The entire Zambia Medicines and Medical Supplies Agency (ZAMMSA) management team has been sent on forced leave pending investigations into some serious anomalies including the distribution of defective medicines supplied by Honeybee Pharmaceuticals. The decision by the newly appointed ZAMMSA Board chaired by former Auditor General Anna Chifungula follows the admission by the agency that it distributed drugs under quarantine ...

Nyimba Town Council Secretary Samuel Chilombo says the local authority has made tremendous strides in raising public awareness on the guidelines for the Constituency Development Fund (CDF). Mr. Chilombo says following the decentralization in the implementation of CDF by the new dawn government, it is imperative that would be recipients understand their role in the whole process. Speaking to Q-News ...

Chief Ntambu of the Lunda speaking people in Mwinilunga District of North Western Province has demanded the involvement of the local people in running the 640 kilowatt Kasanjiku Mini Hydropower Station on the Kasanjiku Falls that supplies electricity to Ntambu and Sailunga Chiefdoms. Speaking when rural electrification authority (REA) Board Members paid a courtesy call on him today, Chief Ntambu ...

Motorists have appealed to government to urgently work on the Great North Road which has developed potholes pausing as a safety hazard. Some bus and truck drivers talked to have bemoaned the poor state of the road from 17 miles in Chibombo area up to Kabwe. The motorists lament that the potholes on the road are causing damage to vehicles ...

Zambia Railways Limited has described the death of two crew members in yesterday’s level crossing accidents as a big loss to the company. In a statement, ZRL Public Relations Manager Caristo Chitamfya says Zambia Railways Limited Acting Managing Director Fred Mwila is saddened by the accident. Mr. Chitamfya says the accident which happened at lukanda level crossing near the former ...

Governance, Elections, Advocacy, and Research Services (GEARS) Initiative Zambia Executive Director Macdonald Chipenzi believes there is no need to start the Constitution making process all over again as government considers refining the current constitution. Mr. Chipenzi rather, states that the process should start with looking at the report of the Technical Committee on Drafting the Constitution appointed in 2011. He ...

The Drug Enforcement Commission (DEC) says its Anti-Money Laundering Investigations Unit in 2021 investigated 219 money laundering related cases involving over K1 billion, over US$54 million and over 23 thousand Euros. In a statement on annual statistics, DEC Head Public Relations Mathias Kamanga says in the 219 cases that were recorded, 56 persons were arrested countrywide compared to 120 persons ...

UPND Leader Hakainde Hichilema President Hakainde Hichilema is expected to travel to Belgium to attend the sixth European Union-African Union summit to be held in Brussels from 17th to 18th February, 2022. In a statement obtained by Q-News, Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Minister Stanley Kakubo says the president will also travel to the Vatican City, after accepting an invitation ...

The Anti- Corruption Commission has charged and arrested former Lusaka Province Minister Bowman Lusambo’s wife for being in possession of properties reasonably suspected to be proceeds of crime worth USD 378,000. ACC Public Spokesperson Queen Chibwe says Mrs. Lusambo, 37, of Chamba Valley area in Lusaka, has been charged with four counts of possession of property reasonably suspected of being ...