National Restoration Party Spokesperson Bwalya Nondo has charged that the 7th national development plan which was launched recently by President Edgar Lungu will end up being a white elephant if measures to fully implement it are not established. Mr. Nondo told Qfm news that the country has seen many other national development plans which include, the 5th and 6th national ...

A two month old baby has been burnt to death in a maize field in Chief Mwanse of Lundazi District in Eastern Province. Eastern Province Police Commissioner Alex Chilufya has confirmed the death of the child. Mr Chilufya says this happened when the child got caught up in a blaze of fire  ignited with a match stick by a 10 ...

Patriotic Front and UPND cadres today clashed at Lusaka’s Memorial Park leaving several mourners scampering in different directions for safety. Some mourners are nursing serious injuries at the University Teaching Hospital (UTH) after the two warring parties clashed while burying their members. Family members and mourners briefly abandoned the bodies of their relatives for their safety as the PF and ...

French President Emmanuel Macron has taken another swipe at Donald Trump over the US president’s policy on climate change – this time backed up by the muscle of Arnold Schwarzenegger. In a video on social media, Mr Macron is joined by the Terminator star as he vows to “make the planet great again”. “Make America great again” was Mr Trump’s ...

The Zambia National Union of Teachers (ZNUT) has opposed Higher Education Minister Professor Nkandu Luo’s intentions to introduce entrance examinations for students before they can be admitted in colleges and Universities. Union President Newman Bubala says government should learn to trust and respect the structures that exist in the education sector. Mr. Bubala has told QTV News that the results ...

Government says Zambia has continued recording high cervical cancer cases in women. Ministry of health Spokesperson Dr. Kennedy Malama has told QFM news that Zambia is one of the countries in the world with the high prevalence in new cervical cancer cases. Dr. Malama adds that breast cancer has also greatly affected women, but reiterates that government has put up ...

More than 140 people are feared buried in a landslide in Sichuan province in south-western China, state media say. About 40 homes were destroyed in Xinmo village in Maoxian county, after the side of a mountain collapsed at about 06:00 local time (22:00 GMT Friday). Rescue teams are frantically searching for survivors trapped beneath rocks. Pictures posted by the People’s ...

Transport and Communications Minister Brain Mushimba has observed that the Zambian aviation sector has been turbulent after the collapse of Zambian Airways in 1994. The Transport and Communications Minister says despite this turbulence, it has still shown unprecedented growth over the last two decades. Engineer Mushimba says over 1.6 million passengers entered Zambia through its airports in 2016, indicating an ...