‘Mining communities must benefit’
BUTTYSON KANDIMBA, Solwezi STAKEHOLDERS in North-Western Province have recommended that 20 percent of the mineral royalties collected from the mines should be redirected to local communities to...
View ArticleKitwe gets modern traffic lights
MELODY MUPETA, Kitwe THE Kitwe City Council (KCC) has started installing modern traffic lights in the central business district (CBD) to improve road safety. Council public relations manager Dorothy...
View ArticleFormer miners get 15,000 hectares land
MELODY MUPETA, Lufwanyama GOVERNMENT has started demarcating 15,000 hectares of land in the Luswishi farm block in Lufwanyama district on the Copperbelt for the 1,691 former miners retrenched from the...
View ArticleSmuggling curbed at Kasumbalesa
NKOLE MULAMBIA, Ndola CHILILABOMBWE district commissioner Paul Mulenga says the smuggling of maize and mealie meal at Kasumbalesa border with the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has significantly...
View ArticleZRL, TAZARA to network
MWILA NTAMBI, Kitwe ZAMBIA Railways Limited Chief executive officer Christopher Musonda says the railway firm has concluded an agreement with the Tanzania Zambia Railway Authority (TAZARA) which will...
View ArticleGovt to empower over 11,000 women in 11 districts
MWAPE MWENYA, Lusaka GOVERNMENT says it will empower over 11,000 women in 11 districts with start-up capital through its Support to Women Livelihood Programme under the Ministry of Community...
View ArticleLoad-shedding normalised – Mabumba
ALVIN CHIINGA, Lusaka MINISTER of Energy David Mabumba says there will be no more load-shedding of longer hours due to increased electricity generation in the country. Mr Mabumba said due to increased...
View ArticleLungu orders restoration of sanity in civil service
STEVEN MVULA, Lusaka PRESIDENT Lungu says the civil service is still politically contaminated and has since directed employing authorities to restore sanity to improve the delivery of public services....
View ArticleAction will set Zambia’s success
GOVERNMENT’S role is to make policies that level a playing field for various sectors of the economy. Through its various policies, Government provides direction on how it wants the economy to be run to...
View ArticleMan, 38, dies in Kalulushi car accident
MWILA NTAMBI, Kitwe A THIRTY-EIGHT -YEAR-OLD man of Kalulushi district on the Copperbelt died on the spot on the Kitwe-Kalulushi road after the vehicle he was in collided head on with a vehicle coming...
View ArticleKabwata Orphanage: Many successes 20 years later
VIOLET MENGO, Lusaka WENDY Musonda has a thriving career as a banker. Looking at her, no one would guess that she grew up in an orphanage. Today Wendy is married and has a daughter. She is a cashier in...
View ArticleSport unifier, says First Lady Esther Lungu
CECILIA ZULU, Lusaka FIRST Lady Esther Lungu says sport can be used as a tool to unite people regardless of their status in society. Speaking at the prize-presentation ceremony of the Gilberson &...
View ArticleSouth Africa Grand Master maintains cruise
SYLVESTER CHISHIMBA, Lusaka SOUTH African Grand Master Kenny Solomon has maintained grip at the Zone 4.3 Individual Chess Championship after a stalemate with Zambia’s International Master (IM) Andrew...
View ArticleMfuwe makes wildlife conservation habit
BENEDICT TEMBO, Mfuwe THEY walked, some cycled and others drove or were driven in all manner of vehicles – cars, buses, trucks – to Mfuwe International Airport for the 2017 annual conservation fun run...
View ArticleZambian survives London hell
HONE SIAME, Lusaka TRAUMATISED by the ‘hell fire’ that claimed several lives and left many people injured after sweeping through London’s Grenfell Tower in the early hours of Wednesday, Zambian...
View ArticleState will not condone fake pastors, says Veep
KELVIN CHONGO, Parliament VICE-PRESIDENT Inonge Wina says Government will not allow unscrupulous people masquerading as religious leaders to swindle poor people out of their hard-earned cash. Mrs Wina,...
View ArticleZanaco slaughter Buffaloes
ALEX NJOVU, National Heroes Stadium, Lusaka ZANACO 2 BUFFALOES 1 CHAMPIONS Zanaco yesterday showed character edging Green Buffaloes in a thrilling Super Division rescheduled Week Nine match to close...
View ArticleAfrican passports ready 2018 – Ngwenya
CHOMBA MUSIKA, Lusaka THE African Union (AU) will next year start issuing African passports to allow better movement of people to stimulate African economies, AU commission deputy chairperson Sindiso...
View Article1.8 million people in Luapula to receive mosquito nets
CHRISTINE CHIHAME, Mansa LUAPULA Province health director Peter Bwalya has said over 1.8 million people in the region have registered with the Ministry of Health to receive insecticide-treated mosquito...
View ArticleState collects K236m tolls
KELVIN CHONGO, Parliament MINISTER of Housing and Infrastructure Development Ronald Chitotela has told Parliament that Government has raised K236 million from toll fees between January and May this...
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