Daily Archives: February 2, 2015

Lungu encouraged to adopt proactive policies

National Alliance for Citizens Participation (NAPC) has encouraged President Edgar Lungu to adopt proactive and ambitious policies in order to lift the majority Zambians out of poverty. Alliance General Secretary Kelvin Chitala in a statement to QFM News says President Lungu should consider investing in high productive and labour intensive sectors such as agriculture, construction, textiles and tourism so that ...

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MoF saddened by passing of Freddie Kwesiga

The Ministry of Finance has expressed its deepest sorrow on the passing of Dr. Freddie Kwesiga, who was the African Development Bank’s Resident Representative to Zambia, who died after short illness in Nairobi where he had travelled for medical treatment. Finance Minister Alexander Chikwanda says during the six years of service in Zambia, Dr. Kwesiga has been instrumental in leading ...

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Alleged defiling of ailing daughter by father shocks ZNWL

The Zambia National Women’s Lobby (ZNWL) has expressed shock at the news of a man who was arrested for allegedly defiling his ailing daughter while he nursed her at the University Teaching Hospital. ZNWL Board Chairperson Beauty Katebe says the news has left her organisation in a state of bewilderment as such an occurrence is too inhuman to be true. ...

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LAZ, ABZ welcome appointment of Mambilima as CJ

The Law Association of Zambia (LAZ) says the appointment of Justice Ireen Mambilima as Chief Justice will go a long way in restoring public confidence in the judiciary. In a statement to QFM News welcoming the appointment of Justice Mambilima as Chief Justice by President Edgar Lungu subject to Parliamentary ratification, LAZ President George Chisanga says the appointment if ratified ...

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Lungu ropes in Mwanakatwe, Sata

President Edgar Lungu has nominated former Barclays Bank Zambia Managing Director Margret Mwanakatwe as Member of Parliament and appointed her Commerce, Trade and Industry Minister. President Lungu has also nominated Lusaka Mayor Mulenga Sata as Member of Parliament and appointer him Deputy Minister at State House. The appointments are with immediate effect. President Lungu has also appointed Mr Boniface Chimbwali ...

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Sculptures ‘may be by Michelangelo’

Bronze sculptures ‘may be by Michelangelo’ Two obscure bronze sculptures may actually be by Michelangelo, a team of international researchers believes. If the attribution is correct, the works will be the only surviving Michelangelo bronzes in the world. The sculptures, of naked, muscular men riding on panthers, had been attributed to Michelangelo in the 19th Century but that theory had ...

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Greste ‘angst’ for jailed colleagues

Al-Jazeera journalist Peter Greste says he is relieved to be free, but feels “incredible angst” at leaving behind two of his colleagues in jail in Egypt. Mr Greste was freed from prison and deported on Sunday, after 400 days behind bars. He is now in Cyprus, en route to Australia. Mr Greste, Mohamed Fahmy and Baher Mohamed were arrested in ...

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LuSE market capitalization increases by 14%

Market capitalization for the Lusaka Stock Exchange (LuSE) at end of the 2014 increased by 14 percent from K58, 187 recorded in 2013 to K66, 456. The market turnover on an annual basis also increased by 421.34 percent from K 211,291,942 as at 31st December 2013 to K1,101,542,932 as at 31st December, 2014. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Acting Secretary ...

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Bear the consequences of your actions,Mulongoti tells political ‘rebels’

People’s Party President Mike Mulongoti says members of political parties who endorsed the candidature of their rival parties in the just ended presidential election should bear the consequences of their actions. Mr Mulongoti has told QFM News that politicians should learn to be loyal to their political parties regardless of what their parties are going through. He says it is ...

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Justice Mambilima’s appointment cheers women’s Lobby

The Zambia National Women’s Lobby (ZNWL) is elated that President Edgar Chagwa Lungu has yet again elevated another woman to a key decision making position, barely a week in his office. ZNWL Board Chairperson Beauty Katebe says her organisation thanks President Lungu for appointing Justice Irene Mambilima as the Chief Justice and urge him to continue on this path of ...

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