The Rural Electrification Authority (REA) has disclosed that it will this year alone develop a stretch of 423 kilometers new grid extension projects at a total cost of K16.1 million. REA Corporate Affairs Manager, Justine Mukosa has told a media briefing in Lusaka that the 2017 grid extension projects include; Chimpempe in Kawambwa, Mambwe Mission, Milenge and Kataba in Nalolo ...

PATRIOTIC Front Secretary General Davies Mwila says President Edgar Lungu will never impose his will or that of the ruling party on the Zambian people. Mr Mwila says Zambians should be guaranteed that President Lungu is a democrat who values dialogue. He says this is why government has embarked on consultations on whether Zambia should leave or maintain its membership ...

Shia LaBeouf’s latest film hasn’t exactly set the UK box office on fire. War movie Man Down, which also stars Gary Oldman, Jai Courtney and Kate Mara, made £7 on its opening weekend. Or – to put it another way – the film sold one adult ticket. To put that into perspective, Beauty and the Beast took a further £6.75m ...

Cameroon coach Hugo Broos has insisted he wants to stay in the job, just a week after saying he was seriously considering his future. The Belgian had threatened to quit over management and funding problems but after a meeting with sport authorities has changed his stance. Broos also rejected speculation he had applied to be coach of Ghana, who have ...

Aung San Suu Kyi has denied there is ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya Muslim minority in Myanmar, despite widespread reports of abuses. In an exclusive interview with the BBC, the Nobel peace prize winner acknowledged problems in Rakhine state, where most Rohingya people live. But she said ethnic cleansing was “too strong” a term to use. Instead, Myanmar’s de-facto leader ...

Prisons Care and Counselling Association (PRISCA) has urged government to intensify efforts to decongest correctional facilities across the country. PRISCA Executive Director Dr Godfrey Malembeka has told QFM news in a telephone interview that one way of decongesting correctional facilities is by disposing of cases before the courts in good time. Dr Malembeka says decentralizing the criminal judicial system is ...

Former Economics Association of Zambia (EAZ) president Noel Nkhoma says government’s ability to raise domestic revenue above target in the first quarter of 2017 is a positive sign. Mr. Nkhoma says if the Zambia Revenue Authority (ZRA) can exceed its first quarter tax collection target by K140 million, it can only means that government is working. He has however told ...

Political Scientist Alex Ng’oma has observed that the Zambian media has remained polarized eight months after the Country went to the polls. Dr Ng’oma notes that media houses have either aligned themselves to the government or the opposition. He says the media houses that aligned themselves to the government have been attacking the opposition, while those aligned to the opposition ...

Justice Minister Given Lubinda has advised the opposition UPND to stop misleading the nation that they have an election petition case before the Courts of Law. Mr. Lubinda says what the UPND have before the Lusaka High Court is the right to be heard case. He says the UPND election petition case was thrown out by the Constitutional Court in ...

The ruling PF and opposition UPND have both ruled out the possibility of them reconciling anytime soon. Various stakeholders have been calling on the two rival parties to bury their political differences and move ahead in the spirit of oneness, with the latest call coming from the Human Rights Commission. UPND Secretary General Steven Katuka has told QTV News that ...