Selena Gomez’s Instagram was swiftly taken down on Monday after several nude photos of Justin Bieber were posted on her account. Gomez was hacked, Variety has confirmed, but she has since re-secured her account. Variety has reached out to her rep for comment. Gomez’s Instagram was back online minutes after it was taken down, with the nude photos deleted. The singer is ...

Advocacy against Child Abuse and Gender Based Violence has expressed concern over the rise in emotional abuse in marriages in the country. Advocacy Executive Director Bellion Chola has explained that emotional abuse is where a partner is busy chatting with other people outside marriage so as to play with their partner’s emotions. Mr. Chola says this is also contributing to ...

After dropping the music video for her latest single during the 2017 Video Music Awards, Taylor Swift’s “Look What You Made Me Do” has already shattered a viewership record on YouTube. According to ABC, the macabre and self-aware music video beat the record for most-viewed video in a 24-hour period. In fact, the outlet notes that Swift’s video took less than the full ...

National Union of Miners and Allied Workers President James Chansa is optimistic that the continued increase in the price of copper on the international market will result in positive and speedy negotiations for workers’ improved conditions of service which commence in October this year. Mr. Chansa says 2015 and 2016 where not good years for workers in the mining industry ...

Electoral Expert MacDonald Chipenzi has urged the Electoral Commission of Zambia (ECZ) to strictly enforce the Electoral Code of Conduct in the districts and wards where by-elections will be held on Sept 14, 2017. Mr. Chipenzi says reports of District Commissioners’ involvement and use of government resources are disturbing, and that the Commission should censure such acts. He says it ...

The Civil Society for poverty Reduction (CSPR) has urged President Edgar Lungu to come up with a strong position on the electricity impasse between Mopani Copper Mines and Copperbelt Energy Corporation that will benefit the workers. CSPR Executive Director Patrick Nshindano says while President Lungu’s directive to the Ministers of Energy and Mines to engage the mining company and CEC ...

The Zambia Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ZACCI) has noted the need for government to create an enabling environment for small scale farmers to thrive and contribute to the positive development of the agricultural sector. ZACCI president Michael Nyirenda has noted with concern how most policies and initiatives government has come up with are mostly beneficial to commercial farmers in ...

Bafana Bafana rounded off their single training session at Nike Centre in Soweto on Monday afternoon which was attended by all local-based players ahead of Friday’s Fifa World Cup qualifier against Cape Verde. The team leaves for the Atlantic Ocean Island on Tuesday morning and are expected to arrive at around 8pm the same day. The Monday proceedings were presided ...

North Korea has fired a missile over northern Japan in a move Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe called an “unprecedented” threat to his country. The missile, launched early on Tuesday Korean time, flew over Hokkaido island before crashing into the sea. The UN Security Council is expected to hold an emergency meeting in response. North Korea has conducted a flurry of ...

First National Bank (FNB) Zambia has reaffirmed its commitment to helping create a better Zambia. In a speech read on her behalf by Brand and Communications Specialist Luke Njovu during the handover of a K15, 000 cheque towards the training of 300 women in partnership with KUPEZ young women’s network ,FNB head strategic marketing and communications, Clotilda Mulenga said the ...