David Bowie is the clear frontrunner to win this year’s Mercury Prize, with one bookmaker making him 4/7 favourite. Bowie, who died in January, will become the first person to receive the £25,000 prize posthumously if his Blackstar album is crowned the winner later. Other nominees include Laura Mvula, The 1975, Kano and Bat For Lashes. Radiohead have also been ...

The government has approved a new £18bn nuclear power station in the UK after imposing “significant new safeguards” to protect national security. The new plant at Hinkley Point in Somerset is being financed by the French and Chinese governments. However, the UK government says it will have control over foreign investment in “critical infrastructure”. Ministers will be able to stop ...

The Road Transport and Safety Agency has ordered for a re-test of 200 Driver Licence applicants for not following the procedure in obtaining Drivers Licences between January and March 2016. The move is pursuit to the provisions of section 68 (1) (c) of the Road Traffic Act No.11 of 2002. RTSA Head of Public Relations Fredrick Mubanga tells QTV News ...

President Edgar Lungu has nominated and appointed Pastor Godfridah Sumaili as Minister of National Guidance and Religious Affairs. This brings the number of nominated Members of Parliament to eight. Special Assistance to the President for Press and Public Relations Amos Chanda has told Journalists in Lusaka that she has not being sworn in yet because parliament has not yet approved ...

President Edgar Lungu has sworn-in the first eight members of his new Cabinet and ten provincial ministers. These include Defense Minister Davies Chama, Finance Minister Felix Mutati, Home Affairs Minister Seven Kampyongo, Foreign Affairs Minister Harry Kalaba and Health Minister Dr. Chitalu Chilufya. Others that have been sworn-in are Commerce Minister Margaret Mwanakatwe, Minister of National Development and Planning Lucky ...

President Edgar Lungu has reassigned PF Secretary General Davies Chama as Defense Minister in his new Cabinet. President Lungu has replaced Mr. Chama with former Home Affairs Minister Davies Mwila as the new PF Secretary General. He has also nominated MMD leader Felix Mutati as Member of Parliament and appointed him to the position of Finance Minister. President Lungu has ...

The opposition Forum for Democracy and Development (FDD) has urged President Edgar Lungu to come up with an all inclusive Cabinet that will help him to lift the country out of poverty. FDD Spokesperson Antonio Mwanza says the President should look beyond politics and tribe when coming up with his cabinet. Mr. Mwanza notes that five years is a long ...

Rainbow Party Secretary General Wynter Kabimba says he does not expect anything to change in the country in the next five years of the PF government. Mr Kabimba says Zambians should rather brace themselves for harder times ahead than what they have experienced in the last 2 years. He says his party does not think the PF government has the ...

The National Council for Construction (NCC) has described as saddening continued complaints of poor workmanship in the construction sector. NCC Executive Director Charles Mushota says the council’s concern is particularly that many of these complaints are coming from observers who not even engineers. Mr. Mushota states that it is in fact disappointing that laymen now appear to be more knowledgeable ...

Civil Society Scaling up Nutrition Alliance (CSO-SUN) has appealed to President Edgar Lungu to prioritize the enactment of the revised National Food and Nutrition Commission (NFNC) Act of 1967 as he starts his new five year mandate. CSO-SUN program officer for advocacy and communication, Mwandwe Chileshe says there is urgent need to repeal NFNC Act of 1967 as it does ...