New Labour party president Fresher Siwale who has been in incarceration for about 30-days after failing to meet his bail conditions in the matter in which he is charged with defamation of the President has been granted a fresh K25, 000 bail in his own recognizance with two working sureties in the like sum from reputable working institutions. This was after his lawyer Keith Mweemba, applied for ...

Lusaka based businessman Hendrix Nyambe has pleaded not guilty to one count of theft involving white maize valued at K656, 040. Mr. Nyambe who is accused of stealing 31, 040 kilograms of maize belonging to opposition ADD president Charles Milupi, took plea before chief resident magistrate Nsunge Chanda. And Magistrate Chanda has granted Mr. Nyambe a 30, 000 cash bail ...

The Lusaka Magistrate has sentenced a Zambeef employee to 5-years simple imprisonment for stealing over K1 million from her employer. Carol Tembo who was a cashier at Novatek,  a subsidiary of  Zambeef  was charged with  six counts of theft by a servant which occurred between 17th October and 1st November 2017. When the matter came up for judgment before Magistrate Felix ...

Everton forward Wayne Rooney will break from his family holiday to travel to Washington this week to meet bosses at Major League Soccer side DC United, his spokesman confirmed on Wednesday. Rooney has reportedly agreed “in principle” to a $17 million deal with the MLS club that would see the 32-year-old leave Everton, his boyhood club, just 12 months after ...

Arsenal announced former Paris Saint-Germain coach Unai Emery as their new boss on Wednesday, handing him the daunting task of revitalising a club that has slipped well behind their Premier League rivals. The Spaniard, who won the domestic treble with PSG this season, emerged as the shock favourite to replace Arsene Wenger earlier this week after it had appeared former ...

Over 74.2 million United States dollars is required in 2018 to address the critical needs of Congolese refugees in Zambia. And Government estimates the number of refugees coming from the Democratic Republic of Congo will exceed 76,000 by 31st December, 2018. Speaking during the launch of the Regional Refugee Response Plan in Lusaka, Home Affairs Minister Steven Kampyongo appealed to ...

For Gwen Stefani, her new Las Vegas residency is a lifesaver. That is because the consistent Vegas shows allow Stefani, 48, to live the rest of her life. “As a mom, if you look at my touring for the last ten years, I haven’t really toured,” she told journalist Allison Kugel. “I toured for seven years and it’s hard with the ...

Solo is, of course, a film named after one person, the infamous smuggler and all round scoundrel Han Solo. So it was always inevitable that the movie would to a greater extent focus on the male character at its centre. But Emilia Clarke was determined to ensure that that didn’t mean that the film’s main female character Qi’ra would end ...

The funeral of a Pakistani student killed in last week’s Texas school shooting has taken place in Karachi. Sabika Sheikh, who was 17, was among the eight students and two teachers killed in the attack in Santa Fe. Her body was flown back to Pakistan on Wednesday. Senior politicians were among hundreds at the funeral. The gunman, identified as 17-year-old ...

The US state department has urged its staff in China to alert them to any abnormal hearing or vision issues after one employee reported mystery symptoms. The person experienced “subtle and vague, but abnormal, sensations of sound and pressure”, a statement said. The US previously said its diplomats in Cuba had suffered similar symptoms after suspected sonic attacks. China-US relations ...