Malnutrition, obesity signal faltering nutrition security
NANCY SIAME, Lusaka DESPITE government policies aimed at improving food and nutrition security, Zambia’s food and agriculture systems seem not to be providing adequate food security for all. Seasonal...
View ArticleMbesuma State Ranch raises K1.1 million from sale of animals
MWILA NTAMBI, Kitwe MBESUMA State Ranch in Chinsali district in Muchinga Province has raised K1.1 million from the sale of animals to livestock farmers in the area from December last year to date....
View Article$5 million Medical Stores bay commissioned
ARTHUR MWANSA, Lusaka MINISTER of Health Chitalu Chilufya has commissioned a modern US$5 million Medical Stores Limited (MSL) warehouse dispatch bay with a warn-ing to Ministry of Health and MSL...
View ArticleKopala magic channelled on Zambezi
STAFRANCE ZULU, Ndola ALTHOUGH local filmmakers continue bemoaning the lack of appreciation and support by local broadcasting houses, they still seem to be making strides on the international stage. In...
View ArticleLungu gets child marriage brief
MWAPE MWENYA, Lusaka PRESIDENT Lungu yesterday met African Union commissioner for social affairs Amira El Fadil and bemoaned the negative impact of child marriage on children whose qualitative lives...
View ArticleConsumer demand expected to grow
TRYNESS TEMBO, Lusaka THE business environment and consumer demand is expected to improve in the second quarter, due to the current favourable macroeconomic conditions prevailing in the country,...
View ArticleOne Love still at Diggers
MATHEWS KABAMBA, Kitwe ON a weekend when Mindolo Dam was playing host to the Colour Festival featuring Cape Town-based Zambian violinist Caitlin, the Bob Marley memorial concert at Diggers Rugby Club...
View ArticleNkwazi wins with ‘Rituals’
KELVIN KACHINGWE, SHIKANDA KAWANGA, Lusaka, Livingstone ZAMBIA Police outfit Nkwazi Theatre Club last weekend won the overall Best Production Award as well as a number of other awards with their play...
View ArticleDad fathers baby with own daughter
NANCY SIAME, DARLINGTON MWENDABAI, Lusaka, Chipata POLICE in Chipata have arrested a 48-year-old man for defiling his 15-year-old biological daughter and fathering a child with her, with the consent of...
View ArticleHH goes to High Court, finally
PRISCILLA CHIPULU, Lusaka UNITED Party for National Development (UPND) president Hakainde Hichilema and five others who are charged with treason were yesterday commit-ted to the High Court for trial....
View ArticleYaluma chats with jerabos
MWILA NTAMBI, Chingola MINISTER of Mines and Minerals Development Christopher Yaluma says there is need to formalise the mining activities of small-scale miners, commonly known as jerabos, to promote...
View ArticleImmorality abominable – Sumaili
CATHERINE MUMBA, Lusaka MINISTER of National Guidance and Religious Affairs Godfridah Sumaili has urged the Church to preach the true gospel of God, especially the need for people to work hard to...
View ArticlePolice pick decomposed body in Lusaka West
PRISCILLA CHIPULU, Lusaka A body of an unidentified man aged between 30 and 40 years was yesterday picked up by the police on Los Angeles Road in Lusaka West. Lusaka police commissioner Nelson Phiri...
View Article1 dies, eight injured
BUTTYSON KANDIMBA, Solwezi A 52-YEAR-OLD man of Chipene village in Mansa has died while eight others, among them the driver, were injured after the driver of the truck they were travelling on lost...
View ArticleBoy rescued from toilet
BUTTYSON KANDIMBA, Solwezi POLICE in Meheba, Solwezi, on Sunday last week rescued an 11-year-old boy who fell into a pit latrine on Saturday. And police in Mwinilunga have mounted a manhunt for a man...
View Article‘Ground King Lion’
NANCY SIAME, Lusaka CROSS-BORDER traders have petitioned the Road Transport and Safety Agency (RTSA) to suspend the operating licence for King Lion Bus Company of Zimbabwe following the death of 43...
View ArticleHH transferred
CAROLINE KALOMBE, PRISCILLA CHIPULU, Lusaka UNITED Party for National Development (UPND) president Hakainde Hichilema, who has been charged with treason, has been transferred to Mukobeko Maximum...
View ArticleStorm forms over land in Ndola
CHISHALA MUSONDA, Ndola SOME suspected Patriotic Front (PF) cadres yesterday staged a protest against Government’s suspension of Ndola City Council from serving as its land administration agent and...
View ArticleLungu counsels Great Lakes on youth
CHIMWEMWE MWALE, SHIKANDA KAWANGA, Livingstone PRESIDENT Lungu has urged ministers in charge of youth in the Great Lakes Region to design programmes which will enable youth to realise their roles and...
View ArticleOne wife, 2 hubbies
ELIZABETH CHATUVELA, Mongu THE Mongu Magistrates Court has heard how two men paid dowry for the same woman and are now fighting over who should be her legitimate husband. Before magistrate Allan Samabi...
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