Visiting Fertilizer Association of South Africa (Fertasa) Chief Executive Officer, Adam Mosert has observed that the fertilizer industry in Zambia and Africa as whole will only grow if it is left in the hands of the private sector. Mr. Mosert has advised that the fertilize industry must not be seen as a political play-ball but as a means to growing ...

The Common for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) has encouraged Italy to invest in railway development in the region. COMESA Secretary General Sindiso Ngwenya has also called on Italy to support COMESA in value addition, noting that Italian designs are world class particularly footwear and hand bags. Mr. Ngwenya says this will improve leather products production and business linkages to ...

Kabwe District Commissioner Patrick Chishala is happy with the ongoing voter registration exercise in the district. Mr. Chishala says the response from the people of Kabwe is overwhelming and sends a message that the people of Kabwe are eager to exercise their rights to vote. He says it is encouraging to see young people turning out in large numbers to ...

Government says it is eager to identify the most cost efficient and cost effective mix of family planning and HIV service linkage and integration strategies suitable for large scale implementation. In a speech read on her behalf her deputy Dr. Kebby Musokotwane at the results dissemination for randomized evaluation of HIV/Family Planning services model study in Lusaka today, Ministry of ...

The ruling Patriotic Front has described its victory in the Lubansenshi Parliamentary by-election as a sweet one. PF Lubansenshi Deputy Campaign manager Frank Bwalya says his party is however, disappointed that the votes it got in the by-election did not match the number of votes the party got in the January 20th presidential election. Father Bwalya has told QFM News ...

Reactions to Sam Smith’s theme song for new James Bond film Spectre vary widely following its unveiling earlier on Nick Grimshaw’s Radio 1 breakfast show. Former Bond actor Sir Roger Moore called Writing’s On the Wall “very haunting and wonderfully orchestrated”. But other Twitter users have been less complimentary, with one describing it as the “worst Bond theme ever“. BBC ...

Swiss prosecutors have opened a criminal investigation into Sepp Blatter, the head of the world football body Fifa. The attorney general’s office said he was being investigated “on suspicion of criminal mismanagement as well as – alternatively – on suspicion of misappropriation”. It said Mr Blatter was currently being questioned. Earlier, Fifa cancelled a press conference at its Zurich headquarters. ...

Swiss prosecutors have opened a criminal investigation into Sepp Blatter, the head of the world football body Fifa. The attorney general’s office said he was being investigated “on suspicion of criminal mismanagement as well as – alternatively – on suspicion of misappropriation”. It said Mr Blatter was currently being questioned. Earlier, Fifa cancelled a press conference at its Zurich headquarters. ...

Police in Lusaka have arrested and charged Special Assistant to the President for Political Affairs Kaizer Zulu with threatening violence in relations to the shooting incident at Chrismar Hotel last Saturday. Lusaka province Police Commissioner Charity Katanga has confirmed to QFM News in a telephone interview that Mr Zulu has since been detained at Woodlands Police Station. She says the ...

Seventy five thousand,two hundred and seventy (75,275)five people have so far been issued with National Registration Cards (NRCs) in phase two of the ongoing mobile issuance exercise. The exercise is covering Lusaka, Eastern, Southern and Western provinces. Home Affairs Minister Davies Mwila has told Parliament today during the questions for oral answer session that in the ten days of the ...