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 ...

Manchester City returned to the top of the Premier League as Riyad Mahrez’s early goal gave them victory over Tottenham in a scrappy encounter on a Wembley surface scarred by Sunday’s NFL game. Former Leicester City forward Mahrez, who swept home Raheem Sterling’s sixth-minute cross, dedicated his goal to Foxes owner Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha, who was killed in a helicopter crash ...

A German former nurse accused of murdering 100 patients is due to go on trial in the northern town of Oldenburg. Detectives say Niels Hoegel, 41, administered fatal doses of medication to the people in his care at two hospitals in northern Germany. His motive, they say, was to impress colleagues by trying to resuscitate the very patients he had ...

Drones and sonar technology have been deployed in Indonesia to search for a Lion Air passenger plane which crashed into the sea on Monday. Flight JT 610 went down after taking off from Jakarta with 189 passengers and crew on board. There has been no sign of survivors but debris and personal belongings have been collected from the water. There ...

Campaign for Female Education (CAMFED) Zambia Board Chairperson, Professor Dickson Mwansa says continuous assessment of students will help address the issue of examination leakage in the country. Professor Mwansa has told q-news that most pupils embrace leakage because they lack continuous assessment which would determine their level of intellectual quality for a final exam. He says government through the Ministry ...

The Zambia Center for Inter party Dialogue (ZCID) says the outcome of today’s meeting by the three church mother bodies will not affect its national dialogue road map in anyway. ZCID Spokesperson, Jackson Silavwe says the ZCID remains focused on how it will handle the dialogue process and is not following what the church mother bodies are doing. Mr. Silavwe ...