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United Party for National Development UPND National Chairperson Mutale Nalumango has dismissed social media reports suggesting that she intends to join the ruling Patriotic Front. Ms. Nalumango says the Patriotic Front has never been attractive ever since it formed government in 2011. She says she remains committed to UPND under the leadership of Hakainde Hichilema contrary to social media reports. ...

  President Edgar Lungu has directed the millers in the country to reduce the price of mealie meal. Speaking upon arrival at Chipata airport today, President Lungu says it is unacceptable that mealie meal is fetching as high as K120.00 when the millers are buying cheaper maize from the Food Reserve Agency. He says there is no reason for the ...

The Zambia Center for Inter Party Dialogue (ZCID) is pleased with the prompt response by some political parties to calls to stop their cadres from wearing military like uniforms. ZCID Executive Director Horrance Chilando says political parties must be recommended for heeding to the call by stakeholders to stop their cadres from wearing such uniforms. He says political parties should ...

Catholic Archbishop of Lusaka Telesphore Mpundu has called for the stiffening of laws in order to curb political violence in the country. Archbishop Mpundu tells QFM that cadres who perpetrate violence must be blacklisted and put behind bars. He points out that it is primitive for politicians to perpetrate political violence. Archbishop Mpundu has since urged the political leadership from ...

The University of Zambia Students Union (UNZASU) is saddened and disappointed with the move taken by government to scrap off the students’ meal allowance. UNZASU President Jones Mwewa says most of the students depend on the meal allowances not only for meals, but also use it for tuition, buying books and other school needs. Mr. Mwewa explains that a number ...

Zambia Youths Association in the Fight Against Corruption (ZYAFAC), has appealed to President Edgar Lungu to show leadership and ensure the decision to scrap off the meal allowance for the Copperbelt University and University of Zambia is rescinded with immediate effect. ZYFAC Executive Director Nickson Kanema tells QFM News in a walk in interview that the abolition of the meal ...

Government has disclosed that approximately 2, 700 kilometers of roads under phase I of the Link Zambia 8000 Road Project is under implementation out of which 678 km have been surfaced and opened to traffic. And the government has disclosed that as at September 21, 2015, a total of K980 million had been paid to local contractors on various roads ...

Defence Minister Richwell Siamunene has disclosed that the short listing of candidates to be recruited in the defence forces has been finalized. Delivering a ministerial statement in parliament this afternoon, Mr. Siamunene says the process has taken time because of the overwhelming response from applicants. Mr. Siamunene says a total of 168, 119 applications were received for the Zambia Air ...

Home Affairs Minister Davies Mwila says an investigation has been launched into the brutal beating by Police of a UPND cadre during the interrogation of UPND vice President for administration Geoffrey Mwamba at Woodlands Police Station. Mr. Mwila told Parliament in a ministerial statement that the investigation is meant to ascertain whether the clip of the beating took place in ...

UPND President Hakainde Hichilema has described as shocking and irresponsible the move by Government to suddenly and abruptly scrap the meal allowance for students at the Copperbelt University and the University of Zambia. In a statement, Mr. Hichilema notes that at a time when the price of food and essential items are fast increasing as a result of the PF’s ...