The Zambia Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) has bemoaned the high cost of living in the country. Speaking when he opened a pre-budget consultative workshop organised by ZCTU in conjunction with the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung in Lusaka today, ZCTU President Chishimba Nkole noted that while the cost of living in the country has continued rise, workers incomes have remained static. ...

Home Affairs Minister Steven Kampyongo says the security situation in the country remains calm. Mr Kampyongo says this is despite the negative campaign waged to portray the country as a dictatorship following the arrest of UPND leader Hakainde Hichilema for treason. He has told Parliament in a ministerial statement on the security situation in the country that government will continued ...

A thirty eight year old woman of Chalala in Lusaka was last night strangled to death by criminals masquerading taxi operators who went away with an unknown amount of money. Police Spokesperson Esther Katongo has identified the woman as Mailesi Maunda aged 38 years of Hill View in Lusaka’s Chalala who was in the company of her son aged 19 ...

  President Edgar Lungu says there is need for African countries to work closely to reform the African Union to make it more responsive to present and future challenges. Speaking last evening at a state dinner hosted in honour of the visiting President of Rwanda Paul Kagame, President Lungu said Zambia will cooperate fully in these important discussions, which will ...

Consumer Unit Trust Society (CUTS) International has appealed to the government not to de-motivate local farmers by implementing unproductive policies. CUTS International Zambia National Coordinator Chenai Mukumba has told QTV News that the local farmers need to be motivated by eliminating some of the obstacles that they are facing. Ms Mukumba points out that the call by the farmers through ...

Civil Society Constitution Agenda (CISA) has backed the statement issued by the three church mother bodies that Zambia has slipped into dictatorship. CISCA Chairperson Bishop John Mambo says it is undeniable that there is a leadership crisis in the country. Bishop Mambo has also castigated those condemning the three church mother bodies for the statement they issued last week. He ...

Fifa president Gianni Infantino on Monday strongly defended the use of video assistant referees (VAR) during the first round of group-stage matches at the Confederations Cup in Russia. The latest of the five decisions to go to review was when the video assistant awarded Australia a goal in their 3-2 defeat to Germany on Monday, despite replays appearing to show ...

The Professional Teachers Union of Zambia (PROTUZ) is confident that the introduction of examinations before entry into tertiary education will help improve the quality of education. PROTUZ Secretary General Kangwa Musenga has told Q news that it is clear that some students fail to perform well in university or college because of using leakage at grade twelve level. Mr. Musenge ...

There has been no interest from any club in Real Madrid’s star player Cristiano Ronaldo, who has threatened to leave Spain after running into problems with tax authorities, according to club president Florentino Perez. “No one has sent us an offer for either Cristiano or anyone else,” Perez told Onda Cero radio station. “Ronaldo is a lot more powerful and ...

A youthful Germany side weathered a second-half fightback by Australia to open their Confederations Cup campaign with a 3-2 win over the Socceroos on Monday in Sochi. Goals by Lars Stindl and Leon Goretzka, either side of a penalty by Julian Draxler, saw Germany home to leave them second in Group B behind Chile, who they face in Kazan on ...