The Ndola Magistrate Court has sentenced the man who sparked the fire that gutted Kapalala market yesterday to two years imprisonment with hard labour. Magistrate Oswald Chibalo sentenced Luckson Ngabala aged 30 of Kabushi after he pleaded guilty to the charge of criminal recklessness and negligence. In mitigation, Ngabala said it was not his intention to set the market on ...

Rescuers are searching for at least 30 people feared trapped in a building collapse in Mumbai. Local reports say a three-storey building in India’s financial capital toppled early on Thursday. “Forty people are believed to be stuck inside and a 43-member team is conducting rescue operations,” an official for India’s National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) told AFP. Mumbai is recovering ...

The opposition UPND says it doubts the Food Reserve Agency (FRA) will be able to meet the target of buying 500, 000 metric tonnes of maize for strategic reserves during the current marketing season. UPND Chairman for Rural Reconstruction and Development Moono Mapani says rural farmers, who he says are the majority farmers in Zambia, have resolved not to sale ...

Governance Activist Leslie Chikuse says there is hope that sanity will return on the political scene soon. Mr. Chikuse says this is because both the ruling party and opposition are showing signs of working together as opposed to being antagonistic towards each other. Meanwhile, Mr. Chikuse has appealed to UPND Members of Parliament to consider moving a motion in parliament ...

Liverpool have agreed a £35 million deal with Arsenal to sign England midfielder Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, according to reports on Wednesday.Oxlade-Chamberlain appeared set to join Chelsea earlier this week after the Premier League champions had a bid accepted for the 24-year-old. But Liverpool appear to have won the race for Oxlade-Chamberlain’s signature ahead of Thursday’s deadline. It is believed Liverpool was ...

A chemical plant near the flooded city of Houston is expected to explode or catch fire in the coming days. During heavy rainfall from Hurricane Harvey, the Arkema plant at Crosby lost refrigeration of chemical compounds which need to be kept cool, and there is no way to prevent a possible fire, the company said. At least 33 people have ...

The Southern African Centre for the Constructive Resolution of Disputes (SACCORD) has called on President Edgar Lungu and the ruling Patriotic Front to take a similar step taken by UPND Leader Hakainde Hichilema to forgive his perceived oppressors. SACCORD Executive Director Boniface Cheembe has told QTV News that in order to have a successful national dialogue, it is important that ...

The Disaster Management and Mitigation Unit (DMMU) says the acid spillage into Kifubwa river in Solwezi has been neutralized. This happened when a truck carrying sulphuric acid overturned and spilled the acid into the river. DMMU National Coordinator Patrick Kangwa tells Q-News that the situation has been contained, but has however, advised people not to buy fish from the affected ...

Electoral Commission of Zambia (ECZ) Chief Electoral Officer Priscilla Isaac’s contract has ended. ECZ Public Relations Officer Raphael Phiri says Ms Isaac’s contract will come to an end tomorrow, Thursday 31st August, 2017, but that her official last working day was today Wednesday, 30th August, 2017. Mr Phiri says Ms Isaac opted not to renew her contract after serving the ...

First Lady Esther Lungu has been bestowed with the role of matron for early childhood education in Zambia by the Ministry of General Education and other cooperating partners. And Mrs Lungu has called for strengthened multi-sectoral linkages in the provision of early childhood development services in the country by stakeholders in the education sector. Speaking during the launch of the ...