The Health Professions Council of Zambia has with immediate effect withdrawn recognition and approval of some programmes at four universities in the country because they are not certified to operate as higher education institutions. The decision comes after the recent pronouncement by the Higher Education Authority (HEA) to effect that 30 higher education institutions are not certified to operate as ...

Caritas Zambia is deeply saddened that the final decisions of the conference of parties (cop24) on climate change recently held in Katowice, Poland from 3rd to 14th December, 2018 did not reflect the essential elements in the protection of human rights affected by climate change. Caritas Programme Specialist Livelihoods and Climate Change Programme, Musamba Mubanga states that the preamble of ...

University of Zambia (UNZA) Political Science Lecturer Professor Bizeck Phiri has advised stakeholders in the National Dialogue Process to accommodate each other if the discourse is to be successful. Professor Phiri says the sustenance of the national dialogue process and reconciliation solely depends on the extent to which the stakeholders will accommodate each other. Meanwhile Prof. Phiri has described the ...

The cabinet has decided to “ramp up” preparations for a no-deal Brexit amid uncertainty over the fate of Theresa May’s proposed EU exit deal. Ministers approved £2bn to go to government departments to help if the UK leaves the EU on 29 March without a formal agreement. They will also send letters to 140,000 firms advising them about preparations. Labour, ...

UPND Presidential Advisor Douglas Syakalima says his party will remember 2018 as an economically and socially wasted year. Mr. Syakalima says the upnd shares the lamentation of many other Zambians that the economic conditions in the year ending 2018 have been very difficult to cope with. In an interview with QTV News, Mr. Syakalima says there is equally nothing to ...

Manchester United have sacked manager Jose Mourinho after identifying a catalogue of his failings at the club. The Portuguese, 55, took over in May 2016 and led United to League Cup and Europa League titles, but they are 19 points behind league leaders Liverpool. The club have made a change after no progress with results or style despite spending nearly ...

Transparency International Zambia (TIZ) has launched an online initiative to facilitate the engagement of members of the public in the social movement against corruption in the country. TIZ Executive Director Wesley Chibamba says the new system will enable people access information and report suspected corruption cases in real time. Mr. Chibamba explains that through this platform, the people will get ...

The Zambia Institute of Chartered Accountants (ZICA) has called for the urgent appointment of the auditor general. Addressing a Fourth Quarter Media briefing on various national matters, ZICA President Jason Kazilimani says as a professional accountancy body, ZICA is concerned that the office of the auditor general remains unoccupied when it is a very important governance institution which should not ...

Government has been urged to take seriously reports of people surviving of mangoes due to hunger in some parts of country. UPND Chairperson for Rural Development and Reconstruction, Moono Mapani says government should realize that reports of hunger breaking out in the rural areas of the Country are real. Mr. Mapani tells Q-News that there is need therefore for government ...

Public health specialist Beck Banda is demanding K15 million compensation from the United Nations Population Fund (UNPFA) for allegedly infringing upon the copyright of his innovation. Dr. Banda claims to have initiated the Safe Motherhood Action Groups (SMAGs) which the UNPFA allegedly now uses as its own initiative which is also being used by some other 40 organizations. In an ...