General Education Permanent Secretary Henry Tukombe says the ministry is considering engaging volunteers to help out in teaching in rural schools while the ministry considers employing more teachers. Mr. Tukombe has acknowledged that schools in rural areas have inadequate teachers, a situation that compromises the quality of education for pupils. He says the ministry is considering engaging school leavers with ...

Finnish Ambassador to Zambia Timo Olkkonen has observed there is a lot of talk on the fight against corruption in Zambia which is not accompanied by action. Mr Olkkonen says there is lack of action against those cited in the Auditor General’s report for misappropriation of public funds. He has told Q-news that government should consider giving the Anti-Corruption Commission ...

US Vice-President Mike Pence has skipped a dinner at which he was due to share a table with North Korea’s ceremonial head of state Kim Yong-nam. Mr Pence briefly encountered Mr Kim but they tried to avoid directly facing each other, Yonhap news agency reports. Meanwhile South Korean President Moon Jae-in has shaken hands with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un’s ...

Agriculture Minister Dora Siliya is disappointed with the services of Atlas Mara Bank and UBA Bank in the implementation of the e-voucher during this farming season. Ms Siliya says the of the eight banks engaged by government, the two banks have been disappointing. She says even Barclays Bank which was engaged late has done well in terms of activating the ...

Health Minister Chitalu Chilufya has reiterated his warning to unscrupulous people involved in the pilferage of drugs and other pharmaceuticals that the law will soon catch up with them. And Dr Chilufya has urged the Zambia Medicines Regulatory Authority to intensify surveillance in all health institutions and ensure that all expired and illegal drugs and other pharmaceutical products being given ...

Seventeen (17) new cholera cases have been recorded in last 24 hours countrywide of which 15 are from Lusaka and 2 from outside Lusaka. Meanwhile higher learning institutions including University of Zambia and the Copperbelt University are expected to reopen by the end of February. Giving an update on the new cholera cases, ministry of health permanent secretary for administration ...

Just days before Paris Saint-Germain touch down in the Spanish capital, Zinedine Zidane’s Real Madrid have the chance to boost their fragile confidence when they face Real Sociedad in La Liga on Saturday. The reigning European champions have been shipping a worrying number of goals in the build-up to their Champions League last-16 showdown with the likes of Neymar, Edinson ...

The Black Panther first entered the Marvel Cinematic Universe back in 2016 in Captain America: Civil War. Now he’s got his own film, which goes way beyond the usual expectations of fantasy, fight scenes and romance. Having a plot based around a black superhero is a first for Marvel, but the film builds on this concept in a massive way. ...

The US government has shut down after Congress failed to pass a key budgetary measure on time. Lawmakers had hoped to approve a new spending bill before federal funding expired at midnight (05:00 GMT). But Republican Senator Rand Paul ended hopes for a quick vote when he demanded a debate in the chamber on his amendment to maintain spending caps. ...

Two British men believed to be members of a notorious Islamic State group (IS) cell have been seized by Syrian Kurdish fighters, US officials say. Alexanda Kotey, 34, and El Shafee Elsheikh, 29, were the last two members of the cell to remain at large. The four, all from London, were nicknamed “the Beatles” because of their British accents. US ...