Robert Lewandowski scored five goals in nine minutes after coming on as a substitute for Bayern Munich in their Bundesliga victory against Wolfsburg. Bayern trailed 1-0 at half-time, when Lewandowski came on for Thiago. Six minutes later, the Poland international netted his first goal of the night from close range. Lewandowski added four more in quick succession to record the ...

Public Policy analyst Mbita Chitala has observed that President Edgar Lungu’s speech to Parliament last Friday laid a good foundation for a developmental national budget for 2016. Dr. Chitala says he expects the 2016 national budget to support the ongoing infrastructure development projects in the country. In an interview with Qfm News, Dr. Chitala is certain that Finance Minister Alexander ...

The Christian Coalition has expressed happiness over President Edgar Lungu’s declaration of 18th October as a national day of prayer and fasting. Coalition President, Dr. Charles Mwape says it is good that the President has realized the importance of prayer as a powerful tool to deal with the challenges the economy is facing. He says it is also through prayer ...

The Zambia Cooperative Federation (ZCF) says the cooperative movement’s failure to make a notable contribution to the country’s economy is as a result of lack of commitment by the members to do so. President Edgar Lungu during his address to the National Assembly last Friday expressed concern that the cooperative movement is in a state where it is struggling to ...

United Party for National Development (UPND) Kaoma Central Member of Parliament Carlos Antonio has charged that Western province is getting a raw deal in terms of development. Mr Antonio says the Patriotic Front Government has deliberately chosen to marginalize Western Province. He says the ruling party is concentrating most of the development in areas where its Members of Parliament come ...

MMD President Nevers Mumba says the ruling Patriotic Front should apologise to the Zambian people for failing to deliver on the promises contained in its 2011-2016 party manifesto. Dr. Mumba says the PF should also say sorry for the load shedding and depreciation of the kwacha among other things. He says the ruling party promised to deliver development to the ...

The Premier League is in danger of losing a fourth Champions League spot in the 2017-18 season if poor European performances continue this season. English teams have not reached the Champions League quarter-finals in two of the past three seasons. New co-efficient rankings,  calculated over a five-year period, show England are third, behind Spain and Germany. Italy are fourth, four ...

Sunday night’s Emmy Awards ceremony was watched by a record low of 11.9 million viewers on US television, down nearly 4 million compared to last year. The 2014 awards were seen by 15.6 million, but aired on a Monday and did not have to compete with an NFL game. Previous lows include 12.3 million in both 1990 and in 2008, ...

European interior ministers have agreed a deal to relocate 120,000 migrants across the continent in a vote passed by a significant majority. Under the plan, migrants will be moved from Italy, Greece and Hungary to other countries in the EU. Romania, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary voted against accepting mandatory quotas. But a large majority of EU member states ...

Government says it is committed to linking up communities with technological innovations by empowering them with knowledge imparted by institutions such as the National Technology Business Centre- NTBC to improve their innovations. Department of Science and Technology Acting Director Lackson Tonga observed that there is need to improve community development standards by elevating them with a different approach. Addressing inventors ...