LOCAL

Police in Choma have arrested four suspects who have been terrorizing the residents and are linked to the current spate of robberies in the district. Southern Province Police Commissioner Bonny Kapeso says workers from lodges have been targets of attacks by the suspects. Mr. Kapeso has named the suspects as Kelvin  Malambo, 22, Brian Silemu, 25, Joseph Mulenga, 19, and ...

Patriotic Front Deputy Spokesperson Frank Bwalya has dismissed as a fabrication media reports in which he is quoted to have condemned the Police for blocking the UPND’s Kanyama rally. Mr. Bwalya says he did not issue the statement circulating online in which he purportedly labeled the Police as being unprofessional for stopping the UPND rally from taking place. In an ...

People party president Mike Mulongoti has charged that corruption has prevented the Government Printers from being awarded contracts to print ballot papers despite its capacity to do so. Mr. Mulongoti who once served as works and supply Minister under whose ministry the facility fell under has told Qfm news that the Government printers has adequate equipment and staff to print ...

President Edgar Lungu has been urged to always ensure that all policy pronouncements government makes are implemented. Opposition Economic and Equity Party (EEP) President Chilufya Tayali has noted with concern that most of the policy pronouncements being made under President Lungu are not being actualized. Mr. Tayali has cited the failure to implement the policy pronouncement allowing the private sector ...

United Peaceful and Prospourers Zambia (UPPZ )President Charles Chanda has added his voice in condemning the proposal to repeal the Law Association of Zambia (LAZ) Act. Mr. Chanda thinks that there is nothing wrong with LAZ Act. Mr. Chanda told QFM news in an interview that Members of Parliament should concentrate on more important issues that can help in the ...

Government has been advised against taking a pre-conceived position in consultations on whether Zambia should withdraw from the International Criminal Court (ICC) or not. Southern African Center for the Constructive Resolution of Disputes (SACCORD) Executive Director Boniface Cheembe says what people need to know in Zambia is the importance of the ICC. Mr. Cheembe says this is what his organization ...

Government has formally begun working on a plan to regulate the sale and consumption of alcohol in Zambia. Minister of Local Government Vincent Mwale has disclosed that he has to this effect already had meetings with alcohol producers in Zambia. Mr. Mwale says it has been established that there is illegal production of alcohol in the Country whose brands do ...

The National Road Fund Agency (NRFA) has projected a monthly revenue collection of K20 million from four more newly installed toll Plazas in Katuba, Shimabala, Mumbwa and Chongwe . Road Tolling at Katuba, Shimabala, Mumbwa is expected to commence this month. NRFA Public Relations Manager Alphonsius Hamachila has disclosed that Avic International, the contractor engaged to construct the conventional Toll ...

The governing PF has been cautioned that it will turn Zambia into a banana republic if causes the repealing the current Law Association of Zambia (LAZ) Act. MMD president Nevers Mumba is advising the governing PF to be wary that the only government that will turn against LAZ in Zambia’s history will be the one that chooses to be illegal. ...

One person is reported to have been murdered today after an attempt by opposition UPND cadres to hold a rally in Lusaka’s Kanyama township was stopped by the Police. The deceased, Stephen Kalipa, aged 20 years, is believed to have been stabbed with a knife by an unknown person suspected to have been among UPND cadres. Police Spokesperson Esther Mwaata ...