Mpika central constituency in Mpika district of Muchinga province has received k635, 000 for boarding school bursaries under the constituency development fund (CDF). Area member of parliament Francis Kapyanga has told Qtv news that the money is supposed to help vulnerable children who are in boarding schools. Mr. Kapyanga, however, reveals that the allocation towards boarding school bursaries is supposed ...

Parliament has heard that 4 out of 58 bottles each containing 1,000 HoneyBee paracetamol tablets supplied to Kasama general hospital were consumed by patients. In a ministerial statement to give the house an update on what led to the distribution of the quarantined HoneyBee paracetamol to Kabwe central and Kasama general hospitals by ZAMMSA, Minister of Health Sylvia Masebo says ...

The National Union for Public and Private Educators of Zambia (NUPPEZ) has called on government to expedite the process of recruiting thirty thousand teachers to cushion the teacher-pupil ratio in rural areas. NUPPEZ general secretary Nelson Mwale has observed that there are more science and technology teachers that need to be deployed to rural areas so that the pupils in ...

New Hope Movement for Multiparty Democracy (MMD) President Nevers Mumba SAYS THE proposed changes to the penal code are both uncalled for and unnecessary. Dr Mumba says issues to do with known Christian values are not up for sale to the highest bidder. In a statement made available to QTV News, Dr. Mumba says Zambians have not complained about the current laws ...

Some UPND youths have stormed the party secretariat disrupting a media briefing where the party was receiving defectors from the opposition patriotic front. The youths say they cannot accept the same patriotic front members who mistreated them when they were in opposition. They say the patriotic front members cannot change overnight, cautioning those receiving the defectors. but UPND Lusaka district ...

The ministry of foreign affairs and international cooperation says government continues to monitor very closely the situation in Ukraine following the political and security tension between Russia and Ukraine. In a statement, the ministry has, however, advised parents and guardians who would like to urgently evacuate their children from Ukraine to do so. It says numerous inquiries have been received ...

Energy expert Johnstone Chikwanda has predicted an upwards adjustment in the fuel pump price for the month of march 2022. this is in view of a seven-year high of us$99.38 cents a barrel in the price of brent crude oil, an international benchmark. Mr. Chikwanda notes that the political tension between russia and Ukraine has triggered the rise in the ...

Consumer Unity and Trust Society (CUTS) executive director Claudia pollen says the debt sustainability trajectory will become attainable once the united party for national development (UPND) administration becomes inclusively transparent in its dealings with bilateral creditors. Dr. Pollen is concerned that there too much secrecy around the country’s debt sustainability. She says debt sustainability will only become feasible once minister ...

A consultant at the university teaching hospital (UTH) pediatric oncology cancer diseases hospital has disclosed that 1 out of 5 children diagnosed with cancer in Zambia survives from the disease. Dr. Justin Mulindwa tells q-news in an interview that 80% of the cancer diseases are presented to the hospital in stage 3 or stage 4, which are advanced stages of ...

Chief Chamuka of Chisamba district in central province has appealed to education minister Douglas Siakalima to prioritise rural schools in the deployment of teachers to be recruited. he says rural schools continue grappling with the widening teacher-pupil ratio. In an interview with Qtv news, Chief Chamuka has also called on government to construct more schools in rural areas as a ...