Gang raids school
NKOLE MULAMBIA and CHISHALA MUSONDA, Ndola PUPILS at Kabushi A Primary School in Ndola are absconding classes fearing a gang which has allegedly been harassing learners at the institution. Members of...
View ArticleBravo UTH docs on Richard operation
AT LONG last, the doctors have pulled out the last needles from three- year-old Richard Zulu’s body. The operation to remove the remaining needles which were mysteriously placed into the boy’s body...
View ArticleMichael proposed to Rita on Christmas day
How We Met With ANGELA MUCHINSHI Lusaka IT never occurred to Michael Chilufya that Rita Chirwa would be his wife the first time they met. Then they were in school at Mung’omba Primary School in...
View ArticleHunger looms in Chongwe
MIKE MUGALA, Lusaka HUNGER is looming in Chongwe district because most maize fields have withered due to heat and poor rainfall, District Commissioner Frazer Musonda has said. Mr Musonda said Chongwe...
View ArticleDrunk hubby walks naked in house
MIKE MUGALA, Lusaka A DRUNKEN fifty-three-year-old man of George Township is on the verge of losing his marriage for walking past their children without clothes after using the bathroom. Mary Daka, 42,...
View ArticleMeet Gilbert Mwale, proprietor of E-msika
Sunday Profile With MIKE MUGALA Lusaka GILBERT Mwale dreamt of being a manager, regardless the field, when he was young. Both his parents are farmers and this meant that the family spent most of their...
View ArticleMan sleeps with clothes to avoid wife
CHRISTINE CHIHAME, Mansa A HUSBAND of Mansa has allegedly resorted to sleeping with clothes on to prevent his wife from getting intimate with her even when he has made two of his concubines pregnant....
View Article‘Side chick’ offers to do laundry
MELODY MUPETA, Kitwe AFTER his wife allegedly stopped washing clothes for him, a husband of Kitwe ended up taking his dirty clothes to his ‘side chick’ who offered to do the laundry. Henry Nkhoma was...
View ArticleABU, State extol sports guru Sapi
ALEX NJOVU, Lusaka AFRICA Boxing Union (ABU) executive member Lunzo Zimba described Zambia Professional Boxing and Wrestling Board of Control (ZPBCB) chairman Nelson Sapi as an exceptional sports...
View ArticleGirl,14, needs K200,000 for kidney treatment
MIKE MUGALA, Lusaka A 42-YEAR-OLD man of Pamodzi township in Ndola is in need of K200,000 to send his 14-year-old niece to India for kidney failure treatment. William Mwanza says his niece, Precious,...
View ArticleFirst Lady to continue helping girls’ empowerment
KAPALA CHISUNKA, Lusaka THE Esther Lungu Foundation has pledged to continue collaborating with organisations that work to improve the livelihood of the girl-child in the country. First Lady Esther...
View ArticleSino-Zambia trade soars to $5 billion
KALONDE NYATI, Lusaka TRADE between Zambia and China has recorded a significant increase, hitting US$5 billion last year, Chinese Ambassador to Zambia Li Jie says. Mr Li said this is the first time...
View ArticleStop buying self-prescribed drugs – pharmacists
PRISCILLA MWILA, Lusaka PHARMACEUTICAL Society of Zambia (PSZ) has urged members of the public to stop buying medicine which is not stored at prescribed temperatures as they risk purchasing poisonous...
View ArticleFreedom fighters to be screened
NKOLE MULAMBIA, Ndola GOVERNMENT will start screening freedom fighters to determine the associations they should be affiliated to. And Vice-President Inonge Wina is expected to launch the Copperbelt...
View ArticleMan imprisoned over alcohol
CHALI MULENGA, Livingstone THE Livingstone Magistrate’s Court has sentenced a 27-year-old man of Kazungula to two years imprisonment for stabbing another man after a dispute over alcohol. This is in a...
View ArticleFrom Dar to Mulobezi by rail
JACK ZIMBA, Lusaka IT IS almost midnight, Friday February 17, and I join a horde of passengers at the Zambia Railways station in Kapiri Mposhi. The Michael Chilufya Sata Express is late, very late, and...
View ArticleExamining economics of tobacco
KELVIN KACHINGWE, Lusaka SINCE the establishment of the Lusaka South Multi-Facility Economic Zone (MFEZ) by the Government through the Zambia Development Agency (ZDA), there has been a steady flow of...
View ArticleLusaka residents invited to mortuary
CHOMBA MUSIKA, Lusaka LUSAKA residents whose loved ones have been missing for some time have been urged to check with the University Teaching Hospital’s (UTH) mortuary. There are 29 unclaimed bodies at...
View ArticleMaize export ban lifted
MONICA KAYOMBO, Lusaka GOVERNMENT has lifted the ban on mealie-meal exports after four months of the decision that had irked the Millers Association of Zambia (MAZ). In a statement yesterday, Minister...
View ArticleBuffaloes fans want coach Bwale’s dismissal
KELLY NJOMBO, National Heroes Stadium, Lusaka DYNAMOS 3 BUFFALOES 1 SEVERAL Green Buffaloes supporters yesterday demanded the removal of coach Charles Bwale following the team’s defeat to Lusaka...
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