A joint team of Zambia Police officers and Namwala district Council Fire Brigade has managed to retrieve the body of a girl who drowned on Sunday afternoon at about 12:30 hours in Namwala river. Council public relations officer Bupe Kabuswe says the girl has been identified as Soneni Muchindu aged 14 years of Namwala’s Copper Compound in Chief Mukobela’s Chiefdom. ...

The Zambia Information and Communications Technology Authority(ZICTA) has issued GOtv Zambia limited with a notification of award for a network license of a private signal distributor which authorizes the company to install and operate a digital terrestrial television distribution network. GOtv has pledged to invest 95 million United States dollars in 5 years and a total of 241 million United ...

The Zambia Revenue (ZRA) has uncovered a mining tax scam worth K76.5 billion. And ZRA has announced that it has started the process of comprehensively auditing mining companies in all applicable tax types. Last year, the amnesty on interest and penalties was announced by the authority to allow tax payers to clean up their tax accounts. ZRA Corporate Communications Manager ...

Speaker of the National Assembly Patrick Matibini has suspended Lusaka province Minister Bowman Lusambo from Parliament for 30 days for assaulting Roan Member of Parliament Chishimba Kambwili. This relates to an incident which happened on 3rd October,2017 at Parliament where Mr Lusambo slapped the Roan MP while Lands Minister Jean Kapata poured a bottle of water on him infuriated by ...

Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg has been called on by a parliamentary committee to give evidence about the use of personal data by Cambridge Analytica. The UK-based political consulting firm is accused of using the data of 50 million Facebook members to influence the 2016 US presidential election. Damian Collins, the chairman of the Commons inquiry into fake news, accused Facebook ...

Ministry of Tourism and Arts Permanent Secretary Reverend Dr. Howard Sikwela says the time is ripe for Zambia to diversify the economy through tourism. Speaking when US Ambassador to Zambia Daniel Foote paid a courtesy call on him at his office, Dr. Sikwela said tourism comes under Pillar Number One of the Seventh National Development Plan, entailing the growing of ...

Two Zambian Nationals have died in a fatal road traffic accident in Johannesburg, South Africa. The two identified as Jerome Mulenga aged 33,holder of passport number ZN226638 and Musonda Mwanza holder of passport number ZN434215 died on the spot when the vehicle they were travelling in lost control and overturned several times. According to information made available to the Zambian ...

Chinese President Xi Jinping has told the National People’s Congress (NPC) that China must not become complacent about its development. Speaking at the closing session of the annual parliament, Mr Xi said China was at a critical stage in its history and only socialism could save it. He also warned against Taiwanese separatism or attempts to split China. Mr Xi ...

Energy Expert Chiko Mudenda says the selling of Indeni Oil Refinery Company in Ndola has been long overdue. He says government should be concentrating on reducing the high cost of the fuel supply chain. Mr. Mudenda tells QTV Business News that he has noted that some stakeholders are concentrating on who buys the refinery company saying this is not important, ...

Governance, Elections, Advocacy, Research Services (GEARS) Initiative Zambia has reminded the Electoral Commission of Zambia (ECZ) of its mandate to conduct continuous voter registration as provided by the Electoral Process ACT. GEARS Initiative Zambia Executive Director MacDonald tells QTV News that under section 7 of the Electoral Process Act, the ECZ is expected to conduct continuous voter registration which the ...