THE Engineering Institution of Zambia (EIZ) has warned that it will not hesitate to deregister any member or engineering firm found guilty of doing shoddy work.

MAMBWE District deputy council secretary Willy Phiri on Tuesday testified in court that the Tindi chiefdom was abolished by the colonial government in 1948 before Zambia attained independence.

UNITED Party for National Development (UPND) members of Parliament (MPs) have challenged their Namwala counterpart Robby Chizyuka to resign from the party and prove his popularity by re-contesting the parliamentary seat.

FORMER State House special assistant for Press and public relations, John Musukuma will be put to rest at Mutumbi Cemetery in Lusaka today.

THE current fuel crisis in the country has not affected the mining sector, Chamber of Mines president Nathan Chishimba has said.

ZAMBIA Episcopal Conference (ZEC) president Bishop George Lungu has commended President Rupiah Banda for visiting him in Italy where he was hospitalised.

THE European Union (EU) will provide 475 million euros for the support to national projects in Zambia over a period of six years, EU acting head of delegation, Francesca Di Mauro has said.

FIRST Quantum Minerals, owners of Kansanshi Mine and Bwana Mkubwa, have announced copper production of 93,500 tonnes for the third quarter and 275,300 for the first nine months of 2009.

PRESIDENT Rupiah Banda has said he has no intentions of replacing Vice-President George Kunda with United Liberal Party (ULP) president Sakwiba Sikota as reported in some sections of the media.

Persistent shortage of petrol in Zambia has taken a political twist with opposition political leaders heaping the blame on the government and President Rupiah Banda.

The district of Zumbo, in the western Mozambican province of Tete, will soon start receiving electricity from neighbouring Zambia under an agreement reached between the two countries.

THE current fuel shortage in many parts of Zambia has no doubt negatively affected daily routines at different levels.

THE Government has commenced investigations to establish the continued shortage of fuel in Lusaka and other parts of the country even after offloading sufficient stocks on the market.

THE Zambia Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ZACCI) has advised the Government to look for a strategic partner to run Indeni Oil Refinery once it obtains 100 per cent shares in the plant.

ONLY 83 out of more than 400 anti-retroviral therapy (ART) centres in the country are accredited by the Medical Council of Zambia (MCZ), registrar Mary Zulu has said.

SOME illegal squatters have turned the stalls at the Provincial Agriculture and Commercial Show grounds in Chipata into residential houses.

SOLWEZI Municipal Council has presented its proposed 2010 budget with an expenditure of about K25 billion, up from K24 billion approved this year.

THE Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA) Zambia yesterday said it was devastated by the death of former State House special assistant for Press and public relations, John Musukuma.

FORMER secretary to the treasury, Benjamin Mweene yesterday told a Lusaka magistrates' court that it should find him innocent because the charges against him are false.

FORMER Defence minister and Kafulafuta Member of Parliament (MP) George Mpombo yesterday dared the MMD to expel him, promising to give the ruling party a tough time in a by-election.