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Combining artificial intelligence (AI) systems for short- and long-term breast cancer risk results in an improved cancer risk assessment, according to a study published in Radiology.

GOVERNMENT has described claims by Socialist Party leader Fred M’membe alleging foreign influence in the SADC Electoral Observation Mission (SEOM) preliminary report on the recent Zimbabwean elections as unfounded. Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Stanley Kakubo said casting assertions that President Hichilema or any other person could have influenced the outcome of the […]

In a review published in the open access journal BMJ Open Trinity researchers, led by Dr. Julie Broderick, head of discipline of physiotherapy, school of medicine, have presented findings showing that Irish Travellers suffer a disproportionate burden of physical health conditions with common conditions like metabolic syndrome, asthma, bronchitis, and tuberculosis 2–3 times more prevalent in Travellers compared to the general Irish population.

By GRACE CHAILE

THE Lusaka High Court has ordered the State to pay Horizon Education Trust Limited K45 million, being compensation for the compulsory acquisition of the school now Kabulonga Trust Schools.

This is according to a judgement on assessment rendered by High Court District Registrar, Ms Musonda Mwandira, on August 23, 2023.

In this matter, Horizon Education Trust Limited, citing the Attorney General as respondent, sought an order of certiorari to quash the decision by Government to compulsorily acquire stand number KABUL/N_59565/196 in Kabulonga, known then as Horizon School.

It was agreed by both parties that Government would compensate for all the unexhausted improvements and movable properties that the respondent (State) had taken over and that in default of agreement, the compensation shall be referred for assessment.

In 2021, Horizon Education Trust School applied in the Lusaka High Court for an order of assessment of compensation to ascertain the amount Government has to pay for immovable and movable properties after taking over the school.

This followed the consent judgement ordering Government to compensate Horizon.

In their submissions, they pleaded with the court to order the state to compensate them K68 million for the immovable property and US$377, 000 for the movable assets.

The State however argued that the market value for the properties was K18 million.

Ms Mwandira , however said the K18 million as the market value was not adequate to (GC1) be a representation of the fair and reasonable market value of the property in issue as contemplated by Lands Acquisition Act.

“While I am fully aware that the land in issue belongs to the Republic of Zambia, I took full cognisance of the improvements that added value to the property and the quality of the structures and fittings as I perceived them. In my own analysis the market value of the property cannot be less than K45, 000, 000. I therefore find that the adequate compensation of property of that magnitude at market value should be K45, 000 ,000,” she said. She granted the Attorney General  Mulilo Kabesha leave to appeal if dissatisfied with the decision.

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By LUCY PHIRI 

FORMER Zambia Revenue Authority Commissioner General Kingsley Chanda yesterday pleaded not guilty to 22 counts of willful failure to comply with procedure relating to 22 motor vehicles.

This was after the state substituted the indictment following the courts order at the last sitting. 

The court had ordered the state to drop the charge of abuse of authority and amend the indictment.

Chanda is charged with former Zambia Revenue Authority director administration Callistus Kaoma in all 22 counts.

In count one to three, it is alleged that Chanda and Kaoma, between January 1, 2017 and December 31, 2020, in Lusaka, being public officers namely, commissioner general and director administration respectively, at Zambia Revenue Authority, a public body, did wilfully fail to comply with the applicable law and procedure relating to the disposal of property in the manner they disposed a motor vehicle namely, Mitsubishi Pajero bearing registration number ABK 6092, ABF 8339 and ABF 3858, the property of ZRA.

In count four to eight, it is alleged that Chanda and Kaoma, during the same timeframe, did wilfully fail to comply with the applicable law and procedure relating to the disposal of property in the manner they disposed a motor vehicle namely, Nissan Hardbody bearing registration number ABL 6927, Nissan Tiida bearing registration number ABV 5918 Toyota Corolla bearing registration number ABZ 7209 and a Mitsubishi Pajero registration number ABL 3850, the property of ZRA.

When the matter came up for possible plea, magistrate Silvia Munyinya read out the charges to which the duo denied.

Trial commences on September 25, 2023.

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Wheat, barley and rye contain a protein that can produce severe intestinal symptoms in people with celiac disease, and a team of scientists at Columbia University in New York has now identified distinct signatures of immune system cells that drive the disorder.

By NATION REPORTER 

ZESCO Limited has announced the reintroduction of electricity connection subsidy which will pave way for 8, 300 new connections broken down as 7, 800 for households and 500 small scale enterprises, countrywide that will done on first come first serve basis.

In a statement, Zesco Managing Director Victor Mapani says the subsidy which will be available on a first come first serve basis was targeting about 7,800 households and 500 small medium enterprises countrywide.

Mr. Mapani said the subsidised connections form part of the Electricity Service Access Project (ESAP), a government initiative whose purpose is to increase access to electricity specifically for the rural populations.

He said the Rural Electrification Authority (REA) and Zesco had been tasked to be the main project execution agency so that as many as possible households could be connected to the national grid.

Mr. Mapani explained that at its inception in 2017, part of the ESAP component received US$26.5 million funding from the World Bank and had an initial connection target of 22, 000 low income households and 1, 000 small medium enterprises in five years.

He said at the close of this component in June 2022, a total of 58, 411 electricity connections were made countrywide.

And Mr. Mapani has said in the current project, which would be conducted on a first come first serve basis, connections would be ceased once the targeted number was achieved.

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By ROGERS KALERO

MANAGEMENT at the Copperbelt University (CBU) in Kitwe has expelled the Copperbelt University Student Union (COBUSU) president Castro Mulilo for boycotting classes to mourn a death of two students in the road traffic accident in June this year.

The two engineering students died after a speeding vehicle hit them as they left the campus for their boarding houses a situation which led to the students running amok destroying public and private property at the university.

According to the expulsion letter signed by CBU Acting Registrar Jerous Ngulube, Mr Mulilo has been expelled for boycotting classes to mourn the two students.

The expulsion follows a disciplinary hearing held on August 14, in accordance with the Dean of Students’ Disciplinary procedure where he was summoned to appear before the Dean of Students ‘ Leaders Ad hoc Disciplinary Committee to answer charges of boycotting classes among other things

Mr Mulilo said management had expelled him as a result of him cancelling classes when the two students died.

He has however described the move by management as unfair and said he would appeal the decision.

Mr Mulilo who is in his final year and  pursuing Transport and Logistics said he made the decision to boycott classes because the students had vowed not to attend classes to mourn their fellow students and give them a befitting send off.

He said he had a tough time to ensure sanity at the institution prevailed and made a decision to cancel classes, which was acknowledged by management through a letter to the students that there would be no classes after granting two days of institutional mourning.

BACK-to-back losses have seen Super League side Nkana press the panic button, sending their coach Beston Chambeshi on administrative leave in a desperate bid to save their season. Nkana have started their campaign in reverse, losing by a similar score of 1–0 to Red Arrows and Mutondo Stars in Weeks One and Two, respectively, something […]

By GRACE CHAILE

THE Drug Enforcement Commission (DEC) has submitted to the Lusaka High Court that the foreign nationals linked to the raging gold and US$5.7 million cash scandal have been uncooperative during investigations.

DEC senior investigations officer in charge at Kenneth Kaunda International Airport (KKIA), Ian Chimbwali said the delay in presenting the foreign suspects to court was because of their obstinate attitude towards investigations while the four Zambian suspects have been cooperative.

 He said Ali Abdulla Ali Al-Safi, a St Kitts and Nevis national, Egyptian Noha Salaheldin Aly Nadim, David De La Cruz Castilla from Spain and Dutch national Teunis De Mooij were on August 18, 2023, warned and cautioned but they refused to be charged and arrested.

Mr Chimbwali said on the same day August 18, 2023, Al-Safi suspiciously fell ill and was taken to hospital, therefore he and other eight suspects could not be charged.

“That the applicants have generally been uncooperative as regards the procedures of being charged,” he said.

The investigations officer also submitted that the other delay was because the Prosecutors were attending the National inaugural prosecutors’ conference and a memo by the Chief Justice to allow adjournments of all matters involving the prosecutors was circulated in that regard.

Mr Chimbwali said this in an affidavit in opposition to the application for issue of writ of habeas corpus ad subjiciendum.

The four alleged to be detained at Chelstone Police Station argued their fundamental and constitutional guaranteed rights to freedom and liberty are being blatantly violated and unfairly prejudiced.

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