POLICE in Lusaka have picked up four Zambians in connection with the killing an Asian woman and wounding of her husband a week ago.
FORMER UNIP secretary general Grey Zulu is upset with a media reports that the Government regards him as a criminal when he has all along been receiving help from the State.
THE total expenditure of the Task Force on Corruption was higher than the recoveries made during the period of its operations, Home Affairs Minister Lameck Mangani has said.
MORE than 500 Congolese refugees were yesterday repatriated to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) from Zambia, bringing the total number of refugees that have left the country since May to 15, 660.
ETHIOPIAN Airlines passengers who were scheduled to leave for Addis Ababa yesterday got stranded after the aeroplane they were to board burst two tyres on landing at the Lusaka International Airport.
THE National Union of Communication Workers (NUCW) and Zamtel management have agreed on a conditional separation package to be paid to all workers before the firm is partially privatised, NUCW general secretary, Clement Kasonde has said.
PARLIAMENT yesterday heard that the media can be a dangerous tool if placed in the hands of non-professionals, especially during election time when political tension is high.
THE Government has challenged civil society organisations and others disputing that K19 billion was used during the illness and funeral of late president Levy Mwanawasa to report the matter to the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC).
PRESIDENT Rupiah Banda yesterday left for Burundi to attend the international conference on the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR) heads of State and Government round-table conference.
THE issue of poor drainage systems in most towns in the country has become a perennial problem encountered every rainy season.
CONTRACTORS have moved on site in Solwezi to give the civic centre a facelift and install street lights in a project expected to cost the local authority about K1.7billion.
SUSPECTED bandits on Monday evening shot dead a woman of Asian origin and wounded her husband in Lusaka's Madras area at the gate of another family that the couple was visiting.
A CROSS-section of Zambians has condemned the smear campaign launched by some former Government leaders and members of the civil society against President Rupiah Banda's family and the Government.
THE Church has castigated former vice-president Enoch Kavindele for his unjustified personal attacks on President Rupiah Banda and his family.
FIRST Lady, Thandiwe Banda has called for the redoubling of efforts to reduce maternal mortality in developing countries.
