4 in court over hippo teeth, ivory
CHOMBA MUSIKA Lusaka A FORMER banker, a student and two other men have been taken to court after allegedly being in possession of over 100 kilogrammes of elephant ivory and two pieces of hippo teeth...
View ArticleTeen sent to Katombora after murder conviction
PRISCILLA CHIPULU Ndola A 15-YEAR-OLD juvenile offender has been sent to Katombora Reformatory School after he was convicted for causing the death of his friend over beer. This is in a case the...
View Article1.2m entrepreneurs projected
NANCY MWAPE Lusaka ABOUT 1.2 million entrepreneurs are projected to be created through the Citizen Entrepreneurs Development Programme, the Economics Association of Zambia (EAZ) says. The Citizen...
View ArticleSIDA, UNICEF join COVID fight
PRISCILLA MWILA Lusaka THE Swedish International Development Agency and United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) have given Zambia US$5.2 million (about K94 million) to boost essential health services...
View ArticleLockdown worse pill
ZAMBIA is caught between a rock and a hard place. The rock being the worrisome rising cases of COVID-19 that may require a lockdown and the hard place being the economic turbulences that could worsen...
View ArticleFAZ attracting derision over league decisions
DIANA CHIPEPO, CHISHIMBA BWALYA Lusaka IF THERE is a better way of gauging how the public thinks of the decisions taken by the Football Association of Zambia (FAZ) in recent days as they attempt to...
View ArticleChamanga diagnoses Chipolopolo ills
MULWANDA LUPIYA Ndola VETERAN Red Arrows striker James Chamanga says the current crop of young Chipolopolo players lack ambition and hunger to succeed at the highest level. The 40-year-old former...
View ArticleWizard ‘confesses’ sex with teachers
CHRISTINE CHIHAME Lusaka A SELF-CONFESSED wizard in Chief Munkanta’s area in Kawambwa has shocked residents after allegedly admitting having sex with female teachers in their sleep at night. Such...
View ArticleEx-UNZA don jailed for defiling daughters
DOREEN NAWA Lusaka A FORMER University of Zambia lecturer, Sraj Umar Banda, has been jailed for 14 years in Sweden for defiling his two daughters. According to a report in the NyaTider (New Times) of...
View ArticleNdola residents living with dead
NKOLE MULAMBIA Ndola ILLEGAL land developers in Ndola have encroached on four cemeteries, raising concern of health hazards as some of them have sunk boreholes on the land. And the council swung into...
View ArticleDon’t keep patients at home
THE increasing number of brought-in-dead (BID) COVID-19 cases in Zambia over the last few weeks has brought to a head the denial among many people over the presence of the pandemic in our midst. It is...
View Article2 IN EVERY 5 SICK
DOREEN NAWA Lusaka ZAMBIA has recorded 416 new cases of COVID-19 out of 1,003 tests done in the last 24 hours bringing the cumulative number of cases to 7,903. That means 41 percent of the tests...
View ArticleKambwili insists he should challenge Simusamba’s refusal to recuse self
CHOMBA MUSIKA Lusaka FORMER Roan Member of Parliament Chishimba Kambwili has insisted that he should be given permission to challenge a magistrate’s decision to refuse to refer his forgery case to the...
View ArticleCobalt demand rises
NANCY MWAPE Lusaka COBALT has recorded a significant demand on the London Metal Exchange (LME) trading at US$33,100 per tonne, representing 14.14 percent spike from US$29,000 recorded two weeks ago....
View ArticleZesco denies CEC’s theories
CHOMBA MUSIKA Lusaka ZESCO Limited has denied conspiring with Konkola Copper Mines (KCM) to injure Copperbelt Energy Corporation’s (CEC’s) business following Government’s decision to declare its...
View ArticleFake negative tests
PRISCILLA MWILA Lusaka WITH the country recording 32 deaths in the last 24 hours, Government has urged Zambians to be wary of unscrupulous health institutions which are conducting rapid COVID-19...
View ArticleStand up for clients, businesses, banks told
TRYNESS TEMBO, CHAMBO NG’UNI Lusaka, Kabwe WITH the negative impact of coronavirus on various sectors, a financial expert says banks need to provide finance to businesses in a bid to aid the recovery...
View ArticleEngage qualified electricians for wiring tasks
IN THE recent past, I have received calls from Zesco Limited customers from across the country reporting damage of property due to what they believe could be persistent power outage. The belief is that...
View Article130 megawatts off as Maamba machine malfunction
STEVEN MVULA Lusaka ZAMBIANS should brace for longer hours of load-shedding following a loss of 130 megawatts from the national electricity grid as a result of two failed machines at Maamba Collieries....
View ArticleGovernment reaffirms road development
MAYENGO NYIRENDA Sinda IT IS Government’s desire to provide a decent road network countrywide to facilitate more investment which is key to national development. Minister of Local Government Charles...
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