The National Council for Construction (NCC) has disclosed that it has registered a total of 3,241 contractors as of March 31st. NCC Executive Director Charles Mushota says this is the first time the council has managed to register almost 70 percent of the existing contractors in the first quarter of the year. In an interview, Mr. Mushota says this figure ...

Government warned people behind the recent spate of killings in George, Lilanda and Zingalume townships in Lusaka that the law will catch up with them so that they answer for their barbaric and heartless acts. Chief Government Spokesperson Chishimba Kambwili in a statement says government will not allow criminals to commit such cruel acts with impunity. Mr. Kambwili says Government ...

President Edgar Lungu has pardoned 525 convicted prisoners including those on the death roll in   a bid to decongest prisons in the country. Special Assistant to the President for Press and Public Relations Amos Chanda has told Journalists in Lusaka today that some of the prisoners are facing life imprisonment while others are serving long sentences. Mr. Chanda says the ...

President Edgar Lungu has warned millers, the business community and traders in the habit of abrogating state regulations on the exportation of maize and mealie meal of stern action. The President sounded the warning when he met NGOCC Board members at State House who expressed concern over the artificial shortage of mealie meal in some parts of the country. President ...

The Road Transport and Safety Agency (RTSA) has given Mazhandu bus services a seven days ultimatum to show cause why it road service license should not be revoked or suspended for failure to comply with conditions subject to which it was granted. This follows Monday’s accident in which a Mazhandu bus was involved resulting in the death of seven people. ...

KIM Kardashian is unsure whether she wants to fall pregnant again. The KUWTK star – who already has North, 2, and Saint, 4 months, with her husband Kanye West – is reportedly worried about adding to her brood as it poses substantial risks to her health. The 35-year-old beauty suffered multiple complications throughout her previous pregnancies and although she would love ...

Pope Francis is to make public the conclusions of his two Synods on the family in a document eagerly awaited by 1.3 billion Roman Catholics. It will detail the pope’s views about family life, marriage, contraception and bringing up children. Many hope it will open the way for the church to offer communion to the divorced and civilly remarried, something ...

A second group of migrants is being sent back from Greece to Turkey as part of an EU deal to reduce the numbers reaching Europe. Three protesters dived into the water to try to stop a ferry carrying 45 Pakistani men as it left Lesbos but were fished out by coastguards. Other protesters tried to enter the gates of the ...

Liverpool claimed an excellent 1-1 draw with Borussia Dortmund in the first leg of their Europa League quarterfinal on Thursday as Jurgen Klopp made an emotional return to the Westfalenstadion. The game marked Klopp’s first coming together with his former club since his departure last summer and subsequent appointment by Liverpool back in October. He saw Divock Origi put the ...

Egyptian Ambassador to Zambia Ragai Nasr has pledged to encourage more Egyptian investment in Zambia. Mr. Nasr says this will help strengthen the already existing cordial relations between the two countries. He explains that Egypt and Zambia have always shared brotherly relations since Zambia’s independence culminating into private investments in Zambia in the fields of construction, engineering among others. Mr. ...