Teachers Unions have appealed to government to fire teachers with found with fake papers. Last week, Teaching Council of Zambia revealed that close to 500 teachers in government-aided schools had forged documents. Zambia National Union of Teachers (ZNUT) Public Relations Manager Joe Kasaka has called for thorough investigations on how these teachers managed to forge their qualifications before firing them. ...

Gender Minister Victoria Kalima, says the revisiting the Marriage Act will not distort other pieces of legislation. Ms. Kalima explains that there is nothing new about the law on marriage because a child can still get married at the age of 18 with consent from the parents and can still get married at the age of 21, with or without ...

Cameroon fought back from a goal down to claim a 1-1 draw with Nigeria in a 2018 World Cup qualifier in Yaounde on Monday night. Having been thrashed 4-0 by the Super Eagles on the weekend, the stalemate provides at least some redemption for the Indomitable Lions, though their hopes of reaching Russia 2018 are all but gone. The result ...

Bafana Bafana play Cape Verde in a do-or-die match at Moses Mabhida Stadium on Tuesday in which a win will bring their Russia 2018 Fifa World Cup campaign back on track. Kick-off is at 7pm – Live on SS4 and SS10. South Africa’s chances of being among five African countries to represent the continent at football’s biggest showpiece were somewhat ...

Indian police are investigating the deaths of dozens of newborns at a hospital in Farrukhabad, Uttar Pradesh. Forty-nine children died at Ram Manohar Lohia hospital in a month, including at least 30 who are said to have died from “perinatal asphyxia”. The condition is caused by reduced oxygen levels during childbirth. In August at least 160 minors died at a ...

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is “begging for war” with his latest and most powerful nuclear bomb test, the US envoy to the United Nations has said. Nikki Haley told an emergency meeting of the Security Council in New York that America did not want a war but its patience was “not unlimited”. The US will table a new UN ...

Chilanga UPND Member of Parliament Keith Mukata and his co accused Charmaine Musonda have pleaded not guilty to a charge of murder. Mr. Mukata and Ms. Musonda are accused of murdering a security guard, Namakambwa Kwenda, on May 6, 2017. Mr. Mukata and his wife were picked up in May after a shooting incident at the law-maker’s legal firm, which ...

Nine children have been burnt to death while five others have sustained serious burns in different fire accidents in Nchelenge, Samfya, and Kawambwa districts of Luapula Province. Three Juveniles of the same family were burnt to death while another survived with multiple burns after a makeshift house they were sleeping in caught fire on Saturday at about 23:00 hours at ...

Six people have died on the spot while one died in the hospital after an accident in Kasama District of Northern Province. This was after a driver of the Mitsubishi Canter Registration number ABZ 1277 identified as Andrew Bwalya failed to negotiate the curve along Nseluka Road near the rail crossing. And Police Spokesperson Esther Katongo has confirmed the development ...

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are expecting their third child, Kensington Palace has announced. The Queen and both families are said to be “delighted with the news”. As with her previous two pregnancies, the duchess, 35, is suffering from hyperemesis gravidarum, or severe morning sickness. She will no longer carry out her planned engagement at the Hornsey Road Children’s ...