Katete Man Sets Himself On Fire In Suicide Attempt
A man from Katete, Nyanje’s Pandala village named Misheck Banda aged 21 wanted to take his life on Friday night after his father advised him to concentrate on the woman he had children with as opposed...
View ArticleDEC Arrest Woman For Traficking Cocaine In Condoms
DEC Public Relations Officer Theresa Katongo says Thabisa Mlilwana, a South African AIDS counsellor of Little Falls College residing at No. 27 Barbet Street, Mondeor in Johannesburg has been arrested...
View ArticleMinimum Wage Puts Zambia Under Pressure
GOVERNMENT is under pressure from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank over why workers should be given a minimum wage of K3,000. Labour and Social Security Minister Fackson...
View Article2 Buried Alive In Southern Province
From CHALI MULENGA in Livingstone and CHOMBA MUSIKA in Choma TWO workers of a construction company have died after a trench they were digging caved in on them in Livingstone yesterday. The third person...
View ArticleKwacha Loses More Grip Against Dollar
THE Kwacha finally lost its K6.5 grip against the United States dollar to trade at K6.6 level on Wednesday due to strong greenback demand, financial market players say. Zanaco Bank observes that the...
View ArticleGovt Uses ZRA In Absence SI 55 – Yamba
Secretary to the Treasury Fredson Yamba says Government is still gathering information on the country’s imports and exports through the Zambia Revenue Authority following the revocation of Statutory...
View ArticleOpposition Demand Reintroduction of Windfall Tax
Opposition political parties have demanded that government re-introduces windfall tax in view of revelations by Vedanta Chairman Anil Agarwal that Konkola Copper Mines (KCM) makes a minimum profit of...
View Article10 Year-Old Girl’s Pregnancy Perplexes Mum
This is too much for me to take, says mother of the 10-year-old girl of Ndola’s Kaloko area who has been forced out of school after discovering that she is pregnant. In an interview in Kaloko on...
View ArticleDo We Deserve to Be Mocked By Agarwal?
Anil Agarwal’s story about how he has dribbled the Zambian people and their government to make a fortune is annoying. But the anger should not be wholly directed at him. A greater part of it should be...
View ArticleDambisa Defends Topless Photos ‘Only a Shallow Minded Person Can Condemn Me’
ONLY a shallow-minded person can condemn me for showing off my pregnancy in a magazine, says singer Dambisa Lunda. And Dambisa says there is nothing wrong with her exposing her ‘baby bump’ topless. She...
View ArticleOpposition Should Not Take Lubindas Statement as Cheap Politicking
The observations made by Given Lubinda, Kabwata PF member of parliament, that there is no opposition in Zambia and that the current opposition political parties should not even think they can remove...
View ArticleNdola Commando Assaults Wife For Denying Him Sex
A 32-YEAR-OLD commando of Kalewa barracks in Ndola who battered his wife for allegedly denying him sex, about a week ago, has appeared in the Ndola magistrate’s court for plea. Luckson Malanga, 32, a...
View ArticleRevelations By IMF Over Debt Trap Worries Magande
Former Finance Minister Ng’andu Magande has charged that government should state clearly its position on worries by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) that Zambia will slip into another debt trap....
View ArticleNow In Ndola As More Pupils Go On Maternity Leave
MORE pupils are going on maternity leave with the latest being 12 at Mitenge community school in Mwekera in Ndola. Five other pupils at the school have been married off by their parents. This comes...
View ArticleChingola’s Illegal Miner Shot In the Butt
By NANCY SIAME AN illegal miner has been shot in the buttocks by a security guard after he was found illegally mining in Chingola. The incident happened on Friday around 15:00 hours at old Luano open...
View ArticlePregnant 10-year-old Ndola Girl to Deliver Through Caesarian Section
THE mother of the 10-year-old pregnant girl of Kaloko compound in Ndola says doctors have advised that her daughter delivers her child through Caesarian section. In an interview after she took her...
View ArticleBoZ Moves To Ease Kwacha Speculation
The Bank of Zambia has advised the public to desist from taking any speculative positions on the Kwacha, as this may result in heavy financial losses on their part when the Kwacha reverts to an...
View ArticleLusaka Man Slits Wife’s Throat, Commits Suicide
A MAN of Lusaka’s Lilanda West Township on Wednesday night allegedly slit his wife’s throat killing her instantly after a marital dispute, Lusaka province Police commissioner Lemmy Kajoba has...
View ArticleNdola Joins Calls: Local Government Service Commission Must Go
THE Ndola City Council (NCC) has joined calls to abolish the Local Government Service Commission (LGSC) because it allegedly does not promote Government’s policy on decentralisation. Ndola mayor Samuel...
View ArticleBishop Mambo:Zambians Sholud Unite And Pray For Release Of Final Draft...
Former Church of God overseer, Bishop John Mambo has called on Zambians to unite and pray for the release of the final draft constitution. Commenting on the launch by the Grand Coalition on the...
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