The Lusaka Fast Track Court for Traffic Offences has convicted over one thousand motorists for abrogating various road traffic regulations over the past three months. Road Transport and Safety Agency Information Officer Fredrick Mubanga says a total number of eight motorists are currently serving jail sentences for committing different road traffic offences. Mr Mubanga says some sentences were custodial while ...

The Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI) has demanded that Government clearly demonstrates its commitment to enacting the proposed constitutional amendments by not introducing any other Bills other than the Budget, so that Parliament can devote all its time to discussing the Constitution and the 2016 Budget. Speaking at a media briefing in Lusaka today, YALI President Andrew Nthewewe has reminded ...

Republican President Edgar Lungu has urged the Zambia National Soccer Team to remain focused and ensure that they win Sunday’s Africa Cup of Nations qualifier against Kenya. Speaking when he visited the Team during their afternoon training session at Heroes Stadium yesterday, President Lungu says he will be going to Kenya on the 11th of September and that it will ...

A tense stand-off between police and migrants on a train in Hungary is continuing into a second day. On Thursday, police let the migrants board the train in Budapest but then tried to force them off at a refugee camp to the west of the capital. Hungarian MPs face a key vote later on whether to tighten border controls as ...

David Cameron is expected to announce plans later to increase the number of refugees being allowed into the UK. The extra refugees are expected to come from UN camps bordering Syria, and not from among people already in Europe. No specific figure has been agreed, but Mr Cameron has previously said the UK would continue to take in “thousands”. The ...

The Zambia Prisons Service is confident that the agricultural equipment President Edgar Lungu launched at Kabwe’s Mukobeko Maximum Prison will help in boosting agriculture production. Zambia Prisons Service Deputy Commission General Dr. Chileshe Chisela says the service will continue to work hard in ensuring that production is boosted for the benefit of the nation. Dr. Chisela says the service is ...

The Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI) says government should take responsibility for the riotous behavior by University of Zambia students on Wednesday over their withheld exam results. YALI Governance Advisor Isaac Mwanza says his organization does not understand why government is delaying paying lecturers leading to the students’ riotous behavior. Mr. Mwanza has told Qfm News that YALI feels government ...

UPND Bweengwa Member of Parliament Highvie Hamududu says revelations by Chief Government Spokesperson Chishimba Kambwili that there civil servants who are underperforming in government is good reason to enact a law on performance. Mr Hamududu says under performance in the civil service is now becoming a source of great concern. He notes that it is also possible that government is ...

Southampton midfielder Victor Wanyama is focused on playing for Kenya in Sunday’s African Nations Cup qualifier against Zambia after his recent transfer move to Tottenham fell through. The Kenya skipper also said he looked forward to resuming his game with Southampton after playing for his country against Zambia and in the midweek friendly against Equatorial Guinea in Nairobi. Wanyama joined ...

Zambia national football team coach George Landwamina has announced a 23-man squad for the 2017 Africa Cup on Nations against Kenya on Sunday. The match is scheduled for Nyayo Stadium in Nairobi on Sunday, September 6 with a scheduled kick-off time of 3pm CAT. Landwamina has listed eight foreign based players, including Collins Mbesuma who returns to the fold for ...