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Political Activist Dante Saundershas disagreed with President Hakainde Hichilema’s request to parliament to consider removing death penalty from the laws of Zambia. Mr. Saunders says plunderers of national resources should be the ones to face death penalty because their crimes deprive Zambians of essential drugs in health facilities, quality education, provision of clean water and good sanitation which those plundered resources ...

THE Prisons Care and Counseling Association (PRISCA) has described as generous and unprecedented, the pardoning of over 2,000 prisoners by President Hakainde Hichilema. President HAKAINDE HICHILEMA has pardoned 2,045 inmates to mark this year’s Africa Freedom Day WHICH FALLS TODAY, of which 1,969 are ordinary inmates and 33 old aged. PRISCA executive director, Godfrey Malembeka says the gesture is unprecedented ...

Energy Expert Johnston Chikwanda predicted a moderate upwards adjustment in fuel pump prices when the Energy Regulation Board reviews prices this month. Mr Chikwanda notes that this is considering that currently, the price of crude oil on the international market has moderately gone up to 113 dollars a barrel compared to an average of 103 dollars. He says this is ...

Infrastructure, HOUSING and Urban Development Minister, Charles Milupi says government will by the end of July this year close the deal for commencement of works on the Lusaka-Ndola dual carriageway. Speaking in an exclusive interview with Q-News, Mr. Milupi has acknowledged that most trunk roads in the country such as the Lusaka-Copperbelt and the Great North road from Serenje going ...

Zambia Climate Change Network (ZCCN) Project Development Officer, Ali Kaunda has attributed the reduction in Zambia’s life expectancy currently at less than 55-years to the consumption of non-organic foods. Mr. Kaunda says consumption of food that is as a result of chemicals in most cases results in human body reactions that even lead to reduction in one’s life span due ...

Calvin Kaleyi The Zambia National Farmers Union (ZNFU) has backed government’s position to allow the continued export of maize despite the country recording a reduction in the production of the crop from the 2021/2022 season. ZNFU Media and Public Relations Officer, Calvin Kaleyi says where the country can export the excess maize it would be right to do so in ...

Historian, Dr. Euston Chiputa has charged that those reporting people for Defamation of the President in far flung areas are endangering their lives. Dr. Chiputa who is a lecturer at the University of Zambia has told QTV news that this is considering that the suspects have to be transported by road to faraway places putting them at risk of road ...

The Foundation for Democratic Process (FODEP) has observed that the country has not yet gotten to a point where people are able to associate freely. FODEP President, Mwenda Mumbuna says the country is still witnessing incidents where some ruling party cadres are still harassing people. Mr Mumbuna says this is unfortunate because Zambians voted against such in the 2021 elections. ...

The Zambian Diaspora Foundation is urging the new dawn administration to fast track interaction with their Angolan counterparts with regards the implementation of the SADC protocol on Regional trade and Investment to make it easier for the private sector to easily trade with each other. Foundation Executive Director, Dean Mulozi says the Foundation is impressed with UPND administration’s intentions to ...

The opposition Economic Front has called on government to reopen Chambishi Metals Plc and Chibuluma Mine Plc. Party Chairperson for Mines and Mineral Development, Shadreck Mwale is disappointed to see government spending sleepless nights fighting political opponents in the name of fighting corruption instead of using that energy to engage the owners of Chambishi Metals and Chibuluma Mine to reopen ...