Social Scientist Innocent Kolala says the substantial increase in the constituency development fund (CDF) means that decision making on the utilization of the funds should be broad. Mr Kolala tells QTV news that according to the CDF Act, the Member of Parliament is given power to formulate the CDF committee which is supposed to be looking into the disbursement of ...

Political and Governance Analyst Mark Simuuwe says government should have first engaged street vendors before the decision to remove them from the streets vendors was implemented, especially because street vending is not an offence according to the Zambian laws. Mr. Simuuwe tells QTV news that a survey should have been conducted to ascertain how many of these vendors are educated ...

The Ministry of Community Development has disclosed that over K300 million has been disbursed under the social cash transfer program in 2021 benefiting over 900,000 households. Ministry director for social welfare Kennedy Mumba who has described the program as a success tells Q-news that the years 2018 and 2019 where not good years for the implementation of the program as ...

The Treasury has released K837 million for social protection programmes. In a statement, Secretary to the Treasury Felix Nkulukusa says of the total amount,K255 million is targeted at pensioners  under the Public Service Pensions Fund(PSPF), and K50 million for those under the Local Authorities Superannuation Fund(LASF). Mr Nkulukusa says of the total released for social protection,K402 million is for the ...

Police in Lusaka have arrested a 33-year-old woman of Misisi compound for hitting her eight-year-old son with an iron bar on his genitals after she found him stealing a piece of chicken from a pot. Confirming the development, Police Spokesperson Rae Hamoonga says Police have formerly charged and arrested Jessy Banda for the offence of Assault on a Child Contrary ...

Government has directed all water utilities to scale up service delivery by improving the treatment of water to required standards. Speaking in Kitwe today when he called on district commissioner Lawrence Mwanza, Minister of waster development and sanitation Mike Mposha says Zambians are demanding for clean and safe drinking water, hence the need to upscale the supply and treatment of ...

The Water Resources Management Authority (WARMA) says all dam works must have a WARMA permit for both construction and modification in order to protect the environment and its inhabitants settled around the structure. In a statement following the bursting of the Mbabala dam in Choma, Southern province which led to floods to nearby residents downstream resulting in the death of ...

Two artists have been acquitted by the Choma Magistrate Court for the offence of insulting Former President Edgar Lungu in a political song released in January this year. Senior Resident Magistrate Peter Mungala dismissed the case after the State failed to bring witnesses to the Court since June this year when the case started. The court overlooked the states’ application ...

Seven Parliamentary candidates have successfully filed in their nominations with the Electoral Commission of Zambia (ECZ) in the Kabwata by-election slated for 20th January,2022. Mrs Mubita says the Rainbow Party communicated that they had challenges which has rendered them unable to file in, while the DP failed to avail their candidate within the premises of the nomination center by 15:00 ...

The country has recorded 3,907 new COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours out of 11,925 tests conducted, a 33 percent positivity. According to latest Covid-19 information made available by the Zambia National Public Health, seven deaths were also recorded in the last 24 hours bringing the cumulative death toll to 3,716. Eight hundred and sixty eighty recoveries were also ...