Does cognitive function after retirement differ across race and sex?

A study published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society found that immediately after retirement, white adults tended to experience a significant decline in cognitive function, whereas Black adults experienced minimal cognitive decline. White men showed the steepest post-retirement cognitive decline across sex/race combinations, whereas Black women showed the least decline.

State witness discredits own report in Malanji’s US$4.6m case

By NATION REPORTER

A STATE witness has discredited his own report in which he had alleged that former Foreign Affairs Minister Joseph Malanji had carried bags of money amounting to US$4.6 million meant for the purchase of a Chancery for the Zambian Embassy in Ankara, Turkey.

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Zambian dies on Ethiopian airlines plane

A SIXTY-NINE-YEAR-OLD Zambian man of Riverside area in Kitwe has died on an Ethiopian Airlines plane while traveling from Chicago, USA, through Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, to Ndola. The deceased identified as Joseph Phiri, had traveled to the USA for further medical treatment arranged by his son based in Chicago. According to the deceased man’s wife, […]

How effective is Functional Family Therapy for addressing youth behavior problems?

Functional Family Therapy is a family-based intervention for youth with behavior problems, and although it’s been implemented in 45 states in the U.S and in nine other high-income countries, a recent analysis of published and unpublished studies found that the therapy is not consistently more or less effective than other treatments, including various forms of individual, family, and group interventions.

MUZ DEMANDS CONDITIONS 

By SHARON ZULU

THE Mineworkers Union of Zambia (MUZ) has challenged Government to publish the conditions of the agreement on which Vedanta Resources has been re-engaged as the 80 percent majority shareholder at Konkola Copper Mines (KCM).

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LUSAKA CLEANED

…as a combined team of the Zambia Police, LCC police move to demolish thousands of makeshift stands, to the shock of vendors most of whom were left wailing

By NATION REPORTER 

THERE was moaning and wailing in the Central Business District of Lusaka yesterday after a combined team of the Zambia Police and the Lusaka City Council police moved to demolish thousands of makeshift trading stands for the street vendors.

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Officer pleads guilty to being drunk on duty, as he awaits his fate from Police Service Commission

A PARAMILITARY officer who was found dead drunk at Chris Corner in Chilenje has pleaded guilty to being drunk on duty before a tribunal. And woodlands police station have formally arrested and charged Constable Emmanuel Mukande aged 37 of Para-military Battalion for the offence of failing to secure a firearm. The officer committed the offence […]