Chief Macha of the Tonga speaking people in Choma District has encouraged fellow traditional leaders not to give up in their quest to improve hygiene and sanitation in their chiefdoms. Chief Macha says it is gratifying that Zambia through the House of Chiefs has been conferred with the 2015 local government leadership award by the Africa sanitation conference which was ...

Youth and Sport Permanent Secretary, Agnes Musunga has disclosed that the draft national youth empowerment action plan is now awaiting the final approval by Cabinet. Ms. Musunga says government is optimistic that once the action plan which it has developed in collaboration with the Africa Development Bank, International Labour Organization and the GIZ of German, is approved it will provide ...

Government has been challenged to tell the nation how monies allocated to the constitution making process in the budget have been utilized before allocating more funds to the process in the 2016 National Budget. Foundation for Democratic Process (FODEP) Executive Director MacDonald Chipenzi says while monies have been allocated towards the constitution making process, no results have been seen of ...

Political analyst Neo Simutanyi has observed that time is now right for Zambia to enact a law to control political party campaign financing. Dr. Simutanyi says this law whose enactment he personally supports should provide that government be the one to fund political party campaigns during elections. He has told Qfm News in an interview that this law should further ...

FKA twigs has FINALLY confirmed her engagement to Robert Pattinson. News that the Twilight hunk had popped the question to the quirky singer was leaked by T-Pain on April Fool’s day. The rapper revealed in an interview: “She’s engaged now… to ol’ Patty. I don’t know if she wanted anybody to know that …” Even though he later backtracked on ...

Former Fifa vice-president Jack Warner has said in a TV address that he will reveal all he knows about corruption at world football’s governing body. Mr Warner, who said he feared for his life, also said he could link Fifa officials to general elections in his native Trinidad and Tobago in 2010. He is one of the 14 people charged ...

Juventus on Thursday ruled key defender Giorgio Chiellini out of the Champions League final against Barcelona after he suffered a muscle tear in training. Chiellini had to leave training on Wednesday and scans on Thursday confirmed the bad news for the Italian champions. “The scan revealed a first grade tear of the soleus muscle in his left leg, meaning the ...

Transparency International Zambia (TIZ) has welcomed the decision the Supreme Court’s decision to uphold the conviction of former Labour Minister Austin Liato and his two year sentence with hard labour. TIZ Executive Director Goodwell Lungu says the proceeds of crime Act of 2010 has now been authenticated with Mr Liato’s conviction, in that it was a new law which was ...

Police in Lusaka have arrested a 28 year old man of Old Kanyama Compound for allegedly defiling his 13 year-old-niece. Police Spokesperson Charity Munganga Chanda says the incident occurred on 3rd June, 2015 around 08:00 at the suspect’s place. Ms Chanda says the incident happened after the suspect met with the victim who was coming from school and requested her ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) says scaling up proven pneumonia and diarrhea interventions such as introduction of pneumococcal and rotavirus vaccine can end under-five mortality attributable to pneumonia and diarrhea by 2025. Speaking during the launch of the first round of child health week in Lusaka’s Kalingalinga Compound today, WHO Regional Director Matshidiso Moeti says the goal though ambitious is ...