By Mercy Chewe Zambia Girls Under-17 coach Kaluba Kangwa says women’s football is on the rise in the nation. Kangwa’s comment comes in the wake of Zambia’s victory at the COSAFA U17 Girls Championship which was part of the 2020 Region 5 Games in Maseru, Lesotho. The Zambian girls on Monday thrashed Botswana 4-0 to lift […]
By BIKALE CLOZZEN The Newly Appointed Permanente Secretary for North Western province Gladson Wishikoti Katambi has reminded civil servants and all heads of Government departments to be committed to duty . Speaking during his first address to all provincial heads of departments Mr Katambi said civil servants are there to offer the much needed services […]
By IREEN MULENGA National Democratic Congress (NDC) President Saboi Imboela says they are disappointed with the UPND Government to continue with the IMF $1.4 billion Extended Credit Facility (ECF) which has come with conditionalities. Ms Imboela said that among the conditions that come with IMF are the removal of subsidies from electricity and fuel. “We […]
By MAIMBO MWEEMBA Police in Lusaka have arrested a male aged 67 of Chifwankula area, Kabangwe for defiling a 15 year old, Contrary to Section 137 of Chapter 87 of the laws of Zambia. Zambia Police SpokepersonRae Hmoonga has identified the defiler has been as George Kasukanya. Mr Hamoonga said brief facts of the matter […]
By Ireen Mulenga Kankoyo Constituency Bufuke ward Youth Chairman Given Mwanza says the rampant theft of ZESCO service cables in Butondo area is worrying. He has said that four households so far been affected by the vice hence the need to intervene in the matter. Mr Mwanza said they have reported the matter several times […]
By ALICE NACHILEMBE Kasompe ward Councillor Martin Lombe says that he has completed opening up of drainages and unblocking old ones in the ward for the smooth passage of water during rainy season. Mr Lombe said that this has been done in collaboration with Chingola Municipal Council. He said that blocked drainages are a bleeding […]
Had the El Derbi been played last weekend, it would have been a game between the top two teams in the La Liga. But after this weekend, three places and 10 points separate the two teams from the Spanish capital. Real are topping the table with 39 points, while their city rivals Atlético are fourth […]
The runner-up in The Gambia’s presidential election, Ousainou Darboe, has said he plans to challenge the result in which the incumbent, Adama Barrow, won with 53% of the vote. Mr Darboe said his team was collecting evidence and would pursue the matter in court if lawyers decided there was a case. He called on his […]
A Zimbabwe court has dropped charges of inciting violent anti-government protests levelled against journalist and government critic Hopewell Chin’ono. The court said prosecutors had failed to specify how a series of tweets constituted an offence. Mr Chin’ono, who has a large social media following, was arrested in July last year and held for several weeks […]
A Kenyan police officer has shot dead his wife and five other people and then killed himself in Kabete town outside the capital Nairobi. Police constable Benson Imbasi is said to have asked his wife to close her shop and the couple went home where neighbours heard shots being fired in the early hours of […]
Maimbo Mweemba
