PIA grants three new licences
NALISHEBO NAMAIKO, Lusaka THE Pensions and Insurance Authority (PIA) has granted licences to three new pension schemes and 295 insurance players to execute insurance business this year. The new pension...
View ArticleSiwale wants court to declare stadium ban null, void
ROBINSON KUNDA, Lusaka EXPELLED Football Association of Zambia (FAZ) executive committee member Blackwell Siwale has filed an injunction restraining the organisation from enforcing the ban to stop him...
View ArticleSiamese twins: Mum puts trust in God
ZIO MWALE, Lusaka WHEN Precious Malambo of Mulungushi Agro area arrived at Kabwe’s Libowa Clinic for antenatal check-up on December 14, 2018, she did not know she was expecting twins. But that was not...
View ArticleKachanana comes clean on addictions
ZIO MWALE, Lusaka AFTER a long period out of the public eye, singer Kachanana came out on New Year to confess that she was now a born-again Christian. Those that had followed her career, including her...
View Article€4 million energy project extended
TRYNESS TEMBO, Lusaka THE €4 million Energy for Agriculture (E4A) project, which came to an end last December, has been extended for nine months to help develop the bio-gas market and increase the...
View ArticleBauleni: Township occupied by retirees
NKOLE NKOLE, Lusaka WHEN I meet Dingelizwe Saulosi Chipeta, he is still in his brown house robe having his breakfast in the middle of the morning. On the dining table is jam, peanut butter and some...
View ArticleUndecided Luchanga returns to Power
ROBINSON KUNDA, Lusaka THE puzzle surrounding the club striker Conlyde Luchanga wants to play for this season has become more complicated with the 21-year-old returning to Power Dynamos. He went absent...
View ArticlePower SX drink production pends
KALONDE NYATI, Lusaka PRODUCTION of Natural Power SX energy drink will only resume after investigations are concluded and remedial actions are put in place to the satisfaction of relevant regulatory...
View Article‘Fake doctor collected medical form fees’
CHOMBA MUSIKA, Lusaka THE Lusaka Magistrate’s Court yesterday heard that an unemployed youth who was masquerading as a medical doctor at Chipata Level One Hospital was allegedly charging patients for...
View ArticleChitotela stays as minister
NANCY SIAME, Lusaka PRESIDENT Edgar Lungu will not fire Minister of Housing and Infrastructure Development Ronald Chitotela on mere allegations of corruption. Mr Lungu said he does not want to drop Mr...
View ArticleSave parents from extortion by schools
Dear editor, THERE is so much extortion of parents by schools going on. After paying PTA fees and tuition at the start of each year, parents are told to buy slashers, hoes, reams of paper (Typek the...
View ArticleCorrupt magistrate jailed 6 months
CAROLINE KALOMBE and JOSPHAT MAFUTA, Lusaka A LOCAL court magistrate and a messenger have been sentenced to six months imprisonment with hard labour for receiving K1,200 gratification to enter a...
View ArticleZesco Ghanaian striker speaks Kotoko downfall
MULWANDA LUPIYA, Ndola STRIKER Rahim Osumanu says Zesco United have the ammunition to beat Asante Kotoko in Wednesday’s Confederation Cup Group C match at Baba Yara Stadium in Kumasi. Osumanu said in...
View ArticleCity starts clean slate
ALEX NJOVU, Lusaka UNDOUBTEDLY, it has got an illustrious history. Granted it was in the pre-independence era, but still, City of Lusaka Football Club should be proud of having been able to attract a...
View ArticleKuni sings ‘I Will Rise’
NDANGWA MWITTAH, Livingstone and ZIO MWALE, Lusaka KUNI, whose reality television show Lusaka Hustle is hanging in the balance even though it still aired on Thursday night on Zambezi Magic, has gone...
View ArticleA childhood almost spoiled
STAFRANCE ZULU, Luanshya WHEN he started school in Ibenga, Mpongwe District on the Copperbelt, Sydney Chisenga was the shortest and smallest pupil. His small stature was the source of mockery with...
View ArticleWanderers tackle Lusaka Dynamos, eye top slot
MATHEWS KABAMBA, Kitwe ALTHOUGH they bounced back to the elite league last November, Mufulira Wanderers will fancy their chances over winless Lusaka Dynamos in today’s Super Division Stream A Week...
View Article3 miners die in underground fire
MWILA NTAMBI, Kitwe THREE miners have died at Mopani Copper Mines (MCM) in Kitwe after a loader caught fire underground at Mindola North Shaft. According to a statement issued yesterday by the MCM...
View ArticleDon’t just talk, ministers, MPs told
PRISCILLA MWILA, Lusaka SECRETARY to the Treasury Fredson Yamba has urged ministers to stop making pronouncements on projects which have not yet been budgeted for. Mr Yamba said the treasury cannot...
View ArticleStop fighting
CHIMWEMWE MWALE and ELIZABETH CHATUVELA, Sesheke PRESIDENT Edgar Lungu has called for an end to a fractious relationship between Patriotic Front (PF) and United Party for National Development (UPND)...
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