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President Edgar Lungu has assured security wings of his commitment to addressing the accommodation challenges they are facing. The Commander-IN-Chief of the Armed Forces made the assurance when he launched the construction of 2, 000 housing units for Zambia National Service (ZNS) officers at ZNS Chamba Valley which will be constructed in all the service cantonments across the country at ...

The annual inflation rate for March 2017 inflation rate has marginally decreased by 0.1 percentage points to 6.7 percent from the February rate of 6.8 percent. Central Statistical Office Director, John Kalumbi has attributed the reduction to the price changes of food items. Mr Kalumbi has explains that decline in inflation means that on average prices increased by 6.7 percent ...

State House has charged that it is by choice that the opposition is not accessing public media under President Edgar Lungu’s administration. The President’s Special Assistant for Press and Public Relations, Amos Chanda says just like the ruling party has a choice to be covered by whichever media house, the opposition too has a similar choice. Mr. Chanda states that ...

UPND President Hakainde Hichilema has unreservedly apologized to the two journalists who were violently harassed by UPND cadres at the party secretariat yesterday. Radio Phoenix reporter Silumesi Malumo and his Millennium Radio counterpart Prisca Limingu were yesterday beaten and hounded out of UPND Secretariat during a press briefing. Mr. Hichilema says he does not condone violence against journalists or any ...

Government has clarified that the K2 million allocated towards consultations on whether Zambia should leave or remain a member of the International Criminal Court (ICC) is from the 2017 national budget. Justice Minister Given Lubinda says the money is part of the allocation approved by Parliament in the contingency budget, which is money set aside to cover unexpected costs. Mr. ...

Economist Noel Nkhoma has observed that the upswing in the global economy has helped the Zambian economy stabilize. Mr. Nkhoma has also attributed the improvement in the economy to the economic recovery programme government has put in place coupled with political will. He has since advised government to stick to the economic recovery programme in order to bring stability to ...

Consumer Unity and Trust Society (CUTS) Zambia has recommended that the Food Reserve Agency should stick to buying maize for strategic reserves. Speaking during a media breakfast this morning, CUTS Research Consultant, Natasha Chilundika says this will help reduce the fiscal strain the FRA puts on the treasury. Ms. Chilundika has further recommended that government should consider using a price ...

The Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA) Zambia has strongly condemned the violent attacks on Journalists from Radio Phoenix and Millennium Radio by unruly UPND cadres during the party’s press briefing yesterday. MISA Zambia Chairperson Hellen Mwape says that it is unfortunate that the cadres descended on the journalists who were there to merely do their job of gathering information ...

Civil rights activist Brebner Changala has described the just ended sitting of Parliament as a total disaster. Mr. Changala feels the parliamentary sitting which concluded yesterday has achieved nothing. In an interview with QTV News, Mr. Changala says Zambia has serious issues which should have been discussed during the just ended sitting. Mr. Changala has cited the Public Order Act ...

A four year old boy of Lusaka’s Chungu area is admitted to the University Teaching Hospital (UTH) nursing 80% burns after being burnt in strange circumstances during prayers. University Teaching Hospital (UTH) Public Relations Officer Natalie Mashikolo has told QFM News that it’s believed an unnamed prophet had gone to pray for the boy’s family and as the boy was ...