Government has been called upon to ensure that it reviews its final list of students selected to benefit from the students loans under the Bursaries Committee. The Zambia Council for Social Development (ZCSD) is calling on the Ministry of Higher Education to re-screen the final selected list of students that will be on student bursary scheme to eliminate those children ...

Three Church Members died on the spot while five others are nursing serious injuries after blocks of the church fell on them in Mazabuka District yesterday. Southern Province Police Commissioner Bonny Kapeso has confirmed the development to QTV News that the three bodies of the deceased are in Mazabuka General Hospital Mortuary. Mr. Kapeso has identified the deceased as David ...

Arsene Wenger hailed Olivier Giroud’s stunning strike against Crystal Palace as a work of art and one of the top five Arsenal goals in his 20-year reign. Giroud’s mid-air back-flicked volley gave Arsenal the lead at the Emirates Stadium on Sunday and set them on course for a 2-0 victory. The France forward’s sumptuous scorpion-kick goal will undoubtedly rate as ...

Bournemouth striker Benik Afobe has pulled out of the Africa Cup of Nations finals to stay with his Premier League team despite recently switching his allegiance from England to the Democratic Republic of Congo. The Congolese football federation (Fecofa) on Monday confirmed Afobe’s withdrawal from a 31-man preliminary squad, who have gathered in Yaounde, Cameroon for pre-tournament preparations. “Afobe has ...

The deadly Army Worms have been spotted in Siavonga District of Southern Province. The army worms which were first recorded on the Copperbelt spread to Central, Luapula and Lusaka provinces. And Siavonga District Commissioner Lovemore Kanyama has confirmed the development to QFM News via telephone that the worms are spotted in Matuwa, Bakada and Gwena areas affecting about 22 farmers. ...

There have been bitter recriminations after Mariah Carey’s televised New Year’s Eve performance went wrong. The pop star’s live appearance in New York’s Times Square was beset by problems as she complained of sound difficulties and struggled to sing. Her representative told Billboard the producers “set her up to fail”. But Dick Clark Productions said any suggestion it would “compromise ...

Police in Indonesia have arrested the captain of a ferry that burst into flames, leaving 23 people dead. There are reports he was the first to leave the boat when the fire broke out, and was rescued from the sea. A senior official at the country’s transport ministry has vowed to revoke the captain’s licence if the reports were found ...

The National Road Fund Agency (NRFA) has disclosed that it raised over K450 million from toll fees in the previous year 2016. And the agency has targeted to raise over K2.1 billion from toll fees this year, 2017 from the Tolling Programme Phase II. Briefing journalists today during a media Breakfast Meeting in Lusaka, NRFA Acting Chief Executive Officer Engineer ...

At least 35 people have been killed in a suicide car bomb attack in a busy square in Iraq’s capital, Baghdad, security and medical sources say. Sixty-one other people were injured by the blast in the predominantly Shia Muslim eastern district of Sadr City. It is not known who was responsible, but so-called Islamic State has carried out similar attacks ...