President Edgar Lungu has defended his international trips saying they are used to explore new avenues for trade between countries. President Lungu says people who are attacking him over his trips don’t know what it takes to be president. Speaking to journalists before departure for Botswana at the Kenneth Kaunda International Airport, President Lungu says there is nothing wrong with ...

Finance Minister Felix Mutati has unveiled the 2018 national budget proposing to spend K71.6 billion or 25.9% of GDP. In his Budget speech to Parliament, Mr Mutati said of this amount,K49 billion or 68.5 percent of the total budget will be financed by domestic revenues and K2.4 billion or 3.4 percent by grants from various co-operating partners. He says the ...

 Finance Minister Felix Mutati says he is ready deliver the 2018 Budget speech to Parliament this afternoon. Mr Mutati says he’s inspired by yesterday’s Cabinet proceedings without disclosing what was discussed. He has also thanked God for the good weather in Lusaka today which he says is a sign of good fortunes for the country. Mr Mutati who was speaking ...

Chipolopolo coach Wedson Nyirenda has named his final 23 man squad to face Nigeria in a crucial 2018 Russia world cup qualifier. Nyirenda has maintained most of the team that beat Algeria over two legs, with the only inclusion to the team being Sweden based under-20 midfielder Edward Chilufya. Fashion Sakala who was red carded in the first leg of ...

The Germany Development Corporation says Zambia’s faces an eminent disaster as a result of ground water pollution due to uncontrolled digging of pit latrines by people in peri-urban areas. GIZ Junior Advisor Chaiwa Mushauko tells Q-News that unregulated digging of pit latrines has continued polluting ground water. She says with the high number of pit latrines, there is a possibility ...

The opposition Patriots for Economic Progress (PEP) President Sean Tembo has appealed to President Edgar Lungu to direct relevant government departments to provide him with information to enable him conduct a forensic audit of the procurement process for the 42 fire trucks at a total cost US$42 million. Mr Tembo says this is in view of President Lungu’s challenge to ...

No-one ever really believed any man who used the old excuse for buying Playboy magazine – “for the articles”, as opposed to for the photos of nude women. The nude women were the main attraction. Yet the magazine does have a long and proud literary tradition, publishing stories by authors like John Steinbeck, Jack Kerouac, Arthur C Clarke, Margaret Atwood ...

Policy Monitoring and Research Centre (PMRC) says the 2018 national budget should be responsive to the 7th National Development Plan. PMRC Researcher Miselo Bwalya says this is in order to attain economic development. Mr. Bwalya says the 7th National Development Plan should guide the implementation of the national budget. Meanwhile Transparency International Zambia (TIZ) Executive Director Wesley Chibamba has called ...

In life, Playboy founder Hugh Hefner cavorted with a harem of young women in the infamous Playboy Mansion – a byword for hedonism and sexual excess. In death, he will lie next to just one: the iconic Hollywood actress Marilyn Monroe. Hefner, who died on Wednesday aged 91, bought the crypt next to hers in 1992, for $75,000 (£55,930). The ...

One former UN official said the head of the UN in Myanmar (Burma) tried to prevent human rights advocates from visiting sensitive Rohingya areas. More than 500,000 Rohingya have fled an offensive by the military, with many now sheltering in camps in Bangladesh. The UN in Myanmar “strongly disagreed” with the BBC findings. In the month since Rohingya Muslims began ...