It’s an honour to make the CAF FIFPRO team – Barbra
WOMEN’s national team captain Barbra Banda says making the CAF FIFPRO Team of The Year is an honour. The striker however missed out on the 2023 CAF Women’s African Player of the Year Award scooped by Asisat Oshoala of Nigeria. Banda is the second Copper Queen’s player to miss out on the accolade, after Grace…...
Mwale finishes 10th at Africa junior chess championships
ZAMBIA’s Women Fide Master (WFM) Naomi Mwale has finished 10th at the 2023 African Individual Junior Chess Championships in Mauritania after managing three wins from nine games. Mwale managed three wins, a draw, and five losses to finish the competition with 3.5 points from the possible nine. In the last three games, Mwale drew against…...
Chomba names 5s World Cup squad
WOMEN’s hockey national team coach Floyd Chomba has named his final 10-member squad ahead of the 2024 Oman Hockey 5s World Cup. The Hockey 5s World Cup is scheduled to kick off in Oman’s capital Muscat from 24 to 27 January, with Zambia pitted in Group B alongside Australia, South Africa, and Ukraine. Chomba has…...
OQBP banishes Muwowo
ORIENTAL Quarries Boxing Promotions (OQBP) Director Promotions Christopher Malunga has revealed that former Africa Boxing Union (ABU) bantamweight champion Alfred Muwowo is no longer part of the stable. Muwowo is believed to be struggling with drug abuse and was arrested for theft earlier in the year, adding to a long list of disciplinary concerns that…...
Chipolopolo will camp in Saudi Arabia ahead of AFCON – Kamanga
FAZ president Andrew Kamanga has revealed that the Chipolopolo will camp in Saudi Arabia ahead of the Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) that swings into action in January. The 2023 AFCON is scheduled to be the 34th edition of the biennial African football tournament organised by CAF. Ivory Coast will be hosting the tournament for…...
Let Umodzi Kum’mawa publish their development works so far
THE revelation that some notable public figures who hail from Eastern Province have formed a group called Umodzi Kum’mawa, to challenge President Hakainde Hichilema over his segregative appointments into government has unsettled a lot of people especially those who have been accused of being part of the movement. Our newspaper has been attacked for publishing…...
Don’t think PF are better allies, they’ll bite you again, UPND tells M’membe
UPND Deputy Secretary General Gertrude Imenda says Socialist Party leader Fred M’membe shouldn’t think the PF are better allies, warning that “you don’t make friends with a snake, one day it will bite you”. On Sunday, Dr M’membe said President Hakainde Hichilema and the UPND had scored badly on human rights. “Today, as we celebrate…...
Matero man gets 14 months for beating up wife
THE Lusaka Magistrates’ Court has sentenced a 56-year-old Matero man to 14 months imprisonment with hard labour for brutally assaulting his wife. In August this year, a video went viral on social media showing Baxton Danga mercilessly beating up his wife, Racheal Nkosi aged 30, using kicks, fists and a hoe handle. Danga committed the…...
You can’t use a memorial as political showdown platform – Mweetwa
CHIEF Government Spokesperson Cornelius Mweetwa says the PF have a democratic right to assemble to remember late Tutwa Ngulube, but says it is wrong to use such an occasion as a political showdown platform. On Saturday, PF faction Deputy Secretary General Nickson Chilangwa told party members in Kabwe that former president Edgar Lungu would attend…...
We’ll look into ways to prevent mine accidents – HH
PRESIDENT Hakainde Hichilema says once the rescue operation is concluded at the Senseli Mine accident scene, government will look into ways of preventing such occurrences in future. And Commerce Minister Chipoka Mulenga says President Hichilema has pledged to provide an additional K10,000 to each affected family. Speaking during the burial ceremony for some retrieved victims,…...