The announcement that Will Ferrell is making a comedy about Eurovision for Netflix is (Europop) music to the ears of many a fan of the annual song contest. The Hollywood star is said to have been introduced to Eurovision by his Swedish wife in 1999 and he even attended this year’s event in Lisbon. Ferrell will star in the feature ...

Zambia has commemorated the day of the African Child with a call for children to get involved in development activities both as agents and beneficiaries of development. The commemoration which was initially supposed to be held on 16th June,2018, but could not proceed owing to the funeral of late former Gender Minister Victoria Kalima was held today, 19th June. In ...

Japan profited from Colombia’s nightmare start to the World Cup as they secured a victory against 10 men in their Group H opener in Saransk, despite James Rodriguez’s late introduction. Colombia conceded a penalty and had a man sent off inside three minutes, with Carlos Sanchez dismissed for handling Shinji Kagawa’s shot at a goal left exposed by terrible defending. ...

Ministry of Gender Permanent Secretary, Auxilia Ponga has bemoaned the low women representation in decision making positions at local government level. Speaking during the launch of the Lusaka City Council Social Inclusion and Gender Mainstreaming Policy, Dr. Ponga is concerned that out of the 1, 624 elected councilors in the country, only 130 are women. She says these statistics show ...

Italy’s right-wing populist Interior Minister, Matteo Salvini, has prompted a new outcry by saying he wants a census of the Roma community that would lead to non-Italians being deported. After a chorus of criticism he said his only aim was to protect Roma children. There are at least 130,000 Roma (Gypsies) in Italy, and many live in unlicensed camps on ...

Mines and Mineral Resources Minister, Richard Musukwa says government is concerned that some mining firms have continued to declare losses making it difficult for government to get the required taxes. The Minister said this in Lusaka when he officiated at the three day 7th Zambia Alternative Mining Indaba held under the theme “Our Natural Resources, Our Future! Extraction for all, ...

A Police officer of Kabwe’s Kasanda Police Camp has died after being shot by his close friend. Police Spokesperson Esther Katongo has named the officer as Sergeant Samuel Tembo aged 47 who was allegedly shot by Simon Mbulo of Makululu compound using a revolver. Ms Katongo says the incident happened in the early hours of 19th June at about 01:40 ...

The Economics Association of Zambia (EAZ) has called for the full reconciliation of government’s public debt and public guarantee debt. EAZ president Chrispin Mphuka says it is high time the government made public the exact amounts in public debt and public guarantee debt. Dr. Mphuka says this will clear speculations on Zambia’s public debt given that there could be some ...

Harry Kane’s stoppage-time winner ensured England started their World Cup campaign with victory after Tunisia threatened to snatch a point in Volgograd. Kane scored his second goal of the game with a clever header as Gareth Southgate’s side recorded England’s first win in the opening game of a major tournament since they beat Paraguay in the 2006 World Cup. England’s ...

US rapper XXXTentacion, who quickly rose to fame with two consecutive hit albums, has been killed aged 20. He was leaving a motorcycle dealership in south Florida on Monday when an armed suspect shot him. Police in Broward County said XXXTentacion, whose real name is Jahseh Onfroy, was taken to hospital where he was pronounced dead. He was often described ...