Government has directed foreign Contractors to adhere to the twenty (20) percent sub contraction policy so that indigenous Zambian contractors benefit from every contract awarded to foreign contracting companies. Acting Housing and Infrastructure Development Minister Michael Katambo has reminded foreign contracting companies that failure to do so is tantamount to breaking the law. Speaking at a workshop aimed at enhancing ...

Home Affairs Minister Steven Kampyongo has cautioned traditional leaders in Chienge and Nchelenge districts to stop harboring and facilitating movements of refugees without informing authorities. Briefing journalists on the death of seven Congolese refugees who drowned after their boat capsized on Lake Mweru in Chienge, Mr. Kampyongo says to avoid similar calamities in the future, his ministry has intensified the ...

UPND Secretary General Stephen Katuka says the call by President Edgar Lungu for his party to restrain its members from engaging in violence is neither here nor there. Mr Katuka says the UPND has been a peaceful party which does not engage in violence therefore does not need to restrain its members. He says this explains why the party has ...

Government has launched the first ever national policy on honors and awards aimed at improving transparency and administration of honors and awards in the country. Speaking during the launch of the policy in Lusaka, Republican Vice President Inonge Wina explained that it was discovered by the inter ministerial committee on honors and awards that some awards given out during public ...

The Economics Association of Zambia (EAZ) says the country’s increasing debt stock could be the hindrance to government sealing a deal for a financial package with the International Monetary (IMF). EAZ president Chrispin Mphuka says his association has observed that Zambia’s debt is growing so fast. Dr. Mphuka says the increasing debt is unsettling everyone that the Country might borrow ...

Opposition MMD president Nevers Mumba has demanded the immediate closure of the Lusaka Central Correctional facility popularly known as Chimbokaila. Dr. Mumba says having spent a day there, he can attest that the correctional facility is more of a torture gas chamber than a prison. In an interview with QTV News, Dr. Mumba says from his experience, if one is ...

The Independent Broadcasting Authority (IBA) has been called upon to pronounce itself on the continued complaints of unfair coverage by the public broadcaster. Civil rights activist Brebner Changala is concerned that the IBA seems to be paying a deaf ear to complaints by the opposition political parties in the Country. Mr. Changala wonders why the IBA is seen to act ...

The Patriotic Front government has been challenged to convince the Zambian people why it should be given another chance to govern in 2021. MMD Felix Mutati led faction National Secretary Raphael Nakachinda says the PF should state why it should not be voted out of power amidst the numerous accusations of corruption against it. Mr. Nakachinda has told Q-News in ...

Political Scientist Dr. Alex Ng’oma is happy that the nation is on course in diffusing the political tension that arose from the disputed 2016 general election. Dr. Ng’oma tells QTV News that it is pleasing that stakeholders such as the Zambia Center for Inter Party Dialogue (ZCID) are making frantic efforts to defuse the political polarization in the country. He ...

Radja Nainggolan ended his international career on Monday after Belgium coach Roberto Martinez left the AS Roma midfielder out of his squad for next month’s World Cup in Russia. Despite past clashes over discipline, Martinez insisted he took what he knew was an unpopular decision for the good of the team. “Very reluctantly my international career comes to an end,” ...