ZESCO Corporate Affairs Manager Dr John Kunda has encouraged citizens to make submissions to the Energy Regulation Board (ERB) on ZESCO’s proposal to increase electricity connection fees by more than 200%. Dr. Kunda says what ZESCO is proposing is a true reflection of the cost of connection materials on the market. He says the approval of the proposed fees by the ERB will ...

The Zambia Police says the 8 suspects arrested to help with investigations into the abduction Mobile money agent Pamela Chisumpa are cooperating. Speaking in an interview with Q news, Police deputy spokesperson Danny Mwale says investigations in the matter are currently going on well. Mr Mwale has assured the public that police will soon disclose what evidence they have so ...

Minister of Water Development and Sanitation Mike Mposha has granted a 90 days amnesty effective today to illegal water users so that they can normalize their illegalities. Mr Mposha has warned that any water users who will fail to take advantage of this amnesty will be dealt with in accordance with the law He says the nomalisation of the illegalities ...

The Zambia Air Force and the Game Rangers International have joined the Department of National Parks and Wildlife in searching for the stray lions that are on the loose in Kafue District. Ministry of Tourism Permanent Secretary Evans Muhanga says the Lions have been illusive and his Ministry is concerned with the security risk they pause to human life. Mr. ...

Former Disaster Management and Mitigation Unit (DMMU) National Coordinator Chanda Kabwe has lashed out and dared the public accounts committee to recommend for his arrest if it feels he abused his office in the procurement of reusable face masks for 58 districts that were at the risk of the covid-19 pandemic. During its last sitting, the public accounts committee heard ...

Minister of Small and Medium Enterprise Development Elias Mubanga says the New Dawn government is aware of the challenge of access to affordable finance by Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs)and is not sitting idle over the matter. Mr. Mubanga says government through his ministry has already asked lending institutions to come up with various packages tailored for SMEs. The Minister ...

Former youth and sport minister Emmanuel Mulenga has denied allegations that he was involved in the  fraudulent procurement of the fuel tankers meant for youth empowerment. And Mr Mulenga says former President Edgar Lungu did not donate the tankers to the youth, but simply launched the empowerment programme. The ministry of youth and sport has been cited in the Auditor ...

Rihanna has announced that her Fenty Beauty and Fenty Skin products will become available in eight African countries from the end of this month. In a social media post, the pop star said she had “been waiting for this moment” and that this was “just the beginning”. The beauty products will be available in Botswana, Ghana, Kenya, Namibia, Nigeria, South ...

The families of two of eight miners trapped by flood waters in a zinc mine in Burkina Faso last month are hopeful the workers will be found alive. “It’s been three weeks of sleepless nights for all of us,” a cousin of one of the trapped men told the BBC. There has been no contact with them and a wife ...

The Ministry of Health says over 30,000 of sunscreen lotion has been procured and is expected to be available for distribution to persons living with albinism by next week. Ministry of health Assistant director pharmaceuticals, Mathews Mwale has told Q news that the SP30 and SP50 Sunscreen lotion which will come in quantities of 15,000 each was included as part ...