ZESCO Limited has announced a 200 percent increase in electricity tariffs effective 1st October,2019. The six months increase in electricity tariffs is meant to offset the cost of importing 300 megawatts of power from South Africa to mitigate the power deficit the country is facing. Speaking at a media briefing, ZESCO Director Strategy and Corporate Services Patrick Mwila says the ...

Lionel Messi won the Fifa Men’s Player of the Year award on Monday with Megan Rapinoe bagging the women’s prize to cap a historic year for the United States’ World Cup icon. Barcelona striker Messi’s victory in Milan was a surprise as he edged out Virgil Van Dijk, who won the Uefa player’s award last month after helping Liverpool to ...

Pop superstar Ed Sheeran has said he is “made up” to have been asked to design a music-themed Blue Peter badge to mark BBC Music Day on 26 September. He said: “Music was really important to me growing up and I hope this badge will inspire more kids to get into it.” The multi-coloured new badge features the Blue Peter ...

Iran has rejected a joint statement by the leaders of France, Germany and the UK who blamed it for attacks earlier this month on Saudi oil installations. Iran’s foreign minister accused them of “parroting absurd US claims”. The European leaders said there was no other plausible explanation for the attacks, which shut down half of Saudi Arabia’s oil production. But ...

The highest court in the UK is set to make a historic ruling on whether Boris Johnson’s decision to suspend Parliament for five weeks was lawful. Ministers say the suspension, or prorogation, is not a court matter, but critics argue it was intended to limit scrutiny of the PM’s Brexit plans. If the judgement – due at 10:30 BST – ...

The Transparency International Zambia has called on Finance Minister Bwalya Nga’ndu to increase the budgetary allocation to the anti-corruption commission in the 2020 national budget TIZ Chapter President Reuben Lifuka has told QTV news that the anti corruption commission should be adequately funded to effectively fight corruption in the country. He says increased funding will enable the acc to have ...

Government says it will not succumb to any pressure both from within or outside the Country to declare the current hunger situation a national emergency. Disaster Management and Mitigation Unit (DMMU) National Coordinator Chanda Kabwe has maintained that government is on top of things and is responding to the hunger situation adequately. Mr Kabwe states that only six percent of ...

The Energy Regulation Board has announced an increase in fuel pump prices effective midnight 23rd September,2019. In a statement, ERB Board Chairperson Raymond Mpundu says petrol has been increased from K15.20 ngwee to K15.98 per litre representing an increase of 78 ngwee. Mr Mpundu says diesel has been increased from K13.43 ngwee to K14.23 per litre an increase of 80ngwee. ...

Higher Education Minister, Brian Mushimba says the delayed payment of stipends to students studying in Russia has been resolved. Commenting on the letter that has been circulating on social media purported to be from an anonymous student in Russia complaining that the students on government scholarships have gone and go for months without receiving their stipends, Dr. Mushimba has acknowledged ...

ZRA Corporate Communications Manager Topsy Sikalinda (Picture by Albert Mpezeni) The Zambia Revenue Authority (ZRA) has seized a truckload of Konyagi alcohol which was deliberately misclassified as building materials with intent to defraud the state of over k730,000. ZRA Corporate Communications Manager, Topsy Sikalinda says had the alcohol been cleared as hardware it would have only paid k43, 698 instead ...