Former Newcastle manager Kevin Keegan has criticised current owner Mike Ashley with the club on the brink of relegation from the Premier League. Newcastle, who have one game left, against Tottenham on Sunday, could be relegated on Tuesday if Sunderland win their game in hand against Everton. “The owner has had quite a lot of years of making a lot ...

Former Top Gear hosts Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May’s new show on Amazon’s streaming video service will be called The Grand Tour. Unveiling the name, Clarkson said the new show would see them “hosting each episode in a different country”. The trio, who will front three series on Amazon Prime, said name suggestions from fans had been “much ...

Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari says he is not demanding “any apology from anybody” after UK Prime Minister David Cameron labelled his country “fantastically corrupt”. Speaking at an anti-corruption event in London, Mr Buhari said he was more interested in the return of stolen assets held in British banks. Mr Cameron made the unguarded comments in a conversation with the Queen. ...

The Drug Enforcement Commission in Eastern Province has arrested and jointly charged five (05) people for trafficking in over 2.5 tonnes of loose cannabis. Commission Public Relations Officer Theresa Katongo says Christopher Sichone, 31, a businessman of John Laing in Lusaka District has been arrested and jointly charged with Elias Banda, 39, a small-scale farmer of Mukwanta village in Lundazi ...

Zambia has formally been endorsed as host of the Regional collaborative centre of the African Center for Diseases Control (CDC). Zambia was endorsed by the Board of Governors of the African Center for Diseases Control during the inaugural board meeting being held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Health Deputy Minister Chitalu Chilufya who is representing the country has also confirmed that Zambia ...

National House of Prayer advisory board Chairperson Bishop Joshua Banda has called on political leaders to implement the resolutions of the interparty meeting on ending political violence. Bishop Banda says it is shocking that political cadres have continued to perpetrate political violence despite political leaders agreeing to end the vice during their meeting. He says politicians and political party leaders ...

UPND Choma central Member of Parliament Cornelius Mweetwa says the PF Government should be ashamed for giving Zambians a constitution full of inconsistencies. Mr. Mweetwa who is also a Lawyer by profession says the amended constitution has created confusion in the governance system arising from the many errors because of it being hurriedly passed. Mr. Mweetwa says Article 116 (e) ...

The Electoral Commission of Zambia (ECZ) says aspiring candidates in the August 11th elections will be required to present a letter from the Examinations Council of Zambia accompanying the verified copy of the Grade 12 Certificate or its equivalent. ECZ Public Relations Manager Crispin Akufuna in a statement says the ECZ has clarified with the Examinations Council of Zambia on ...

PRESIDENT Edgar Lungu says Ministers will remain in their positions after the dissolution of Parliament today. President Lungu says the republican constitution is clear when it states that Ministers in the current Cabinet have to handover to a new cabinet after a general election. He has wondered how Ministers in the current cabinet will handover responsibilities to the new cabinet ...

Detectives in Minnesota have questioned a doctor who saw the singer Prince twice in the weeks before he died. A police warrant has also revealed that Dr Michael Schulenberg prescribed medication to the singer on 20 April – the day before he died. It does not say what was prescribed or whether Prince took the drugs. The police also conducted ...