UPND Chairman for Rural Reconstruction and Development Moono Mapani has called on government to pay retirees their retirement packages on time. Mr. Mapani says retirees are struggling to survive under the current economic situation because they have not yet been paid their benefits. He has recalled that President Lungu in the run up to the January 15th presidential by-election assured ...

Political Activist Dante Saunders has demanded that PF Secretary General Davies Chama apologizes to Zambians for telling them to urinate in Lake Kariba in order to fill up the lake for power generation. Mr. Saunders says Mr. Chama ought to know that his remarks are tantamount to insulting Zambians including elderly people. He has told QFM News that it is ...

The Evangelical Fellowship of Zambia (EFZ) has called on the police to ensure peace and stability continues to prevail in the country. EFZ Executive Director Pukuta Mwanza says police should ensure that all those involved in perpetrating violence are brought to book and dealt with regardless of what section of society they belong to. Rev Mwanza says by now, political ...

During her opening number as host of the 2015 American Music Awards, Jennifer Lopez, who kicked things off with a slow-jam rendition of her classic track “Waiting for Tonight,” told the crowd the evening wasn’t about her. She then transitioned into a jaw-dropping dance number that most assuredly had all eyes on her, including those of a not-so-impressed Nicki Minaj. ...

PF Secretary General Davies Chama says the ruling party does not have the numbers in Parliament to single handedly secure the passage of the Constitution Bill into law. Mr. Chama says contrary to ssuggestions by the Grand Coalition on the Campaign for the People Driven Constitution that it practically has 109 members in Parliament, the ruling PF only has 87 ...

French President Francois Hollande has said his country will intensify air strikes against Islamic State (IS) militants in Syria and Iraq. Speaking in Paris after talks with UK PM David Cameron, Mr Hollande confirmed French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle would join the military action. It comes as the Belgian capital, Brussels, remains on the highest level of terror alert ...

Mali has begun three days of national mourning following Friday’s militant Islamist attack on a hotel in the capital, Bamako, in which at least 19 people were killed. Malian and international troops stormed the Radisson Blu hotel to free guests and staff being held hostage. Two gunmen were killed. Three different Islamist groups have said they carried out the attack. ...

The adjudicatory chamber of Fifa’s ethics committee has opened proceedings against suspended President Sepp Blatter and European soccer boss Michel Platini after ethics investigators called for sanctions against both men, Fifa said on Monday. Fifa said on Monday the adjudicatory chamber intends to come to a decision during December. Blatter and Platini were suspended for 90 days in October, engulfed ...

Fighton Simukonda has named three foreign-based players in his final 21-member team that leaves on Tuesday for the 2015 CAF Under-23 Cup in Senegal. Prominent on the list is Armenian based midfielder Lubambo Musonda who scored a goal in Zambia’s 2-0 home win over Sudan in a 2018 World Cup second round, qualifier on November 15 in Ndola. Egyptian-based striker ...

President Edgar Lungu has advised against politicizing yesterday’s heavy rainstorm in Lusaka which one person died and a number of houses collapsed. President Lungu says tragedies resulting from extreme weather are inevitable occurrences. He however, belives that yesterday’s heavy downpour is a wake-up call on the need to regularly start checking the quality of buildings in the Country. President Lungu ...