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Health Minister Joseph Kasonde has explained the delay in completing the construction of 650 health posts countrywide. Dr. Kasonde is however optimistic that the 2016 completion deadline will be met. He says there has been an interruption of works on the health posts because of the poor performance by one of the contractors Angelique International Limited. Dr. Kasonde explains that ...

Youths in the Country have been encouraged to cautiously guard against misplacing the confidence that President Edgar Lungu has shown to work with them in government. The youths are being urged to realize that the opportunity that they have been given by President Lungu to be part of decision making is a rare privilege they should take seriously. Patriotic Front ...

The Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) has called on the private sector in the region to link locally owned enterprises to the supply chain of corporate companies. Speaking during the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding between COMESA Business Council (CBC) and Taj Pamodzi Hotel in Lusaka today, CBC Chief Executive Officer Sandra Uwera says this must ...

Zambia Youths Association in the Fight Against Corruption (ZYAFAC) has come up with a twenty five points document dubbed “securing the future of our children’s children” highlighting what it says are failed promises of the ruling Patriotic Front since coming to power in 2011. The document signed by ZYAFAC Executive Director Rickson Kanema and deputy director of Administration Chewe Musonda ...

Matero Member of Parliament Miles Sampa says his purported emissaries to President Edgar Lungu should be arrested for impersonation and misrepresentation. Mr. Sampa has told Qfm News by telephone that this is because he has never sent any emissaries to speak on his behalf to State House. He says he does not have any spokesperson and usually speaks for himself ...

The Electoral Commission of Zambia is confident it will meet the target of registering 1.7 million new voters ahead of the 2016 general election. ECZ Director Priscilla Isaacs says with intensified sensitization to encourage eligible voters to register, the target looks attainable. She however says more needs to be done and has called on the media to help sensitize people ...

The Foundation for Democratic Process (FODEP) has observed that delayed rains in most parts of the country are a blessing in disguise to the mobile issuance of National Registration Cards and the voter registration exercise especially in flood prone areas. FODEP has appealed to the Ministry of Home Affairs and the Electoral Commission of Zambia to expedite the two exercises ...

State House says government through the Road Development Agency (RDA) is on course in meeting K1.35 billion 2015 toll gates tax target. The President’s Special Assistant for Project Monitoring and Implementation Lucky Mulusa could however not disclose how much has so far been collected in toll fees. Mr. Mulusa has on the other hand told Qfm News that some of ...

The opposition UPND says government should come to terms that the recently launched electronic voucher system under the Farmer Input Support Programme (FISP) is a flop. UPND Chairman for Rural Reconstruction and Development Moono Mapani says government should realize that it is punishing farmers in the 13 pilot districts where the program is being implemented because the program is not ...

Mines Minister Christopher Yaluma has echoed President Edgar Lungu’s call for mining companies to handover the mines if they have failed to run their operations. Mr. Yaluma says the position of the government is that if mining companies have fail to manage the mines to the extent of threatening jobs, government will take over the mines in the interim until ...