Cabinet has approved the construction of the new Luangwa Bridge across the Luangwa River in Luangwa district at an estimated cost of US$75.5 million. This was during the first Cabinet meeting in 2022 held yesterday, 8th February 2022. In a statement obtained by Q-News, Chief Government Spokesperson, Chushi Kasanda says government will contribute approximately US$7.5 million as counterpart funding while ...

Ruling UPND Secretary General Batuke Imenda says he was misquoted by the News Diggers newspaper in the story in which he is quoted telling the youth that the UPND did not sign a contract to employ them. Speaking during a media briefing in Lusaka today, Mr Imenda has since challenged the tabloid to produce evidence to back up their claims ...

Oriental Quarries Boxing Promotions Manager Christopher Malunga has declared that the stable is ready to host the WBC Super Bantam Weight fight between Zambia’s Catherine Phiri and Zimbabwean Kudakwashe Chiwandire. The WBC Championship bout which was initially supposed to be staged on 29th January is set to be held on 26th February, 2022 at the Government Complex in Lusaka. And ...

Civil Rights Activist Brebner Changala has charged that the arrest of former President Edgar Lungu’s Aide De Camp Chisanga Chanda is harassment, further describing the whole ordeal as abusive. Mr. Changala says government should be cautious in with the former Head of State’s office knowing very well that he has a following and a political party he belongs to. He has ...

Historian professor Bizeck Phiri says the opposition Patriotic Front should not be dismissed as a dead party following its performance in the recent Kabwata Parliamentary by-election won by the ruling UPND. Professor Phiri says Patriotic Front Candidate Clement Tembo gave the UPND a good run which should not be downplayed. He has noted that during by-elections, the party in power ...

Government has clarified that the 198 million Kwacha recently released by the treasury for secondary boarding schools bursaries and skills training development is part of the K25.7 million Constituency Development Fund. Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development Permanent Secretary for Administration Mambo Hamaundu says these monies are therefore available in constituencies. Mr. Hamaundu says the constituencies are supposed to evaluate ...

United Party for National Development (UPND) deputy National Youth Chairperson for politics and mobilization Trevor Mwiinde has condemned the recent arrest of UPND Deputy National Youth Chairman for administration Stephen Chikota by Police in Chembe. Police in Luapula Province apprehended 24 UPND members in connection with the Muombe Mine fracas that happened in Chembe District over the weekend. Those picked ...

GEARS Initiative Zambia Executive Director McDonald Chipenzi has challenged the Zambia Police to come out clean state whether or not it is true that former president Edgar Lungu’s Aide de camp  Chisanga Chanda was being questioned by someone who is not an investigative officer. Mr. Chanda’s lawyer Makebi Zulu claims his client was interrogated by among others, an official from ...