UNZA 'moma' dies in a traffic accident

By Staff Reporter, LUSAKA 

A University of Zambia student identified as Adessy Karen Banda has died.

She died on Thursday afternoon in a road traffic accident. 

Adessy was a model and second year student studying towards a Bachelors degree in Mass Communication. 

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Impact of improper drainages on the environment of Kantolomba compound

Kantolomba compound

By Winston Muleba JR

Kantolomba is a shanty compound located on the outskirt of Ndola district. Gethsemane Mwizabi of Times of Zambia describes Kantolomba as “a place of many contrast and contradiction. Like a rocking chair, it is a busy place. Men and women, boys and girls and children alike crowd every corner. Some lineup to draw water and others simply crowd shebeens. With high unemployment level, poverty, HIV/AIDS and teenage pregnancies, this township knew very little about development until now.”

Pupils in senior Chief Kalabamukosa’s area prefers fishing to school

Only six grade seven pupils at Musenga Primary School in senior Chief Kalabamukosa’s area in Samfya wrote their examinations last year as many of them opted to join their parents in the fish camps.

Samfya district education board secretary George Mwangula who confirmed this in an interview, said fishing has had a detrimental effect on school attendance. 

Credit: Zambia Daily Mail

Over our dead bodies, Mazabuka DC told

By Staff Reporter, MAZABUKA 

Mazabuka district commissioner Jenny Chirwa has angered councilors in Chief Mwanachingwala, by suggesting that the culverts that have been lying along the Simwaaba-Kalama road will be used on other roads where people urgently need better roads. 

Ms Chirwa told the councilors that the culverts have been left unattended to for a long time, wasting public resources. 

Malaria ravages Mukinge girls

More than half of the pupils at Mukinge Girls Mission Secondary School in Kasempa district of North-Western Province have been diagnosed and treated for malaria since schools opened in January this year. 

Mukinge Girls Mission Secondary School head teacher Dickson Mtonga said out of 732 pupils, 385 have been treated for malaria. 

Plastic bags attire subjects Zambian youth to eulogy, unpalatable language

By Staff Reporter, NDOLA 

A Zambian youth has sparked debate after appearing on social media clad in a plastic bags attire. 

Some people have described Natasha Mulenga (not real names) as a creative and innovative youth while others have described her as a mad person. 

Kasama traffic accident claims six lives

By Staff Reporter, LUSAKA 

A Toyota Corolla Registration Number ABE 608, yesterday in Kasama hit into a Tanzanian registered Volvo truck that was coming from the opposite direction. 

And Police spokesperson Charity Munganga Chanda has confirmed that six people in a Corrolla died on the spot.