President Edgar Lungu has urged the church to be above politics. And President Lungu says the church should help capacitate the Zambia Centre for Interparty Dialogue to lead the dialogue process. The President says the Zambia centre for inter-party dialogue is the institution mandated to head all dialogue processes saying the church is welcome to be part of the dialogue ...

The World Bank has acknowledged that increasing agriculture production is key in responding to the poverty that most rural Zambians are experiencing. World Bank Zambia Agriculture Economist Christine Heumesser says global evidence has shown that high productivity in the agriculture sector is needed for the transition from poverty in a sustainable way. Ms. Heumesser however says this should be coupled ...

A political analyst, Alex Ng’oma has advised the opposition political parties to offer solutions to the current state of national affairs following the cutting of aid to the country by some cooperating partners. Dr. Ngoma has told qtv news that this is not the time for oppositional political parties to celebrate or start issuing statements that their corruptions allegation has ...

Scores of Kitwe’s Chimwemwe township residents on Friday night raided some Chinese owned shops in the township after word went round that one of the shop owners had killed a Zambian national. Police Public Relations Officer Esther Katongo has revealed that a 17 year female of Chimwemwe township, Kitwe was shot and wounded on her right ankle by Gao Em ...

Manchester United will be missing five players for Saturday’s Premier League home game against Wolverhampton Wanderers, with Diogo Dalot to be rested, Marcos Rojo and Ander Herrera not fully fit and Nemanja Matic and Marcus Rashford suspended. Dalot, who was signed from Porto in the close season, impressed on his United debut in their 3-0 Champions League win over Switzerland’s ...

Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola returns to the touchline for the Premier League champions’ visit to Cardiff City looking for his team to recover from a shock midweek home defeat to Lyon. The City manager, serving a one-match Uefa suspension for being sent to the stands in last season’s quarterfinal defeat to Liverpool, watched in horror from the stands as ...

Sir Elton John and David Furnish have accepted “significant” libel damages over a newspaper allegation that their dog inflicted “Freddy Krueger-like” injuries on a child at a play date. The couple brought proceedings against News Group Newspapers over a front page story in The Sun on Sunday in February. Their solicitor said the injuries were not serious and that the ...

Pop singer, actress and designer Rihanna can add another accolade to her growing list of achievements after being given a new ambassadorial role by the government of Barbados. The artist, whose full name is Robyn Rihanna Fenty, was named “Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary” for her home country on Thursday. The role involves promoting education, tourism and investment. Prime Minister Mia ...

European Council President Donald Tusk has said a compromise with the UK over Brexit is “still possible”, after Theresa May warned she was prepared to walk away from talks. In a statement, Mr Tusk said he was a “true admirer” of the PM. But he defended the EU’s approach and said it was in fact Mrs May who had been ...

US Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein has denied a report that he discussed invoking a constitutional clause to oust President Donald Trump. America’s second most senior law official said the allegation was “inaccurate and factually incorrect”. The New York Times, citing anonymous sources, also said Mr Rosenstein had suggested secretly recording Mr Trump to expose chaos in the White House. ...