Republican President Edgar Lungu has asked party members that are wishing the ruling Patriotic Front (PF) defeat in the 2016 general elections to leave the party. President Lungu has particularly advised party members that are criticizing him and his administration to get out and join their company whom he has referred to as losers. He says if such members think that ...

Andy Murray has beaten veteran hardcourt specialist Mardy Fish to secure his place in the third round of the Cincinnati Masters. Britain’s Murray, 28, continued his preparations for the US Open at the end of the month with a 6-4 7-6 (7-1) win over the 33-year-old American. The Scot will now face Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov in the next round. Murray ...

Australian actor Maggie Kirkpatrick has been found guilty by a court in Melbourne of sexually abusing a girl under 14 in 1984. Kirkpatrick, aged 74 and one of the stars of 1980s Australian TV drama Prisoner Cell Block H, had denied charges of gross indecency. But the court ruled she had abused the girl at her home in Prahan, Victoria. ...

Monday’s bombing in Thailand was “unlikely” to have been the work of an international terror group, the Thai government has said. Col Winthai Suvaree, a spokesman for the ruling military junta, said this was the preliminary conclusion reached by investigators. The attack on the Erawan Shrine in central Bangkok on Monday evening killed 20 people and injured scores. Police say ...

Ninety five (95) percent of the road works under phase 1 of the rehabilitation of Mongu urban townships roads and the added 3 kilometers of the road network have been done. Interview with QFM News, Mongu municipal council public officer Lusale Kaseba says all the asphalt works will be completed by the end of the week. Ms. Kaseba says this ...

Luapula Member of Parliament Emerine Kabanshi says infrastructure development in the new District Lunga under her constituency falls is taking shape. Ms. Kabanshi says infrastructure has now started taking shape three years after the area was declared a District by late Republican President Michael Sata. She has told Qfm News in an interview that this is coupled by the many ...

The Zambia National Farmers Union (ZNFU) has described as a move in the right direction the announcement by President Edgar Lungu that the maize floor price will be revised upwards from the initial K70 announced by the Food Reserve Agency to K75 for a 50Kg bag. ZNFU media liaison officer Kingsley Kaswende says the farmers union is happy with the ...

Some female students at the Evelyn Hone College have accused a named Lecturer at the institution of sexual harassment. The students have told QFM News that the named lecturer has been making sexual advances to them, and that those who turndown his advances are made to fail assignments. The students who sought anonymity say they have tried to report the ...

The opposition All People’s Congress (APC) is shocked by reports suggesting government has failed to pay US$42 Million owed to suppliers of medicine to Medical Stores Limited (MSL). APC President Nason Msoni says it does not make sense for government to fail to pay such a small amount of money when it has been issuing Eurobonds involving huge sums of ...

Former President Rupiah Banda’s son Andrew Banda has predicted that there will be little maize on the market for the Food Reserve Agency (FRA) to buy. Mr. Banda notes that farmers were desperate as early as April to sale their maize only for the Food Reserve Agency to announce the floor prices almost in September. He says farmers had no ...