Michael Jordan has entered the billionaire boys club. Number 23 has placed on Forbes annual list of the world’s billionaires with a real-time net worth of $1 billion. The six-time champion placed at no. 1,741 and is one of the 290 new billionaires to enter this year’s list. Jordan was able to enter the billionaire rankings thanks to his Jordan deal ...

Government is concerned with the continued loss of lives especially of young people through road traffic accidents. Speaking when he officiated at the launch of the child safety programme by the Zambia Road Safety Trust (ZRST) in partnership with Puma Energy Foundation and the international road safety NGO-Amend in Lusaka this morning, Works, supply, transport and communications Minister Yamfwa Mukanga ...

Timber Producers Association of Zambia (TPAZ) says for as long as there is no proper coordination between the key stakeholders challenges being faced in the timber industry will persist. TPAZ Vice President Charles Masange has told Qfm news that there is need for timber producers, the ministry of commerce, trade and industry and the ministry of Lands to sit and ...

The Foundation for Democratic Process (FODEP) has charged that the searching, summoning and the subsequent recording of a “warn and caution” statement from the UPND president Hakainde Hichilema by the Police after an order from President Edgar Lungu is a clear testimony of the Police’s unprofessional and unethical conduct. FODEP Executive Director MacDonald Chipenzi in a statement says the argument ...

Health Minister Joseph Kasonde says construction works have commenced at only 155 sites out of the 650 health posts government has earmarked to construct countrywide. Dr. Kasonde has told Parliament in a ministerial statement that construction of substructure has been done at 78 sites awaiting the erection of prefabricated super structures. He has disclosed that prefabricated structures for 163 sites ...

United Party for National Development (UPND) President Hakainde Hichilema has called on expelled PF Chongwe Member of Parliament Silvia Masebo to join his party. Mr Hichilema says he believes Ms Masebo will make a positive contribution to the UPND. Mr Hichilema has told QFM News in a telephone interview that Ms Masebo is more than welcome to join the UPND ...

50 Cent’s relationship with boxing champion Floyd Mayweather has been a rocky one. The one time friends turned rivals have gone back-and-forth on social media, but that interaction does not prevent 50 from publicly backing Mayweather in his upcoming fight against Manny Pacquiao. 50 and G-Unit visited The Breakfast Club, and the Queens emcee discussed the highly anticipated match. “Champ’s gonna smoke ...

The trial of the man accused of planting bombs close to the finish line of the Boston Marathon two years ago is under way in the city. A federal prosecutor said in opening statements on Wednesday that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev had “murder in his heart” when he placed the bomb. Mr Tsarnaev, 21, denies more than 30 counts including using a ...

A total of 2,616 kilometers of road network had been procured under the Link Zambia-8000 road project as of December 31st 2014. Transport, Works, Supply and Communication Minister, Yamfwa Mukanga has told Parliament in a ministerial statement that out of the 2,616 kilometers, 406 kilometers had been surfaced and opened to traffic. Mr. Mukanga has further told the house that ...

A suspected gas blast at a coal mine in a rebel-held region of east Ukraine is believed to have killed some 30 miners, the rebels told the BBC. One is confirmed dead and 14 were injured at the Zasyadko mine, which saw Ukraine’s worst mine disaster nearly eight years ago when 101 were killed. Anxious relatives of miners have gathered ...