Daily Archives: March 15, 2019

Spurs draw Man City in Champions League

Tottenham will play Manchester City in the Champions League quarter-finals, while Manchester United have been drawn against Barcelona. Last year’s beaten finalists Liverpool will play Porto and Ajax will face Juventus in the other ties. The semi-final draw was also made and Manchester United will meet Liverpool if both win their last-eight ties. The quarter-final first legs take place on ...

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Paris Jackson: ‘Not my role’ to defend dad

Paris Jackson has said it is “not my role” to publicly defend father Michael against allegations of abuse. The 20-year-old was speaking a week after the broadcast of Leaving Neverland, a documentary in which two men accused Jackson of sexually abusing them as children. “There’s nothing I can say that hasn’t already been said in regards to defence,” the model ...

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New Zealand mosque shootings kill 49

Forty-nine people have been killed and at least 20 wounded in shootings at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern described the incident as a terrorist attack and one of New Zealand’s “darkest days”. A man in his late twenties was charged with murder and will appear in court on Saturday morning, police confirmed. Two other men ...

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Hamududu proposes presidential question time in Parliament

Party of National Unity (PNU) president Highvie Hamududu has noted the need to change the Constitution to allow the Republican President address Parliament more than twice a year. Mr. Hamududu wants Zambia to be in tandem with other democratic Countries where heads of states address Parliaments more than twice in a year. He has told QTV News the Republican Constitution ...

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Cochrane-Dyet hails emphasis on Corruption in EL’s speech to Parliament

British High Commissioner to Zambia Fergus Cochrane-Dyet has hailed President Edgar Lungu for placing emphasis on the fight against corruption in his State of the Nation address to Parliament. Mr. Cochrane-Dyet says corruption remains one of the biggest challenges Zambia is currently facing. In an interview with QTV, Mr. Cochrane-Dyet says he is heartened that in his address to Parliament ...

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President Lungu orders arrest of perpetrators of violence

President Edgar Lungu has called for perpetrators of political violence to be brought to book regardless of political affiliation. Delivering his State of the Nation address on the application of national values and principles in Parliament, President Lungu says political violence threatens national unity. He says no one is above the law, and that anyone who goes against the law ...

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Withdraw from dialogue, Kalumba urges CCZ, EFZ, ZCCB

Zambia Center for Interparty Dialogue (ZCID) Trustee Katele Kalumba has advised the three church mother bodies namely Council of Churches of Zambia, Evangelical Fellowship of Zambia and the Zambia Conference of Catholic Bishops to withdraw their facilitation of the national dialogue. Dr Kalumba says the leaders of the three church mother bodies should realize that they are being unfair to ...

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