The Zambia Council for Social Development (ZCSD) has advised government to quickly come up with measures that will help respond to effects of a possible recurrence of El Niño. ZCSD Executive Director Pascal Bwalya has told QTV News in an interview that warning of a possible El Niño whose effects may impact on Zambia should not be ignored. Mr. Bwalya ...

Minister  of Labor Joyce Simukoko says the process of reforming the Pension Scheme to make it provide adequate benefits and be sustainable has reached an advanced stage. Ms. Simukoko says the pension scheme reforms will entail the restructuring of the pension schemes, harmonizing the legal framework and redesigning the rules. She says the reforms will enable workers have their retirement ...

The mounting of hand held speed cameras by traffic police officers on parts of the roads that have been covered by speed cameras has been abolished with immediate effect. Minister of Home Affairs Stephen Kampyongo has also with immediate effect directed the police command to plan and execute regular rotations and transfers of officers from general duties to traffic and ...

The Millennium Challenge Account project, Smart Water Supply Scheme in Lusaka’s Jack Compound has been officially handed over to government. The project which includes installation of the Water network, an elevated water tank and solar power pumps has expanded access to clean drinking water for 25, 000 residents in the compound. And President Edgar Lungu who officiated at the handover ...

Vice President Inonge Wina dispelled assertions that District Commissioners are using government vehicles to campaign for the ruling PF candidate in the Mangango Parliamentary by-election. Mrs. Wina says such assertions are only assumptions. Speaking during the Vice President’s Question Time in Parliament Mrs. Wina said District Commissioners are not allowed to participate in election campaigns. Mrs. Wina says she also ...

President Edgar Lungu is this Sunday expected to be on the Copperbelt for a one day working visit. Copperbelt Province Minister Japhen Mwakalombe has confirmed that President Lungu’s program will start with a church service at Pentecostal Assemblies of God in Chifubu, Ndola. Mr. Mwakalombe says after the church meeting President Lungu will later in the day officially commission the ...

Zambia is likely to receive normal to below normal rainfall in the 2018/2019 rainy reason. Minister of Transport and Communication Brian Mushimba has disclosed that the rainfall forecast indicates that the rainy season in the Country will start by late November this year. Mr. Mushimba states that the season will start from the northern parts of the Country and will ...

Leicester manager Claude Puel says the result is “not important” when they play Cardiff on Saturday – their first match since the club’s owner died in a helicopter crash at the weekend. Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha and four others were killed in the crash outside King Power Stadium on Saturday. Puel says it was the Leicester players’ decision to go ahead with ...

Two former Goldman Sachs bankers and Malaysian financier Jho Low have been hit with US criminal charges in connection with one of the world’s biggest financial scandals. The Department of Justice alleges the men participated in a scheme that stole billions of dollars from Malaysia’s development fund, 1MDB. One former Goldman banker pleaded guilty, the department said. The other banker ...

Roan Member of Parliament Chishimba Kambwili has been ejected from parliament after refusing to withdraw his remark warning ministers that they will be jailed once the pf is out of power. Mr Kambwili made the remarks when debating the budgetary allocation to the ministry of information and broadcasting services. Second Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly Mwiimba Malama asked Mr ...