The Cancer Diseases Hospital will be the end of this month conduct the first ever treatment of thyroid cancer. Thyroid cancer patients have been treated outside the country. Cancer Diseases Hospital Nuclear Medicine Specialist Dr Aubrey Musonda disclosed this when he made a presentation during a public awareness and nuclear energy workshop by Russia’s state Atomic energy corporation Rosatom in ...

Economic and Equity Party (EEP) President Chilufya Tayali has accused UPND Leader Hakainde Hichilema of receiving dubious money using his offshore accounts. Mr Hichilema has said that there is nothing illegal about him being named in the latest leak, the Paradise papers. Mr. Tayali has told a media briefing in Lusaka that the revelation by the Paradise papers vindicates him ...

President Edgar Lungu says the anchor for Zambia’s industrialisation programme is value addition. Speaking at the ‘Manufacturers meet the President seminar’, as part of this year Manufacturers’ week under the theme: “Solutions for Zambian Manufacturing”, President Lungu says there is need for the country to rise to the occasion and take keen interest in adding value to agricultural products and ...

Zimbabwe’s former Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa, who was sacked on Monday, has fled the country amid death threats, his allies say. President Robert Mugabe, 93, accuses his former deputy of plotting to take power from him. “He went to apostolic church prophets to find out when Mugabe would die. But he was told he would die first,” Mr Mugabe told supporters ...

(AllHipHop News) Beyonce’s lawyers are involved in a legal battle with a company who have applied to trademark a name very similar to her Ivy Park clothing brand. The “Sweet Dreams” singer launched her activewear clothing collection in stores and online on April 14, 2016, the same day that a company named 47/72 Inc. filed an application to trademark the ...

US President Donald Trump has urged Chinese leader Xi Jinping to “work very hard” on persuading North Korea to give up its nuclear weapons. He also said he would “not blame China” for “taking advantage” of the US, in reference to their trade deficit. He was speaking at a business leaders’ forum in Beijing, which he is visiting as part ...

(AllHipHop News) It looks like Fox is adding yet another music-themed show to its lineup. The new series 8 Count is about to join Empire and Star on the network. According to THR, the Queen of Hip-Hop Soul Mary J. Blige is executive producing and serving as music adviser for the new drama. Erika L. Johnson (Shades of Blue, Queen ...

Yemen faces the world’s largest famine in decades “with millions of victims” if aid deliveries are not resumed, a senior UN official has warned. Mark Lowcock, the UN under-secretary general for humanitarian affairs, urged the Saudi-led coalition to lift its blockade of the conflict-torn country. On Monday, the coalition shut air, land and sea routes into Yemen after Houthi rebels ...

The last burst of qualifying matches for the 2018 World Cup allows some nations a chance to dream, but for football aristocrats Italy, the next few days are a potential nightmare.The last nine places in Russia will be settled in seven frantic days starting on Thursday. There are four berths up for grabs in Europe, where the eight best runners-up ...

The Africa Consumer Unit (ACU) has called on government to pay attention to the plight of retirees by releasing grants to the Public Sector Pension Fund (PSPF). ACU First Vice President Muyunda Ililonga says the erratic and inadequate release of funds to PSPF has led to failure by the institution to timely pay retirees and other beneficiaries their lamp sum ...