Save the children has welcomed cabinets decision to approve the child code bill for publication and introduction in parliament during the current sitting. Cabinet during its 13th meeting on 30th of June approved a total eight bills among them being “the children’s code bill, 2022” for publication and introduction in parliament during the current sitting. Save the children country director ...

Republican Vice President Mutale Nalumango says the new dawn UPND government has nothing to apologize for regards the unfulfilled campaign promises as it has not failed to deliver yet.  Speaking during the vice presidents question and answer session in parliament, Mrs. Nalumango stated that the new dawn government has only been in government for 9 months and hence it is ...

Zambia has so far received over 17 million doses of COVID 19 vaccines since the outbreak of the pandemic. And the country has today received a donation of 950,350 doses of J and J vaccines from the government of Canada. Speaking when he received the donation at the Kenneth Kaunda international Airport , Ministry of health permanent secretary in charge ...

The Ministry of Finance and National Planning has in june 2022, released a total of k1.3 billion for the Constituency Development Fund (CDF), social cash transfer programme, food security pack, and purchase of drugs and medical supplies. Of the Resources released the constituency development fund (CDF) got k605 million for on-going constituency-level capital projects, countrywide. This brings the total of ...

The Annual Inflation for June, 2022 as measured by Zambia Statistics Agency has decreased to 9.7% from 10.2% recorded in may 2022 with the slowdown being mainly attributed to price movements in both food and non-food items.  ZAMSTATS Statistician General Mulenga Musepa says june 2022 overall monthly inflation was recorded at 0.9% from 0.8% recorded in may 2022. He adds ...

National Union for Small Scale Farmers in Zambia (NUSFAZ) Executive Director Ebony Loloji has called on government to create an enabling environment for the small scale farmers in Zambia in order for them to meet the export demand. Mr. Loloji says in most instances, small scale farmers fail to meet the export demand because they do not have the capacity ...

Energy Expert Johnstone Chikwanda says he does not expect any changes to be made to the petroleum products pump prices. Mr. Chikwanda says this is because prices on the global market have not changed in any significant way even though they still remain very high. He notes that the global prices are projected to remain above 100 dollars per barrel ...

The United States Government has announced the launch of the U.S. agency for International Development (USAID) business enabling project, a five-year, $14 million initiative, subject to appropriations, designed to spur economic development in Zambia. The project is specifically focused on the development of rural communities. According to a statement availed to QTV news, the project will generate incentives for private-sector ...

Opposition New Heritage Party Vice President Samuel Kasankha says the announcement by government that stakeholder consultations over amendments to repeal the public order act will commence shortly is beginning to sound like a broken record in the manner it is being repetitive.  Mr. Kasankha says the new heritage party shares no excitement over this announcement because it believed so much ...

Economist Yusuf Dodia has called for more foreign currency to be brought into the economy and to export more as this will help the kwacha to become a strong currency. Mr. Dodia says the kwacha is currently deteriorating to a level where the kwacha is around 16 to 17 kwacha against strong currencies a situation he says seems to be ...