It is now uncertain as to whether Russian-based Zambia midfielder Chisamba Lungu will travel home for this Sunday’s 2018 World Cup return leg qualifier against Sudan. The FK Ural midfielder did not travel with Zambia to Khartoum on Monday for Wednesday’s 2018 World Cup second round, first leg qualifier against Sudan in Karima. Chisamba said in an interview from his ...

Zambia Youths Association in the Fight Against Corruption (ZYAFAC) has come up with a twenty five points document dubbed “securing the future of our children’s children” highlighting what it says are failed promises of the ruling Patriotic Front since coming to power in 2011. The document signed by ZYAFAC Executive Director Rickson Kanema and deputy director of Administration Chewe Musonda ...

Matero Member of Parliament Miles Sampa says his purported emissaries to President Edgar Lungu should be arrested for impersonation and misrepresentation. Mr. Sampa has told Qfm News by telephone that this is because he has never sent any emissaries to speak on his behalf to State House. He says he does not have any spokesperson and usually speaks for himself ...

The Electoral Commission of Zambia is confident it will meet the target of registering 1.7 million new voters ahead of the 2016 general election. ECZ Director Priscilla Isaacs says with intensified sensitization to encourage eligible voters to register, the target looks attainable. She however says more needs to be done and has called on the media to help sensitize people ...

The Zambia Consolidated Copper Mines Investments Holdings (ZCCM-IH) has offloaded 28 million shares it holds on behalf of the government in various mines to the public. The shares offer which has opened today will close on Monday, 30th November, 2015 ZCCM-IH Chief Executive Officer Pius Kasolo has told journalists in Lusaka today that the main objective of the sale down ...

The Foundation for Democratic Process (FODEP) has observed that delayed rains in most parts of the country are a blessing in disguise to the mobile issuance of National Registration Cards and the voter registration exercise especially in flood prone areas. FODEP has appealed to the Ministry of Home Affairs and the Electoral Commission of Zambia to expedite the two exercises ...

Football Association chairman Greg Dyke has questioned whether any World Cup has been won without “a pile of bungs”. Wolfgang Niersbach quit as president of the German football federation (DFB) amid claims payments were made to officials at world football’s governing body Fifa during the bidding process for the 2006 World Cup. Germany beat England, South Africa and Morocco to ...

Playwright Laura Wade and Imitation Game star Alex Lawther are among those named on this year’s Bafta Breakthrough Brits list. Wade, whose play Posh was transferred to the West End from the Royal Court before being adapted into 2014 film The Riot Club, said “it feels brilliant”. Her latest project, a stage adaptation of Sarah Waters’ novel Tipping the Velvet, ...

Republican Donald Trump’s plan to deport 11 million undocumented immigrants from the US has been savaged by his party rivals in a TV debate. Two others also running for the Republican presidential nomination, John Kasich and Jeb Bush, said the plan was both impractical and divisive. Mr Trump, a billionaire New Yorker who has been leading in the polls, was ...

State House says government through the Road Development Agency (RDA) is on course in meeting K1.35 billion 2015 toll gates tax target. The President’s Special Assistant for Project Monitoring and Implementation Lucky Mulusa could however not disclose how much has so far been collected in toll fees. Mr. Mulusa has on the other hand told Qfm News that some of ...