Government says it is keen to ensure that Zambia domesticates the World Health Organization (WHO) Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC). Speaking in Lusaka during the presentation of findings of the Joint Needs Assessment of the WHO-Framework Convention on tobacco control, Ministry of Health Permanent Secretary in Charge of Administration, Dr. Kennedy Malama said government is making frantic efforts towards ...

Portugal boss Fernando Santos predicts a “tough battle” in Monday’s decisive World Cup group game against Iran as both countries chase a place in the last 16. European champions Portugal are level with Spain on four points at the top of group B and need a draw to guarantee qualification. Iran, who beat Morocco in their opening game before losing ...

England’s young and free-flowing team banished the ghost of past national failures with a record 6-1 thrashing of feeble Panama on Sunday that included a hat-trick by Harry Kane and eased them into the last 16. England’s biggest-ever World Cup win, featuring two penalties by Kane then a fortuitous deflection off his heel, also guaranteed Belgium’s berth in the next ...

Ed Sheeran temporarily stopped his latest sell-out concert on his world tour to go to the toilet – twice. The Grammy award winning singer halted his Saturday night set in Cardiff because he “needed a pee” after performing his smash hit Galway Girl. Then three songs later Sheeran stopped in the middle of singing Photograph, saying “I’m so sorry Cardiff” ...

Turkey’s long-standing leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan has won a new five-year term after securing outright victory in the first round of a presidential poll. Election authority chief Sadi Guven said the president “received the absolute majority of all valid votes”. State media reports put Mr Erdogan on 53% with 99% of votes counted, and his closest rival Muharrem Ince on ...

At least 86 people have died in central Nigeria after violent clashes broke out between farmers and cattle herders, police in Plateau state said. Some reports say fighting began on Thursday when ethnic Berom farmers attacked Fulani herders, killing five of them. A retaliatory attack on Saturday led to more deaths. The area has a decades-long history of violence between ...

Integrated Community Anti-Litter Initiative (ICALI) Chairman Pascal Chikumbi has called on the Lusaka City Council to help government in reinforcing the law pertaining to street vending. Mr. Chikumbi has expressed concern that the local authorities have failed to keep Lusaka and other towns clean after the Army was removed from the streets. He says this is because the Municipality has ...

Senior Citizen Dante Saunders says it is heartbreaking that the current crop of politicians do not want to heed to advice coming from freedom fighters on the need to end political violence. Mr. Saunders tells QTV News that freedom fighters and senior citizens are worried with the current state of political violence being perpetrated by some politicians in the name ...

Lands Minister Jean Kapata says government is on course to see to it that former Miners who were retrenched two years ago get their plots as soon as possible. Ms. Kapata has revealed that the construction of the National Land Titling Centre which is based at the Show grounds in Lusaka has been completed saying this will help expedite the ...

United Prosperous and Peaceful Zambia (UPPZ) President Charles Chanda has challenged the PF Government to clearly come out over allegations that it has sold the Show Grounds in Lusaka. Mr. Chanda has told QTV News in an exclusive interview that information reaching his office is that this is the last time the show society will host the show in the ...