ZAMBIA wraps up their tour of Mali with a second international friendly against their hosts as assistant coach Moses Sichone looks for a morale-boosting win for his team. After losing 1-0 in their first game on Friday night, Sichone did not buy so much into the result but rather focused on how his squad performed....

RED Arrows at the weekend came from behind to edge Kitwe Playing Fields (KPF)18-16 to retain the National Rugby League (NRL) for a record nine times in a row. Arrows finished with 55 points, one better than KPF who had seemed to have done their homework and dominated play but, in the end, experience counted...

ALJOSA Asanovic has terminated his contract with FAZ after the association refused to pay him money amounting to US$41,000. Meanwhile, FAZ says it has not breached Asanovic's contract and on the contrary claims that it's the coach who has breached their agreement. The Croatian gaffer and FAZ have been involved in a back-and-forth exchange of...

CONSUMER Rights Association of Zambia (CRAZ) president Aaron Kamuti has opposed Transport and Logistics Minister Frank Tayali's position that road traffic checkpoints must be reintroduced in a bid to curb accidents. After 11 people died in an accident on Great East Road near the UNZA bridge, Saturday, Tayali said he would engage his Ministry of...

THE Constitutional court has dismissed five Road Development Agency former directors' petition in which they sought to be reintroduced on payroll until all their benefits were paid in full. In this matter, the five sued the agency, seeking a declaration that the decision to remove them from the payroll without paying them their terminal benefits...

FORMER PF secretary general Davies Mwila says UPND should swallow their pride and tell citizens that there is no money in the country, hence incidences like drug shortages. And Mwila says PF’s way of borrowing was better because theirs had no conditionalities attached. Meanwhile, Mwila says vacancies at certain government institutions are because President Hakainde...

THE Lusaka Magistrates' Court has committed a Lusaka man who allegedly defiled two children and infected them with HIV to the High Court for sentencing. Ben Mulenga, 34, was facing two counts of defilement. It was alleged in count one that Mulenga on October 19, 2022 had unlawful carnal knowledge of a child under the...

VICE-PRESIDENT Mutale Nalumango has appealed to the Church to spiritually fight any form of attack against Zambia’s status as a Christian Nation such as sodomy and homosexuality. And the Zambia Conference of Catholic Bishops (ZCCB) says although the church does not accept homosexual tendencies, homosexuals are not criminals and they must therefore not be criminalised....

MINISTRY of Education Permanent Secretary for technical services Joel Kamoko says his ministry expects every serious province to score a minimum of 80 percent pass rate in this year’s examinations because government has employed enough teachers. In an interview, Friday, Kamoko warned teachers against engaging in examination malpractices, saying such people would not only be...

FORMER Presidential Press Aide Amos Chanda has vowed that he will disclose, on oath, DEC boss Mary Chirwa's "malicious motivation" to re-arrest him in court. And Chanda has insisted that he is neither corrupt, nor has he ever laundered any amounts of money during his time in government or when he left office. But Drug...