Chief Government Spokesperson Chushi Kasanda says government is deeply disturbed by the blantant abuse of freedom of expression exhibited by Patriotic Front Chairperson for Publicity and Information Raphael Nakacinda. In a statement obtained by Q-News, Ms Kasanda says the freedom of expression, which was promised by the UPND and which is now being promoted by the UPND Alliance administration is ...

Government says it will increase the number of beneficiaries for the Keeping Girls in School Project to 86,000 in 2022. Ministry of Education Permanent Secretary for Administration Noriana Muneku says this is in order to fill up the gap for the numbers the project has failed to meet from the time the project was initiated in 2015. Mrs. Muneku has ...

President Hakainde Hichilema has disclosed that government has disbursed the Local Government Equalization Fund to all 116 councils across the country, in full. President Hichilema has further announced that government has also cleared the CDF for 2021 for all 156 constituencies. In a Facebook post on his page monitored by Q-news, President Hichilema says every constituency and council is now ...

The State has made an amendment to the indictment in which the proprietors of the infamous 48 houses, Charles Mukomena Loyana and his wife Susan Sinkala are facing two charges of corrupt practices involving K37 million. The indictment is now indicating 51 houses. In the first count, Mr. Loyana aged 51 and Mrs Loyana aged 46 of House Number 2728 ...

Zambia National Public Health Institute Director General Professor Victor Mukonka says the rise in the country’s COVID-19 positivity rate from 1% to 5% calls for combined efforts in the implementation of necessary measures to combat the new variant. Professor Mukonka says Zambia has noted and embraced genomic sequencing as a critical additional tool in the response to COVID-19 and other ...

The Department of Immigration has denied searching and breaking into the house of footballer Stophilla Sunzu’s father, Felix Nsunzu, and forcefully taking him for questioning over his nationality and papers to allow him stay in Zambia. Immigration department public relations officer, Namati Nshinka has however, clarified that it is true that Mr. Nsunzu was among the Twenty (20) persons rounded ...

UNDER-fire outspoken Patriotic Front Chairman for Information and Publicity Raphael Nakacinda has been reported to the Police by a group of UPND youths for defamation of the President following his recent remarks alleging that President Hakainde Hichilema is summoning judges to his house to compromise their judicial integrity. And UPND Lusaka province Youth chairman Anderson Banda has ordered party youths ...

Operation Young Vote (OYV) has described as wild and contemptuous utterances by PF Chairperson for information and publicity Raphael Nakacinda that President Hakainde Hichilema is summoning some judges to his house to influence their handling of cases and outcomes with a view of taking Zambia back to a one party State. OYV Execvutive Director Guess has since recommended that the ...

Amazon is facing questions over health and safety policies at a warehouse in the US state of Illinois after six workers died when the building was destroyed by a tornado. “This never would have happened if they cared about lives over productivity,” the sister of one of the victims commented on social media. The company says its team had “worked ...

An appeals court in France has cleared Congolese music star Koffi Olomidé of sexually assaulting four of his former dancers, but convicted him of holding the women against their will. The court overturned a 2019 ruling that found him guilty of the statutory rape of one of the dancers when she was 15. But he was convicted of depriving the women ...