The National Union for Miners and Allied Workers has applauded Mopani Copper Mines and Copperbelt Energy Corporation for reaching an agreement with Copperbelt Energy Corporation (CEC) culminating in the full restoration of power supply to the mine, and save close to 5000 jobs. CEC, which buys power from ZESCO and sells it to the mines, cut supply to Mopani to ...

Independent Churches of Zambia Board Chairperson Bishop David Masupa has praised UPND Leader Hakainde Hichilema for his commitment to dialogue. Bishop Masupa says this is a true characteristic of Christianity. And Bishop Masupa says the impending dialogue should bring out issues that could have led to misunderstandings from the start. He states that if the disputes arose as a result ...

Movement for National Transformation (MNT) president Daniel Shimunza has called on government to seriously consider re-introducing windfall tax in view of the recent happenings in the mining sector. Mr. Shimunza has also noted the need for the country to come up with a strong mining policy. He has wondered why it had to take the head of the state to ...

Premier League champions Chelsea completed a challenging transfer window on Friday by bringing in England midfielder Danny Drinkwater from Leicester City and Italy right-back Davide Zappacosta from Torino. Chelsea manager Antonio Conte saw moves for several targets fail to come off over the course of the transfer window, but has managed to boost his squad ahead of his side’s Champions ...

Philippe Coutinho shrugged off his transfer disappointment with a goal as Brazil beat Ecuador to guarantee top spot in South America’s 2018 World Cup qualifying race on Thursday while Chile and Argentina stumbled once more. Liverpool star Coutinho, who had seen his hopes of a dream move to Barcelona dashed earlier Thursday as the transfer window slammed shut with no ...

Chloe Bennet, who stars in TV series Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD, has said she had to change her name from Chloe Wang in order to make it in Hollywood. The actress praised Ed Skrein for recently pulling out of Hellboy. His casting had been criticised for “whitewashing” the original character, who is of Asian heritage. She told an Instagram follower ...

The UK must not allow itself to be blackmailed by the EU over its Brexit “divorce bill” in order to start trade talks, International Trade Secretary Liam Fox has said. He said a bad Brexit deal would damage both British and European companies. Businesses have become impatient with the slow progress of the Brexit negotiations, he added. The latest Brexit ...

The White House will ask Congress for emergency funding to help those affected by Hurricane Harvey. “The American people are with you,” Vice-President Mike Pence said during a visit to Texas. “We will be here every day until this city and this state and this region rebuild bigger and better than ever before,” he said. President Trump is expected to ...