The Zambia Police Service has denied the opposition UPND a permit to hold countrywide demonstrations today over the constitution making process. But the UPND has vowed to go ahead with their planned demonstration in Lusaka today at 14hrs. UPND Demonstration Coordinator Chisankama Mudenda has told journalists in Lusaka that the party does not need a Police permit to air out ...

The Grand Coalition for a people driven constitution has charged that Zambians have lost confidence in the ability of government to enact a good constitution. The Coalition has since challenged government to come clean on the constitution making process in view of this lost confidence by the Zambian people. Grand Coalition Chairperson Father Leonard Chiti has told a media briefing ...

United Party for National Development (UPND) President Hakainde Hichilema this morning failed to show up at Kabwata Police Station where he had been summoned to appear for breaching the Public Order Act following his continued tours of compounds and markets in Lusaka. Lusaka Province Police Commissioner Charity Katanga says does not know why Mr Hichilema failed to show up at ...

Drake is showing love to his “adopted home” this Memorial Day once again for the second annual “Houston Appreciation Weekend” (HAW). This year’s festivities will include a celebrity charity softball game to benefit the Houston Astros’ Urban Youth Academy. “Drake has a deep passion for working with underprivileged, handicapped, and terminally ill youth,” states HAW event coordinator DeRonica Horn, CEO of ...

Barcelona do not know how long Luis Suarez will be out for after the forward injured his left hamstring. The club confirmed Suarez will undergo physiotherapy on the injury and that the “˜evolution of his treatment’ will be determined when he has returned to training. Suarez was taken off early in the Champions League semi-final second leg against Bayern Munich ...

More than 600 migrants from Bangladesh and Myanmar stranded at sea have landed in Indonesia’s Aceh province, after being rescued by local fishing boats. Thousands of migrants, mainly from the Rohingya Muslim minority in Myanmar, are thought to be at sea after being abandoned by people smugglers. About 2,000 of them came ashore in Aceh earlier this week and are ...

DAVID Beckham may have earned himself international success, but the former England captain will never forget his East End roots. The dad-of-four took to Instagram today with an emotional trip down memory lane as he tucked into some traditional London food. David, 40, admitted that the meal reminded him of his grandad Joseph, who passed away in 2009. With cafe-style ...

Some of the leaders of a failed coup against Burundi’s president have been arrested, reports say. It is not clear if their leader, Gen Godefroid Niyombare, is among them. Gen Niyombare, who launched the coup attempt on Wednesday, told the AFP agency: “I hope they won’t kill us.” Another of the renegade generals admitted earlier that the attempt to overthrow ...

President Edgar Lungu has been urged to always be mindful that he is in office to serve the interests of the Zambian people. Political activist Dante Saunders tells QFM News that the abrupt decisions such as the increase of fuel prices by government do not serve the interests of the people. Mr. Saunders says President Lungu should take time to ...

Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard hopes to “keep it together” when he bids farewell to his beloved Anfield on Saturday. This weekend’s Premier League match at home to Crystal Palace will mark the 34-year-old midfielder’s final match in front of the Kop before he joins LA Galaxy once the season ends. “I don’t know how emotional it will be,” said former ...