Higher Education Minister Professor Nkandu Luo has challenged intellectuals in the country to help find solutions to the challenges the country is facing. Professor Luo says Zambia has the potential to develop if only intellectuals can help come up with scientific solutions to the many challenges the country is facing. She has also challenged students at higher learning institutions not ...

The Zambia Police recorded a total of 18,540 cases of Gender Based Violence countrywide in 2016 compared to 18,088 cases in 2015, representing an increase by 452 cases translating into 2.4%. Police Spokesperson Esther Katongo says Copperbelt recorded the highest number of GBV cases with 5,554 followed by Lusaka with 3,751, while Northern Province recorded the lowest at 383. Ms ...

Johnny Depp’s financial troubles are caused by a lavish $2m-a-month lifestyle, say the business managers he is suing for mismanaging his earnings. They claim he spent more than $75m (£59.6m) on 14 homes and $3m (£2.4m) blasting author Hunter S Thompson’s ashes out of a cannon. The Management Group are countersuing Depp after the Pirates of the Caribbean actor sued ...

Leading Democrats have come out in staunch opposition to Donald Trump’s nomination of Neil Gorsuch for the vacant position on the Supreme Court. The court has the final say on such divisive issues such as abortion, gun control and gay rights. If confirmed by the Senate, Judge Gorsuch, from Colorado, would restore the court’s conservative 5-4 majority. Senate Democratic leader ...

Government has reassured traditional leaders in the country that it will not interfere in the administration of customary land in their possession. Lands and Natural Resources Minister, Jean Kapata says government is fully aware that it only owns 10 percent of the total mass of land in the country. Ms. Kapata has since clarified that the national land titling programme ...

The Road Transport and Safety Agency (RTSA) has with immediate effect suspended the Road Service License for Mazhandu Family Bus Services pending investigations into yesterday’s accident in which 10 people died. RTSA Chief Executive Officer Zindaba Soko has told a news conference in Lusaka that the agency expects Mazhandu Family Bus Services management to put in place necessary logistics and ...

President Donald Trump has nominated Colorado federal appeals court judge Neil Gorsuch for the US Supreme Court. If confirmed by the Senate, the 49-year-old would replace the vacancy left on the court by the late Justice Antonin Scalia. The upper chamber’s Democratic leader has already said he has “very serious doubts” about the nominee. The court has the last legal ...

Arnold Schwarzenegger may have taken over for President Donald Trump on “The Celebrity Apprentice,” but he isn’t standing up for the politician these days. Arnold spoke out against President Trump’s executive order that temporarily restricts citizens from seven countries from entering the United States. “I think the real problem is that it was vetted badly,” said the 69-year-old former California ...

Tunisia coach Henryk Kasperczak has quit only days after his team’s 2-0 defeat to Burkina Faso in the African Nations Cup in Gabon. Kasperczak found the going tough when he fell to Burkina Faso in the quarter final of the 2017 Afcon despite beating both Algeria and Zimbabwe in the group stages. “I have offered my resignation and it has ...

The nearly men of African football in recent years, Ghana go into a sixth consecutive semifinal at the Cup of Nations when they face Cameroon in Franceville on Thursday. The Black Stars have not won the trophy since 1982, instead gaining a reputation for coming up just short all too often over the last decade. Avram Grant’s side lost on ...