Business side of Kuomboka ceremony
BOYD PHIRI, Mongu NANCY Akabati, a resident of Mongu, is not watching traditional performances taking place at the main arena some metres away.Not even the bewitching sound of drums reverberating...
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MULWANDA LUPIYA, Ndola AFTER returning to the Zesco United dugout, George Lwandamina will start his new tenure as coach with a tie in a competition that somewhat enhanced his credentials on the...
View ArticleAcid kills politician
CHRISTINE CHIHAME, Mansa and ELIZABETH CHATUVELA, Mongu A PATRIOTIC Front councillor in Mwense has committed suicide by allegedly taking battery acid.Chachacha ward councillor Agrippa Mwandu took his...
View Article‘Mwamona director tried to change NRC Number’
PRISCILLA CHIPULU, Lusaka A WITNESS yesterday testified how Mwamona Engineering and Technical Services Limited filed new documents at Patents and Companies Registration Agency (PACRA) to change the...
View ArticleIG puts foot down
CATHERINE MUMBA, Chilanga POLICE have deployed 800 officers in Chilanga constituency ahead of the June 5 parliamentary by-election.And Inspector-General of Police Kakoma Kanganja has urged the officers...
View ArticleSuper models take in Chaminuka
FRANCIS LUNGU, Lusaka THE Global Super Model contestants who were in the country for the Friday pageant took some time off the catwalk to see what Chaminuka Nature Reserve is all about.The models, who...
View ArticleBuffaloes win, Zanaco, Power share points
SYLVESTER CHISHIMBA, Edwin Imboela Stadium, Lusaka BUFFALOES 1 ASSEMBLY 0 GREEN Buffaloes yesterday closed the gap with leaders Zesco United to a point after edging National Assembly in a Super...
View ArticleZRA loses K240 million at Kazungula
KELVIN CHONGO, Lusaka MINISTER of Works and Supply Felix Mutati says Zambia Revenue Authority (ZRA) lost over K240 million in the seven days the Zambezi drifter pontoon broke down at Kazungula crossing...
View ArticleMiss Earth Zambia makes top 15
ZIO MWALE, Lusaka MISS Earth Zambia Ketty Kabaso, who represented the country at the Miss Eco International in Egypt, topped the Miss Eco Talent mini competition although the effort was not enough for...
View ArticleLuangwa: Backwater place coming back to life
JACK ZIMBA, Luangwa AND so, here I was quite literally standing on the banks of two rivers – the Zambezi and Luangwa – and looking at three countries – Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Zambia – all in one...
View ArticleWife ordered to pay back hubby K10,000
CHRISTINE CHIHAME, Mansa THE Mansa local court has reprimanded and ordered a woman of Mansa to pay her husband of 20 years K10,000 for abandoning him after he educated her from Grade Nine up to...
View ArticleSwallows hold Zesco
MULWANDA LUPIYA and MATHEWS KABAMBA, Levy Mwanawasa Stadium, Ndola ZESCO 1 SWALLOWS 1 WASTEFUL Zesco United were yesterday punished as Mbabane Swallows snatched a point in a CAF Champions League group...
View Article2 UPND leaders reject Charmaine
CHOMBA MUSIKA, Lusaka TWO United Party for National Development (UPND) councillors have vowed not to campaign for Charmaine Musonda, their party’s candidate in the Chilanga parliamentary by-election on...
View ArticleWife killed over nshima
CHAMBO NG’UNI and KELVIN MBEWE, Kabwe A SEVENTY-EIGHT-YEAR-OLD man of Luano district has allegedly battered his 65-year-old wife to death over nshima.The dead woman, identified as Esther Phiri,...
View ArticleUPND candidate attacks uncle
KELVIN CHONGO, Lusaka POLICE have summoned the United Party for National Development (UPND) candidate in the Chilanga Constituency by-election, Charmaine Musonda, for allegedly attacking Webster...
View ArticleDiggers close in on leaders Nkwazi
MULWANDA LUPIYA, Ndola DIGGERS 24 LUSAKA 3 ‘MEN at Work’ Diggers on Saturday kept alive their chances of winning the National Rugby League (NRL) title after trouncing ‘Powerhouse’ Lusaka in a Week Nine...
View ArticleLusaka Chemist should secure premises
Dear editor, THIEVES are taking advantage of the usually crowded Lusaka Chemist on Freedom Way to steal from unsuspecting customers.During lunch hour, a lot of people flock to Lusaka Chemist to buy...
View ArticleIntermarriages keep tribalism in check
STEVEN MVULA, Lusaka FORMER Chief Justice Lombe Chibesakunda (right) says the placement of young unmarried civil servants in other provinces by founding President Kenneth Kaunda encouraged...
View Article‘Zesco not worried by slow take-off’
MULWANDA LUPIYA and MATHEWS KABAMBA, Ndola DEFENDER David Odhiambo says Zesco United are not worried that they started the CAF Champions League group stage campaign with a 1-1 draw with Mbabane...
View ArticleSlum upgrading: Kanyama starting point
FRANCIS LUNGU, Lusaka THE unplanned settlements dotted around cities like Lusaka have made it difficult for the central government and municipalities to provide services such as clean drinking water,...
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