THE women's national team showed great character to exit the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup with honour following a 3-1 win over Costa Rica in Hamilton. Lushomo Mweemba, Barbra Banda, and Rachael Kundananji scored for the Copper Queens as Zambia finished third, behind leaders Japan and Spain in Group C. It was a day of...

OUR female national soccer team has ended their FIFA World Cup tour on a high note with a hard-earned 3 points in a grueling encounter against Costa Rica yesterday. Soccer fans couldn’t get enough of that game, while critics couldn’t believe what they saw from the “Copper Queens”, having written them off following two successive...

THE Non-Governmental Gender Organisations' Coordinating Council (NGOCC) has congratulated Priscilla Chansa on being the first woman to be elected as Transparency International Zambia (TIZ) president and chairperson of the Board of Directors. In a statement, Monday, TIZ executive director Maurice Nyambe said Chansa, who had been a member of TI-Z for 20 years, was replacing...

TWO Lusaka general workers have been convicted and sentenced to three years imprisonment with hard labour for breaking into a Seventh Day Adventist (SDA) Church and stealing properties worthy K54,000. Nyambe and Mwila, between January 4 and 5, 2023, jointly and while acting together did break into a Seventh Day Adventist Church in Makeni and...

PF Information and Publicity Chairperson Raphael Nakacinda claims former ruling party officials were not allowed to visit their incarcerated Secretary General Nickson Chilangwa due to instructions from "senior people in government". But Police Inspector General Graphel Musamba says PF members are cry babies who failed to follow the correct procedure when they attempted to visit...

THE Energy Regulation Board (ERB) has adjusted upwards the pump price for all petroleum products between K0.64 per litre and K2.21 per litre. ERB Board Chairperson Reynolds Bowa said the current price for petrol is now K25.57 per liter from K24.93, K23.36 for diesel from K21.87, while kerosene has been pegged at K20.44 from for...

THE Lusaka Magistrates’ Court yesterday conducted a scene visit to Chirundu boarder in a matter in which former Industrial Development Corporation (IDC) Chief Executive Officer Mateyo Kaluba and six others are facing 41 counts of abuse of authority and attempting to export Mukula. Kaluba is jointly charged with former director of the forestry department Ignatius...

WORLD Bank Vice President Eastern and Southern Africa Victoria Kwakwa says the African continent is facing a serious human capital crisis which needs urgent attention. And Dr Kwakwa says a lot is at stake for the global community because by 2050, Africa will represent almost 40 per cent of the children, zero to 14 years,...

MINES and Minerals Development Minister Paul Kabuswe says government has not yet found a conclusive solution for Mopani and Konkola Copper Mines (KCM). A fortnight ago, government said it was no longer counting months but just days before it announced the direction it would take for Mopani and KCM, adding that it was targeting July...

THE Constitutional Court has ruled that the Attorney General is in breach of Articles 122 (3) and 123 of the Constitution by not putting in place legislation and measures to ensure that the Judiciary is fully financially independent and adequately funded. The ConCourt has since ordered Parliament to ensure that appropriate legislation is enacted to...