Planned Parenthood Association of Zambia (PPAZ) says it is in support of the Sustainable Development Goal number five which is aimed at the women empowerment and girls. Executive Director Edford Mutuma says his association believes this goal will reduce the high number of early marriages, teenage pregnancies in the country. He says his organization is happy that issues to do ...

Opposition Forum for Democracy and Development (FDD) says the decision by President Edgar Lungu and his government to charter a private jet at a colossal sum of 300 000 US Dollars to go to New York is a demonstration that the leaders in the country do not care about the sufferings of the people. FDD spokesperson Antonio Mwanza says instead ...

The ruling Patriotic Front has refuted reports that the trip for musicians and party officials to New York, USA was sponsored by government saying the reports are not true. PF Media Committee and Publicity Vice Chairman Sunday Chanda has told QFM News via telephone that such reports are misleading clarifying that the trip was sponsored by the party. Mr. Chanda ...

United Party for National Development (UPND) President Hakainde Hichilema says it is very clear that a number of economic fundamentals and policy inconsistencies under the PF Government are a hindrance to Foreign Direct Investment. And the UPND Leader says the arrogance of the PF Government over the constitution making process will cost them next year’s elections. Mr. Hichilema says he ...

Former Finance Minister Situmbeko Musokotwane says the current economic challenges that Zambia is experiencing were predicted to happen as early as 2011. And Dr. Musokotwane notes that the PF government has in the last four years failed to encourage expansion out put of the private sector. He says this has consequently led to Country not having increased revenue from taxes. ...

Former Fifa vice-president Jack Warner has been banned from football for life. The 72-year-old Trinidadian is the former head of Caribbean and North and Central American football (Concacaf), but quit Fifa in 2011. He is fighting extradition to the US on corruption charges and denies accepting millions of dollars in bribes. Warner committed “many and various acts of misconduct continuously ...

Actor Matt Damon has told Ellen DeGeneres that comments he made in a recent interview, saying gay actors should keep their sexuality a secret, were taken out of context. “It is painful when things get said that you don’t believe,” he said. Just weeks after Damon had to explain his comments on diversity, an interview with The Observer sparked backlash. ...

Officials from several countries have said that more than 1,000 people died in last week’s stampede near Mecca during the annual Hajj pilgrimage. A Nigerian official told the BBC 1,000 bodies of victims had been taken to morgues in the city of Jeddah. Indian, Pakistani and Indonesian officials have also been quoted as saying they think more than 1,000 died. ...

Commerce, Trade and Industry Minister Margaret Mwanakatwe says there is need to review the 65 years lease of the Luburma Market in the Kamwala trading area in Lusaka. Ms. Mwanakatwe says it is important that the terms of the lease benefit both the Zambian people and the contractor, who built the market and got a lease of 65 years before ...

The National Council for Construction (NCC) is optimist the construction sector is bound to grow next year owing to the measures President Edgar Lungu availed in his recent speech to Parliament. NCC Executive Director Charles Mushota says his counsel is inspired that in his speech President Lungu took note that the skills gap in the construction sector is an issue ...