Information and Broadcasting Services Minister, Dora Siliya has encouraged local broadcasting stations to make use of opportunities that have been created following Zambia’s digital migration. Speaking at the Digital Broadcasting Conference in Lusaka, Ms. Siliya says focus should now change from the digital migration policy to digital broadcasting policy and its subsequent laws to complete it. Ms. Siliya says this is ...

Minister of Health, Dr. Chitalu Chilufya says government is committed to increasing the budgetary allocation towards nutrition in the coming fiscal year. In a speech read on his behalf by Permanent Secretary in-charge of Training Professor Elwyn Chomba at the launch of the East and Southern Africa Nutrition Budget Commitment report, Dr. Chilufya says government has demonstrated its commitment by ...

The inevitable has happened. After a dreadful start to a season in which they have lost four of their first 10 La Liga games and dropped to ninth in the table, Real Madrid have sacked Julen Lopetegui. The identity of the man replacing him is something of a surprise, especially to outsiders. Santiago Solari is a relatively unknown figure even ...

At least seven people have been killed in a raging fire along South Africa’s popular Garden Route in the Western Cape province, officials say. A pregnant woman, two toddlers, and a baby are among the fatalities. “The fire remains active on the slopes,” Lauren Howard from Working on Fire said about their operation in the mountainous suburb in George city. ...

An ex-nurse in Germany has admitted at the start of his trial that he murdered 100 patients, making him one of the world’s most prolific serial killers. Detectives say Niels Högel administered fatal doses of medication to the people in his care – causing cardiac arrest – at two hospitals in northern Germany. His motive, prosecutors say, was to impress ...

The Central Statistics office says a total of K820 million will be required to successfully undertake the 2020 population and housing census. CSO Director, Goodson Sinyenga says the 2020 census will be conducted electronically using tablets and electronic questionnaires for acquisition of data. Mr. Sinyenga has explained that the K820 million will be used for procurement of the tablets, procurement ...

Vice president Inonge Wina says the two point Seven Million British Pounds from the British government meant for social cash transfer program alleged to have been abused was kept in a bank account because the ministry of community development wanted to address the challenges in the disbursement of the funds through Zampost. In a statement to parliament, Ms Wina says ...

Speaker of the National Assembly has directed Information and Broadcasting Services Dora Siliya to issue a ministerial statement outlining the editorial policy of the Times of Zambia on the use of languages. This follows a point of order raised by Monze central Member of Parliament Jack Mwiimbu on whether Chinese had become one of Zambia’s official languages following the publication ...

Government has been urged to seriously consider calling for a stakeholders’ meeting on the failure by the Food Reserve Agency (FRA) to meet its 2018 maize purchase target. BuyZed Campaign founder, Evans Ngoma says if it is true that the FRA has failed to meet its target of 500,000 metric tons of maize because farmers are holding on to the ...

Eastern Province Permanent Secretary Chanda Kasolo has disclosed that a conglomerate is planning to set up a fossil fuel power generation plant in the province. Mr. Kasolo says the conglomerate will work with a a local company called Chipata Power Generation Limited in setting up a plant. In an interview with Q- News, Mr. Kasolo says once the power generation ...