The Electoral Commission of Zambia (ECZ) has registered eight hundred and ninety three thousand seven hundred and eighty three (893,783) new voters during the first, second and third phases of the voter registration exercise which took place from 14th September to 27th October, 2015. ECZ Public Relations Manager Crispin Akufuna in a statement issued to QFM News says of the ...
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Bond’s Spectre breaks box office records
Spectre, the 24th James Bond adventure, has broken all-time box office records in nearly every market in which it has been released so far. Its UK launch set a new record for movies released on a Monday – as opposed to a Friday – taking more than £41m in its first week. It beat previous Monday release record holder, 2004’s ...
Read More »Sinai plane crash: ‘External influence’ caused crash
The Russian airline Kogalymavia has blamed “external influence” for Saturday’s Sinai plane crash which killed 224 people. A senior airline official said: “The only reasonable explanation is that it was [due to] external influence.” An investigation by aviation experts using data from the aircraft’s “black boxes” has yet to give its conclusions. The head of Russia’s Federal Aviation Agency said ...
Read More »LWSC begins rationing of water to Chongwe District
Lusaka Water and Sewerage Company (LWSC) has announced that it is with immediate effect starting to ration water supply to Chongwe district. Company public relations Manager Topsy Sikalinda says the district will now be supplied with water twice a day. He says this follows the drop in water levels in the Chongwe river. Mr. Sikalinda notes that as a way ...
Read More »Falling tree kills 75 year old woman of Sikondo village
A 75 year old woman of Sikondo village, in Nalikwanda area of Mongu District has died after a tree fell on her as she was catching caterpillars. Nakayanda Muliati of Chief Litungi in Nalikwanda area of Mongu District died on the spot after being hit by a tree that was cut down by her grandson in order for them to ...
Read More »503 NGOs registered under NGO Act as of September 2015
Government has disclosed that a total of 503 NGOs were registered as at 30th September, 2015 under the NGO Act number 16 of 2009. Community Development Minister Emerine Kabanshi says of those registered 387 are local NGOs and 115 are international NGOs. Speaking when she met Italian NGOs at Casa Portico in Lusaka today, Ms. Kabanshi says government recognizes the ...
Read More »Lungu threatens to close millers hiking mealie meal prices
President Edgar Lungu has threatened to close some milling companies if they continue hiking mealie-meal prices. President Edgar Lungu said this in Kalulushi when he addressed marketers at Luato market. Mr. Lungu said there was no way milling companies and traders would continue hiking mealie-meal prices when the price of maize was low. He said maize was available in the ...
Read More »Chabinga admits Wanderers were second best
Mufulira Wanderers coach Manfred Chabinga says his side were certainly second best in their 3-0 away bashing to old foes Nkana. Twelve-time champions Nkana were all over promoted Wanderers in an exciting Copperbelt derby played at Nkana Stadium in Kitwe on Sunday to see the hosts avenge the 2-0 first leg loss they suffered on June 20 in Mufulira. “We ...
Read More »Lungu missed an opportunity to give people a message of economic hope – GBM
UPND Vice President for Administration Geoffrey Mwamba says President Edgar Lungu missed an opportunity to give the people on the Copperbelt a message of economic hope when he addressed a rally in Kitwe on Saturday. Mr Mwamba in a statement says President Lungu and other PF leaders instead used the rally to attack citizens especially the UPND, a clear indication ...
Read More »Kabimba,M’membe found with case to answer
Rainbow Party President Wynter Kabimba and Post Newspapers Editor-in-Chief Fred M’membe have been found with a case to answer on two counts of Contempt of Court and Publishing Defamatory matter. This relates to a newspaper article titled “Lungu’s Govt is Framing Nchito to Cover Rupiah’s Criminality – Kabimba,” published in the Post Newspapers in February this year, for which former ...
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