Vice President Inonge Wina says making Zambia safer place requires strong disaster preparedness measures to be put in place. Speaking when she received two hundred life jackets donated to the Disaster Management and Mitigation Unit (DMMU) which falls under her office, by SINO HYDRO Zambia Limited this morning, Ms Wina notes that a number of recent reports have underscored the ...

Satirical musician Fumba Chama alias Pilato has pleaded not guilty to the charge of conduct likely to cause the breach of peace before a Lusaka Magistrate Court. Chama is alleged to have conducted himself in a manner likely to cause the breach of peace when he composed the controversial song “Alungu ana bwela”. Chama 31, a resident of Ndola who ...

Three people have been killed and five injured in a shooting incident in a village in China’s northern Hebei province, state media report. A statement by local authorities said the suspected gunman Liu Shuangrui was also killed at the scene. It said he opened fire in a village in Suning county with a double-barrelled shotgun. One police officer was among ...

Exclusive footage from Iraq’s second city of Mosul reveals how Islamic State wields power over people’s everyday life, a year after it was captured. Secretly filmed videos obtained by the BBC’s Ghadi Sary show mosques being blown up, abandoned schools, and women being forced to cover up their bodies. Residents said they were living in fear of punishment according to ...

Lil Wayne revealed last year that he was ready to break ties with his record label Cash Money. The “Rich As F*ck” rapper later filed a lawsuit against the company for unpaid royalties and record advances. Wayne has now hired Kobalt Neighbouring Rights to collect global royalty revenue on his behalf. Wayne joins fellow artists Ariana Grande, Bruno Mars, Sam Smith and Calvin Harris as ...

The Game was arrested for punching an off-duty LAPD police officer earlier this year in March. The rapper turned himself in to authorities in the afternoon and was released a couple hours after posting $50,000 bail. The 35-year-old Compton native was booked on suspicion of felony criminal threats, according to the Los Angeles Times. In March, The Game and and ...

Gaelle Enganamouit scored a hat-trick as Cameroon belied their lowly world ranking of 53rd with a commanding 6-0 victory over fellow Women’s World Cup debutants Ecuador in their Group C opener in Vancouver on Monday. Les Lionnes, who qualified for the World Cup by finishing as runners-up at last year’s African Women’s Championship, took advantage of several defensive lapses by ...

A resurgent Brazil are determined to bury the memory of last year’s traumatic World Cup campaign as they prepare to regain their crown as the kings of South American football at the Copa America. Brazil’s challenge at the World Cup on home soil was obliterated in a 7-1 semifinal mauling by eventual champions Germany, a result that was compared to ...

Mangango Member of Parliament Lyambai Lingweshi has disclosed that donors working with the community in Mangango constituency are building four secondary schools in the area under a project called village schools in Zambia. Mr. Lingweshi says this is the first time that Mangango constituency will have a secondary school. He says the development is of great joy to the people ...

Lukasha PF Member of Parliament Alfridah Kansembe says she is impressed with the progress on the construction of two high schools in her constituency. Ms Kansembe says the area has had no secondary school which made it difficult for over 150, 000 children to access secondary education. Ms Kansembe tells QFM News that the construction works at Ntumba High School ...