ActionAid Zambia has observed the need to review the modalities in terms of revenue collection for the mining companies in the country. The organization has also commended the Zambia Revenue Authority (ZRA) for exposing the tax evasion scam worth K76.5 billion in the extractive sector. ActionAid Zambia Country Director Nalucha Ziba has told QTV Business News that the current strategy ...

Six people including the driver have died on the spot in an accident which happened today at about 12:30 hours 200 meters West of Luangwa Bridge. Police Spokesperson Esther Katongo has confirmed the development to QTV News that all the deceased who are three men, two women and a female juvenile aged about four years have not yet been identified. ...

Immediate past Most Reverend Retired Archbishop of Lusaka Telesphore Mpundu says the current politics in the country is disgraceful as politicians are focusing on dirty personality smearing pains against each other instead of pushing forward developmental agendas. Meanwhile Reverend Dr. Alick Banda has today been ordained as the sixth Archbishop of Lusaka taking over from Archbishop Mpundu. Speaking during the ...

Zambia Association of Manufacturers (ZAM) has advised the general public on the need to be vigilant in identifying and reporting the manufacture of counterfeit products. This is in view of recent events and ongoing challenges associated with the manufacture and sale of counterfeit products on the domestic market. ZAM Chief Executive Officer Chipego Zulu says counterfeit products refer to any ...

Irate members of the public have burnt down Feni Police Post in Chipata District and a traditional court after the police rescued a mental suspect who murdered a 41 year old man of the same area. Steven Zulu aged 41 has been murdered by a suspected mental patient only identified as Yaris Ibu. This happened in Luangeni village in Paramount ...

Finance Minister Margaret Mwanakatwe has maintained that Zambia’s debt stock as at end December, 2017 stands at US$8.7 billion for external debt, K48.4 billion Domestic Debt and K12.7 billion Domestic arrears. Ms Mwanakatwe says these are the loans that the government has contracted. The Finance Minister states that every contracted loan is published in the Government’s Mid-Year and Annual Economic ...

The Catholic Bishops in Zambia have elected Reverend George Lungu, Bishop of Chipata Diocese as President of the Zambia Conference of Catholic Bishops (ZCCB). Bishop Lungu takes over from Archbishop Telesphore Mpundu, the Archbishop Emeritus of Lusaka Archdiocese. Bishop Lungu was elected at the ZCCB Plenary Meeting held on 12thApril 2018 at Kapingila ZCCB House in Lusaka. Most Rev. Ignatius ...

Police in Mansa have arrested a 28-year old man after he attempted to steal and sale his sister’s six-month old baby at K7, 000. Richard Mwewa of off Chumbwe village in Kalasalukangaba Village in Mansa District was apprehended shortly after he broke into his 19-year old sister’s house and made away with her son. Police Spokesperson Esther Katongo tells QTV ...

The European Union and the Zambian Government have signed 87 million Euro grant (equivalent to more than 1 billion Kwacha) Financing Agreement for a programme to support the “Sustainable Commercialization of Zambia’s Smallholder Farmers”. In line with Zambia’s 7th National Development Plan and the National Agricultural Policy 2016-2020, the European Union’s new programme will help small-scale farmers to graduate from low ...

Eastern Province Deputy Permanent Secretary Patrick Mwanawasa has instructed that all billboards with open defecation free messages in the province be brought down with immediate effect. In a letter addressed to all district commissioners in the province, Mr. Mwanawasa has described the messages on the UNICEF billboards proclaiming certain areas as open defecation free zones as dehumanizing. He says in ...