Forum for Democracy and Development (FDD) President Edith Nawakwi has bemoaned the poor state of the Great East Road in Eastern province. Ms Nawakwi who was in Chipata recently has told Qfm News the Great East Road in the area has now become a sorry sight. She has wondered why the road is still in a poor state when rehabilitations ...

Police in Mbala have arrested a 41 year old teacher of Chila Primary School for swindling 96 unsuspecting job seekers of K87,000. Police have since charged the suspected with obtaining money by false pretence. Police sources told ZANIS in Mbala that the named school teacher was nabbed on Saturday night at a Guest house with a list of names of ...

  Republican President Edgar Lungu says there is need to help women have access to financial services. President Lungu says government will always support creative ideas aimed at supporting the growth of the country’s economy. He says there is also need to ensure that women who he says are marginalized are helped achieve their goals by involving them in the ...

All People’s Congress (APC) President Nason Msoni has charged that it will take a miracle for the Patriotic Front to win the 2016 tripartite election. Mr Msoni says this is considering the prevailing economic situation in the country. He notes that the concept of governance has been misplaced by the Patriotic Front (PF) government after the death of President Michael ...

Policy Monitoring and Research Centre (PMRC) says tariff reform is a key requirement not only for improving the financial standing of energy enterprises in Zambia, but also for attracting both investors and private sector involvement in energy development. PMRC Executive Director Bernadette Deka in a statement says government should establish a feed-in tariff policy, were it sets prices for different ...

The Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI) has dismissed assertions that its perceived lukewarm criticism of government is because it receives part of its funding from the government. YALI Governance advisor Isaac Mwanza says his organization is not aware of any civil society organization in the country that is receiving double funding from donors and government. In an interview with Qfm ...

Patriotic Front Secretary General Davies Chama says the adoption of President Edgar Lungu as the PF presidential candidate in the 2016 elections was done within the confines of the party constitution. Mr Chama has since advised PF members harboring presidential ambitions to wait for 2019 when the party will go for to the next general conference to elect a new ...

Oscar-winning actor Mel Gibson has been accused of pushing a female photographer in Sydney. The Daily Telegraph’s Kristi Miller told Australian media she was pushed and verbally abused while taking pictures of Gibson and his girlfriend. She alleges Gibson’s tirade ended when his partner, 24-year-old US equestrian vaulter Rosalind Ross, intervened. “I thought he was going to punch me in ...

Usain Bolt has described his World Championships 100m final victory over Justin Gatlin as the “hardest race” of his career. The Jamaican, 29, lived up to his billing as the saviour of athletics as he held off the challenge of the two-time drug cheat to win in 9.79 seconds. Pre-race favourite Gatlin had to settle for silver in Beijing. “Coming ...

Islamic State militants have destroyed Palmyra’s ancient temple of Baalshamin, Syrian officials and activists say. Syria’s head of antiquities was quoted as saying the temple was blown up on Sunday. The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reported that it happened a month ago. IS took control of Palmyra in May, sparking fears the group might demolish the Unesco ...