Health Minister Dr. Chitalu Chilufya says the construction the K180 million Levy Mwanawasa Medical School is nearing completion with construction works now at 95 percent complete. Speaking to journalists after inspecting the ongoing construction of the Levy Mwanawansa Medical School and University Teaching Hospital in Lusaka, in the company of Presidential affairs Minister Freedom Sikazwe, Dr. Chilufya says the hospital ...

President Edgar Lungu has met the China International Water and Electric Cooperation delegation that intends to invest into the construction of Batoka and Kalungwishi hydro power stations. The delegation met President Lungu at state house to express their interest to invest in the two hydro power stations. ZANIS reports that Company general manager Lui Zengxue said his company would like to ...

UPND leader Hakainde Hichilema has commended UPND members of parliament and other MPs that voted against the bill by government to increase various taxes on fuel,motor vehicles among others. The bill went through in parliament with the backing of Patriotic Front Members of Parliament who are in the majority in the house. Mr Hichilema says the UPND and other progressive ...

Speaker of the National Assembly Patrick Matibini has noted the dire need for definite measures to be taken in the context of the ongoing reform of the Public Order Act to ensure that Members of Parliament are able to execute their representative functions properly, efficiently and effectively. In a ruling on a point of order raised by Mazabuka Member of ...

Higher Education Minister Nkandu Luo says no single university in Zambia has been downgraded to a college status by Oxford University contrary to social media rumors. In a ministerial statement on the alleged downgrading of university in Zambia to college status, Professor Luo says it is not possible for a single university in the United Kingdom to downgrade all university ...

German Ambassador to Zambia Achim Burkart has described as a positive sign Zambia’s stance on the death penalty. Mr. Burkart says Germany has taken note of the announcement by the Zambian government that it will sign a moratorium on the execution of the death penalty. He has told QTV News that the question of whether the government will go ahead ...

The ruling PF says it considers the agitation that has arisen in the opposition following last Friday’s Constitutional Court ruling on President Lungu’s eligibility for the 2021 elections as positive feedback. PF chairperson for legal affairs Brian Mundubile says the dissenting voices over the Court’s decision to clear President Edgar Lungu to stand in 2021 only shows that the ruling ...

Chief Mphande of the Mambwe speaking people in Mbala District has observed that some traditional ceremonies are contributing to increasing cases of child marriage. He says some traditional ceremonies initiate girls that have reached puberty but are not taught about how to keep themselves from falling pregnant. Chief Mpande says the young girls once they reach puberty are being told ...