanida area in Lusaka’s George township, the newest cholera epicentre in town. Mrs Phiri, a widow, lost...
View ArticleMoney makes hubby disappear
MELODY MUPETA, Kitwe A THIRTY-YEAR-OLD woman of Kitwe’s Kwacha township has lamented before the Bulangililo Local Court how her husband deserts their matrimonial home whenever he finds a job and only...
View Article‘Ama levels’ affect marriage
CHRISTINE CHIHAME, Mansa A WOMAN of Surburbs area in Mansa has narrated before the Mansa Local Court how her husband wants to end their marriage of eight years because she is now a diploma holder,...
View ArticleWife unable to wait for jailed hubby
CHRISTINE CHIHAME, Mansa AN INMATE serving a jail term of 19 years for manslaughter has been sued for divorce by his wife of 20 years who is not ready to wait for him to be released from jail. Florence...
View ArticlePresident Lungu advises PF youths to focus on work
ESTHER MSETEKA, Mbala PRESIDENT Edgar Lungu has urged Zambians not to be swayed by emerging political parties whose agenda is to destabilise operations of Government. President Lungu observed that...
View ArticleBoy, 8, shoots brother, 4
KAPALA CHISUNKA, DOREEN NAWA, Lusaka AN EIGHT-YEAR-OLD boy of Mafinga district has accidently shot dead his younger brother, aged four, using their father’s illegally-owned homemade muzzle loader gun....
View ArticleCoptic Church: Keeping traditions of Christianity
JACK ZIMBA, Lusaka “I LOVE serving God, but I didn’t imagine myself being a priest, I didn’t imagine myself being away from home,” says Father Fam Abraham. He is a priest in the Coptic Orthodox Church...
View ArticleKamwala trading centre re-opens with new vows
KAPALA CHISUNKA, GLADYS NYIRENDA, Lusaka WHEN local authorities opted to close down Kamwala trading centre, many traders as well as shop owners at the shopping complex were not happy at the decision....
View ArticleVictoria Mumba: First female CEO at ZIBFS
SUNDYA PROFILE with CHRISTINE CHISHA, Lusaka WHEN she was in primary school, her father told her that she was university material who would serve the nation at a higher level, the words still ring in...
View ArticleChiteme, Mutati tour North
CHRISTINE CHISHA, Lusaka MINISTER of Development Planning Alexander Chiteme and Minister of Finance Felix Mutati have embarked on a joint project monitoring programme and 2018 budget sensitisation in...
View Article‘Corporate tax too high’
NANCY MWAPE, NOMSA NKANA, Lusaka ZAMBIA Association of Manufacturers (ZAM) says the high corporate tax currently at 35 percent makes the country’s products uncompetitive and limiting the ability to...
View ArticleZRA exceeds Mpulungu target
ESTHER MSETEKA, Mpulungu THE Zambia Revenue Authority (ZRA) has exceeded the 2017 operational target for exports into the Great Lakes Region through Mpulungu harbour by K558 million. This is as a...
View ArticleK4.4m cassava plant to create 120 jobs
KALONDE NYATI, Lusaka A K4.4 million cassava value addition plant to be commissioned in Kalumbila this quarter of the year is expected to accelerate the value chain of the crop. Premiercon Starch,...
View ArticleMan shoots ex-wife, blows self
HENRY SINYANGWE, Kasama A LOCAL court’s decision to dissolve a marriage has left seven children destitute after their 45-year-old father allegedly shot and killed his wife and later turned the trigger...
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