NATIONAL Division One side Lumwana Radiants’ newly appointed coach Bilton Musonda has promised to guide the team back into the MTN Super League. The North Western Province-based outfit yesterday re-appointed Musonda to take charge of the team until the end of the season on a performance-based contract. Musonda is returning to North Western, seven months...

FAZ president Andrew Kamanga says the women's national team is obliged to give Copperbelt fans and everyone else a scintillating performance when it faces off with Angola in the second leg of the 2024 WAFCON qualifier at the Levy Mwanawasa Stadium tomorrow. Bruce Mwape's lassies head into this evening's encounter carrying a 6-0 advantage and...

ZAMBIA has cruised through to the final at the ongoing net Africa Cup of Nations after beating Kenya 42-38 in a tightly contested encounter in Gaborone, Botswana yesterday. The Lazarous Tembo-coached side will now face the winners between Zimbabwe and Nambia in the final set for Wednesday. In the first quarter, Zambia led 12-6 thanks...

FOR every citizen who voted for the UPND, every member who suffered, risked life and sacrificed resources to get the UPND in power; every Zambian who endured the terror of the Patriotic Front; it must be very painful to see what is happening to the ruling party. We believe we speak for many when we...

ECONOMIST Trevor Hambayi says the Bank of Zambia’s strategies aimed at stabilising the Kwacha against major convertibles have so far not yielded positive results. And Hambayi says government needs to create a conducive business environment for small-scale miners rather than pouncing on them for failure to pay taxes. The Bank of Zambia Monetary Policy Committee...

MINISTER of Youth, Sport and Arts Elvis Nkandu says the UPND government has scored a distinction in terms of fulfilling its pledges because 80 percent of its promises have come to fruition. Nkandu says the new dawn administration is aware that people expected cheaper mealie meal and for fuel to cost less than K30 but...

POLICE in Chawama have apprehended and detained a 32-year-old man for attempting to kill his former wife after accusing her of being a prostitute. Police Public Relations Officer Rae Hamoonga disclosed in a statement that the suspect, Cazwell Sichibanga, attacked his former wife, Mwaka Kalilakwenda aged 26, with a machete, leaving her with several deep cuts...

COPPERBELT Minister Elisha Matambo has revealed that 27 families have come forward with the names of their loved ones believed to be among those trapped at the Seseli Mine in Chingola. And Matambo says government has mobilised 11 excavators for the search team which are working 24/7 and consuming about 4,500 litres of fuel per...

KANTANSHI PF member of parliament Anthony Mumba says it's worrying that the state is awarding individuals hefty compensations at a time when Zambians are faced with the high cost of living. Commenting on the recent consent judgments in which the state awarded Transport and Logistics Minister Frank Tayali K450,000 and Lusaka Province UPND Chairman Obvious...

GENDER division Permanent Secretary Mainga Kabika says although most people link Gender Based Violence to fights between a couple, even denying your spouse access to finances is a form of GBV. And Kabika has insisted that all the functions that were performed by the gender ministry are still being carried out by the division, except...