Senga Hill Member of Parliament Kapembwa Simbao has hailed the ongoing smooth purchase of maize by the Food Reserve Agency (FRA) in his constituency. Mr. Simbao says farmers in his constituency are happy with the increase in the floor price for maize and are responding well to the FRA’s procedure of buying the grain. He has told Qfm News by ...

The opposition Rainbow Party says it will pull another surprise in the Lubansenshi parliamentary by-election by winning its first parliamentary seat. Party Spokesperson Goodson Banda says this because people are accepting and appreciating the party’s ideologies premised on socialism. Mr. Banda tells QFM News states that because of the many challenges the country is going through, the electorate in Lubansenshi ...

The ruling Patriotic Front has charged that the people of Zambia are failing to take the opposition UPND seriously because the character assassination kind of politics they have engaged in. Speaking during a press briefing in Lusaka this afternoon, PF Media and Publicity Committee Vice Chairman Sunday Chanda says the people of Zambia expect someone aspiring to take the mantle ...

The Jesuit Centre for Theological Reflection (JCTR) says much as the move to transfer shares of parastatals to the Industrial Development Corporation (IDC) is good, they still have doubts on whether it will achieve the intended purpose. JCTR Director Fr. Leonard Chiti says this considering that government has problems in implementing the good ideas it comes up with. Fr Chiti ...

Government has announced that power utility company, ZESCO Limited will tomorrow commence the importation of 148 Mega watts of power from Mozambique as a mitigation measure of the current load shedding in the country. Addressing journalists in Lusaka today after the 18th Cabinet meeting at State House, Acting Chief Government Spokesperson Vincent Mwale says the power will be imported from ...

RITA Ora has just hinted that she’s Team Perrie Edwards. The X Factor judge made an appearance on CapitalFM this week and seemed to throw some light shade at former 1D star Zayn Malik. The Body On Me star was playing a game of ‘Mash It Up,’ where she had to shout out her own catchphrase if she fancied a celebrity, and things ...

Two British fighters with so-called Islamic State were killed by an RAF drone strike in Syria in an “act of self-defence”, David Cameron has said. Cardiff-born Reyaad Khan was targeted in Raqqa on 21 August and died alongside Ruhul Amin, from Aberdeen, and another fighter, the PM told MPs. Khan, 21, had been plotting “barbaric” attacks on UK soil, he ...

Chancellor Angela Merkel has said the “breathtaking” flow of migrants into Germany will “occupy and change” the country in the coming years. She said Germany would speed up asylum procedures and build extra housing, but called on other EU states to help. French President Francois Hollande said quotas for EU countries to relocate 120,000 migrants were being planned and that ...

Aggrey Chiyangi was not pleased with the manner in which Nkana went about in beating struggling Forest Rangers on Saturday. Nkana laboured to a 1-0 home win over the promoted side at Nkana Stadium in Kitwe. The victory saw Nkana bounce back from last weekend 2-1 away loss to arch-rivals Power Dynamos in the big Kitwe derby. Meanwhile, it took ...

The Kenya versus Equatorial Guinea friendly match has been called off just hours to the clash that had been scheduled for Tuesday at Nyayo National Stadium. An official at the Football Kenya Federation (FKF) who asked not to be named confirmed the development, saying the West Africans had a problem with traveling to Nairobi for the match after playing South ...