A GRADE 12 pupil at Milemu Secondary School in Lufwanyama District on the Copperbelt Province has lamented that learning amid the COVID-19 pandemic is especially difficult for learners in rural areas. Prescovia Kasazhi, 17, says some of her peers have fell pregnant when schools were indefinitelt closed in March while those from poor and vulnerable...

FORMER Secretary to Cabinet Dr Sketchely Sacika has encouraged Lusaka Mayor Miles Sampa and his Kitwe counterpart Christopher Kang’ombe to sue Local government Minister Charles Banda for illegally suspending their councils. And Dr Sacika has called on the Local Government Association of Zambia (LGAZ) to pass a resolution to abolish the position of District Commissioner...

MEDICAL expert Dr Aaron Mujajati says over 600 men die from prostate cancer every year in Zambia, partly due to lack of sensitization on the severity of the disease. Speaking when he featured on Hot FM’s breakfast show, Thursday, Dr Mujajati observed that most people had little or no idea about the dangers of prostate...

HOME Affairs Minister Stephen Kampyongo has asked Zambians not to judge former Education Minister David Mabumba but pray for him, saying being a leader doesn't mean one has turned into an angel who cannot sin. And Kampyongo says Zambia will completely migrate to digital issuance of National Registration Cards (NRCs) in 2021, in accordance with...

UPND Spokesperson Charles Kakoma says the ruling Patriotic Front (PF) will be badly defeated in the 2021 elections because it will not have the resources to bribe every voter like it has been doing in by-elections. And Kakoma says his party is happy with its performance in the just ended local government by-elections in Western,...

OPPOSITION United Party for National Development (UPND) president Hakainde Hichilema’s followers took to social media to express their dissatisfaction at his silence over the party’s loss in the just ended local government by-elections. On Friday morning, Hichilema shared a post on his Facebook page which read “the youth are saying ‘Bally will fix it,’ and...

MINISTRY of Health Permanent Secretary for administration Kakulubelwa Mulalelo says Zambia has recorded 119 new cases of COVID-19 and five deaths in the last 24 hours, bringing the country’s cumulative total to 6,347. Meanwhile, Mulalelo has insisted that people should avoid weddings, funerals and drinking places to lower the risk of infection. Speaking during the...

Ministry of Health Permanent Secretary in charge of administration Kakulubelwa Mulalelo says Zambia has in the last 24 hours recorded 119 new COVID-19 cases from 559 tests done. And Mulalelo says there were five COVID-19 related deaths in the last 24 hours. She was speaking at the latest COVID-19 briefing in Lusaka today. “On a...

ZAMBIA has in the last 24 hours recorded 265 new cases of COVID-19 and 14 deaths out of 1,908 tests conducted, bringing the country’s cumulative total to 6,228. And government says men are more affected by COVID-19, based on local statistics. Ministry of Health Permanent Secretary in charge of administration Kakulubelwa Mulalelo said this at...

PRESIDENT Edgar Lungu has terminated the contract of Zambia National Service (ZNS) Deputy Commandant Major-General Alick Kamiji and replaced him with Brigadier General Benson Miti, whom he has also elevated to the rank of Major-General. Special Assistant to the President for Press and Public Relations Isaac Chipampe disclosed this in a statement, Friday. In his...