Zambia national football team coach George Lwandamina has announced his 23-man squad for the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations qualification match against Kenya. The match will be played at Levy Mwanawasa Stadium in Ndola on Sunday, September 3 with a kick-off time of 16h30. Both Zambia and Kenya have not qualified for final tournament to be hosted in Gabon from ...

A probe flown by the US space agency Nasa has made its first close approach to the planet Jupiter since going into orbit in July. Juno was commanded to pass just 4,200km above the cloud tops of the gas giant on Saturday. No previous spacecraft has got so close to the world during the main phase of its mission. Juno ...

The Secretary to the Treasury has been challenged to tell the nation exactly how much Ministers that occupied office illegally have paid back so far of the public funds they owe. Electoral expert MacDonald Chipenzi is disappointed that the Secretary to the Treasury and the Accountant General have remained mute over the public funds former Ministers need to pay back. ...

The Constitutional Court has been urged to be wary justice will not be done if fails to hear the presidential election petition before it within the constitutional prescribed 14 days. The Young Africa Leaders Initiative (YALI) is concerned that the Constitutional Court has spent more time on hearing preliminary issues on the expense of the actual substantive petition itself. Governance ...

President Edgar Lungu has observed the need for the Zambian people to observe the One Zambia One Nation Motto. President Lungu says this motto is necessary to embrace as it is what ensures that  peace and unity prevails among the Country’s seventy three ethnic groups. He has reminded people in the Country that unity is what in fact defines them ...

The Independent Churches of Zambia ICOZ has called on the media in the country to uphold objectivity in reporting. Speaking in an interview with Q FM News, ICOZ board Chairperson Bishop David Masupa says the media should not be used to instigate violence in the country by disseminating lies in its quest to inform and educate the general public. Bishop ...

Former Finance Minister Katele Kalumba says the advantages of accepting an IMF bailout outweigh the disadvantages. In an interview with QTV News, Dr. Kalumba says this is especially given the investment in infrastructure. Dr.  Kalumba who served as Finance Minister under the Fredrick Chiluba MMD administration says it is this investment in capital projects that will in the long term ...

Uefa announced significant changes to the Champions League on Friday with the top four European leagues each guaranteed four places in the group stage from the 2018/19 season. Under the present system, the top three leagues — currently Spain, Germany and England — have three places each while their fourth-placed teams must play off over two legs for a place ...

Kaizer Chiefs captain Itumeleng Khune has expressed his disappointment at the team’s MTN8 early exit after suffering 1-0 defeat to Cape Town City at the Cape Town Stadium on Friday night. Speaking after the result Khune said, “It’s very sad for us to be knocked out in the first round of the MTN8. A big team like Kaizer Chiefs deserves ...

About 30 French mayors have been urged to follow a court ruling which overturned a controversial ‘burkini ban’ in a resort town. France’s top administrative court suspended the ban in Villeneuve-Loubet on Friday on civil liberties grounds. However, a number of mayors have said they will continue applying the bathing suit ban. The human rights lawyer who brought Friday’s case ...