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By MICHAEL MIYOBA

AFTER going nine games without a win in the FAZ Super League, relegation-threatened Sensational Zanaco FC will seek redemption when they host rejuvenated Kansanshi Dynamos in a Week-30 fixture at Sunset Stadium in Lusaka.

The Bankers have endured a tough second round in the Super League and today’s game against Kansanshi is a do or die fixture as they fight to survive relegation.

And after starting his third stint at Zanaco with a loss to Zesco United last weekend, coach Wedson Nyirenda who replaced fired Kelvin Kaindu and Emmanuel Amunike will be hoping that his boys can rise to the occasion to get the crucial win over the Solwezi-based side who held the Bankers to a 1-1 stalemate the last time the two sides mate.

“The preparations went well. We have done all we can and we have gone through all the paces,  we have tried to rectify the mistakes that have been occurrying in our defence and also our attack we have tried to sharpen up our attack and we looking forward to getting some goals. The players have done very well they are all fit and we look set to upset the tables against Kansanshi Dynamos,” Nyirenda said.

After getting a walk over win over Buildcon last weekend, Kansanshi will fight to maintain their impressive run of three wins, one draw and one defeat in the last five games.

Meanwhile, league leaders Power Dynamos who are two wins away from scooping the league will face Nchanga Rangers test at Nchanga Stadium in Chingola.

Power dominate the Super League with 55 points, 10 points ahead of second-placed Napsa Stars. 

The Mwenya Chipepo drilled Kitwe giants will look to their lethal top man in Andy Boyeli who has proved to be a thorn in the flesh for most Super League teams. 

Boyeli inspired Power to a 3-1 win over Chambishi FC last weekend after he scored a brace to propel his goal tally to 16 goals as the league’s top scorer.

At the Levy Mwanwasa Stadium in Ndola, Forest Rangers will seek to recover from last weekend’s defeat to high flying Nkwazi FC when they host Lumwana Radiants in the second fixture of the double header at the same venue that will host the Buildcon FC versus Kabwe Warriors clash.

In other fixtures scheduled for this weekend, defending champions Red Arrows will seek solace when they host “giant Killers” Muza FC who are winless in the last three games where they have recorded two defeats and one draw.

At President Stadium in Kabwe, Prison Leopards will host Nkwazi while Green Buffaloes will seek redemption from last weekend’s 4-1 bashing to Napsa Stars when they host rejuvenated Zesco United.

Tomorrow, Super League action continues with Chambishi facing Napsa Stars in the lunch time kick off at Nkana Stadium where Nkana and Green Eagles will lock horns in the second fixture of the double header.

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By BUUMBA CHIMBULU

GOVERNMENT has resolved to lobby for flexibility from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to release the US$188 million tranche distribution following he challenges it is currently facing with official creditors for debt relief.

THE Socialist Party (SP) says the United Party for National Development (UPND) will become more violent and notorious in breaking law due to growing dissatisfaction with the ruling party by the majority of Zambians, caused by unfulfilled promises and mediocre leadership.

By GRACE CHAILE

PATRIOTS for Economic Progress (PeP) president, Sean Tembo, has filed a petition in the Constitutional Court in which he has accused President Hakainde Hichilema of allegedly perpetrating regionalism and tribalism. 

He contends that the appointments in key positions such as the Judiciary, defence and Security wings, quasi government institutions and State House are regionally biased.

Mr Tembo stated that since Mr Hichilema assumed office in 2021, he has directly or indirectly acted in a way that sought to undermine and disadvantage the Northern and Eastern regions.

He has cited the Attorney General as the respondent.

According to the petition filed into court yesterday, Mr Tembo contended that the remarks allegedly made by President Hichilema on November 7, 2021, at Kenneth Kaunda International Airport that ” a clique of thieves has been leading off public resources from independence and don’t think another person can run the country in a better way ” was demeaning to his six predecessors. 

He stated that the said statement had regional connotations and did not promote national unity and cohesion.

Mr Tembo contended that the appointments at Permanent Secretary level and quasi government institutions such as Zesco were regionally biased.

He stated that the statement issued by the Minister of Health, Ms Sylvia Masebo on February 26, 2023 that the Head of State was unable to attend the Nc’wala traditional ceremony because he risked contracting cholera was an insult to the traditional leadership. 

He said cholera was a disease associated to dirty, unsanitary and unhygienic people. Mr Tembo is seeking a declaration that the demeaning remarks by Mr Hichilema against his predecessors do not promote and achieve human dignity, non-discrimination, equality, national unity and cohesion and are in breach of Articles 8(b),8(d),91(3) (c), and 92(2) (1) of the Republican Constitution and are illegal.

He is also seeking declaration that the appointments at the Ministry of Justice, Judiciary, Permanent Secretary level, quasi government institutions and State House are divisive to the nation and calculated to promote tribalism and regionalism, which do not promote unity and cohesion.

 THE Lusaka lawyer who survived a suicide attempt after allegedly administering a poisonous substance which killed her son, aged two, told her older sister that the child drowned in a bathtub. A Judge heard yesterday that Namwene Phiri told her sister Esther Phiri that after her son drowned, she felt she had nothing to live […]

Alcohol consumption increased substantially across the United States during the COVID-19 pandemic, but the impact was greatest among American Indian and Alaska Native (AIAN) populations, where deaths from alcohol-associated liver disease were six times those of white people, according to a study by Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), a founding member of Mass General Brigham (MGB). The disproportionately high mortality rate reflects not just the pandemic, but a systemic failure of supportive health care and lack of critical resources for AIAN populations which demand urgent action by public policy leaders, the researchers reported in a study published in JAMA Health Forum.

Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine (WFIRM) scientists have created a promising injectable cell therapy to treat osteoarthritis that both reduces inflammation and also regenerates articular cartilage.

Chronic alcohol consumption may make people more sensitive to pain through two different molecular mechanisms—one driven by alcohol intake and one by alcohol withdrawal. That is one new conclusion by scientists at Scripps Research on the complex links between alcohol and pain.