UPND national youth Spokesperson Gilbert Liswaniso says his party has filed a report at Chilanga police about some PF cadres who attacked his campaign team yesterday in Chilanga’s Chimanja ward ahead of the upcoming local government by-elections. And Liswaniso said going forward, his party shall fight back whenever attacked, and urged the PF to get...

A group of workshop delegates were forced to abandon their seminar as they scampered to safety after discovering the grass thatched building they were conducting business from at Chimwemwe Lodge was burning down from the top. Chimwemwe Executive Lodge is a famous luxurious facility located at the Petauke turn off in Petauke district of Eastern...

A dancing video of Chipolopolo coach Wedson Nyirenda has gone viral, days after the Zambia National Soccer team beat the Desert Foxes of Algeria twice in a row. The senior national soccer team coach danced with the boys in the dressing room to celebrate the U-20 success in winning the Africa Cup of Nations. Nicknamed...

As the 689th Lord Mayor of the City of London, I act as an ambassador for the UK's financial and professional services sector, and am here in Zambia this week to meet with senior business and government officials to discuss how we can build closer business ties between our two countries. During my year in...

Police in Solwezi have opened a docket for a case in which four men allegedly took turns defiling a 15-year-old girl of Mangrade area. North Western Police Commissioner Auxensio Daka disclosed in a statement yesterday that that the incident happened on Tuesday between 16:00 and 18:00 hours near Solwezi Trades School when the victim used...

Chipolopolo striker Brian Mwila is expected to be out of action for most of September due to injury. Mwila sustained a knee injury on September 2 while in action for Zambia in their 3-1 home win over Algeria in a 2018 World Cup Group B qualifier at National Heroes Stadium in Lusaka. The striker, from...

FAZ has handed Nkana president Evaristo Kabila and club secretary Mutale Kapwepwe a six-week ban from football activities for "bringing the game into disrepute". Kabila and Kapwepwe’s ban emanates from a July 19 letter Nkana sent to the FAZ general secretary Ponga Liwewe but also availed to the media. In that letter, Nkana complained over...

Commonwealth secretary-general Patricia Scotland’s special envoy Ibrahim Gambari says he wants to ensure that a conducive environment is created for Zambia’s next general elections. The Nigerian scholar and diplomat, who arrived in Zambia on Wednesday, told journalists after a closed door meeting with President Edgar Lungu yesterday that he would come into the country at...

National House of Prayer Advisory Board chairman Bishop Joshua Banda has announced a 40 day period of prayer and fasting leading up to October 18. At a media briefing yesterday, Bishop Banda explained that there would be a church praying and fasting for the nation on each day of this period which begins today. He...

The Patriotic Front government has continued borrowing with the latest acquisition being a $200 million loan from the World Bank intended for feeder roads. And government has paid K308.5 million of debt owed to Zesco, Zambia State Insurance Corporation (ZSIC), and Zamtel by various ministries, provinces, and spending agencies. According to a statement issued by...