NATIONAL team boxing coach Wisdom Mudenda has urged Africa Championship bound boxers to remain disciplined and focused if they are to deliver medals in Mozambique next month. Eight boxers are set to represent the country in Mozambique at the premier annual showpiece that will run from September 9-18. Commonwealth Games silver and bronze medallists Stephen...

WOMEN'S national team coach Bruce Mwape has handed a call-up to Nigeria based midfielder Natasha Witika in his 33 member provisional squad ahead of the 2022 Hollywoodbets COSAFA Women's Championship set for next month in South Africa. Other players summoned for the first time to the senior women's national team include U-17 first choice goal...

EDEN University national league new comers Barts Football Club has beefed up its squad with 18 new acquisitions ahead of the league kick off this weekend. Meanwhile, the Club has also loaned out 14 players to Ezaloch football club from Maamba town in Sinazongwe District. The Southern Province based team is new in the Eden...

LUAPULA Province Minister Derrick Chilundika says the recent break-in at his residence which led to the shooting dead of one intruder by a police officer did not seem like an ordinary theft attempt. Earlier this week, a Police officer who was performing guard duties at the Minister's residence in Chingola gunned down a suspected criminal...

A CHINESE businessman has appeared in the Lusaka Magistrates' Court and denied threatening to kill a fellow Chinese national and expressing or showing hatred, ridicule or contempt for persons because of race. Huang Sam Weison, 42, is charged with two counts of written threats to murder and expressing or showing hatred, ridicule or contempt for...

SOCIALIST Party leader Dr Fred M’membe says his party has resolved to support PF candidates in the upcoming Kabushi and Kwacha by-elections. Speaking during a media briefing, Wednesday, Dr M’membe said his party would not field candidates in both constituencies. He said the decision to support the candidature of Bowman Lusambo and Joseph Malanji was...

HEALTH Minister Sylvia Masebo says many people doubted the free education policy, admitting that she also wasn’t sure but President Hakainde Hichilema’s commitment made it possible to achieve it. And Masebo says today’s generation of youths is the largest in history, yet they face limited opportunities to engage politically, economically, socially and in matters of...

FORMER home affairs minister Stephen Kampyongo says the break-in which occurred at former president Edgar Lungu's residence raises a lot of questions because, under PF, such never happened despite having two former heads of state to take care of. In an interview, Kampyongo said there were no such incidences during PF's tenure. "The concerns of...

THE Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has recorded a warn and caution statement from former Kabushi member of parliament Bowman Lusambo over allegations of bribing voters in Kabushi constituency during the August 12, 2021 general elections. And Lusambo's lawyer Jonas Zimba says his client has given his position on the matter, adding that justice will prevail. In...

FORMER NHIMA Director General James Kapesa, who was fired by the new board on the basis that his contract was illegal because he was ill-qualified for the role, has sued the authority for wrongful termination, demanding various reliefs. According to an affidavit in support of notice of complaint filed in the High Court's Industrial Relations...