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The Drug Enforcement Commission (DEC) has through its Anti-Money Laundering Investigations Unit (AMLIU) arrested three business persons for attempting to obtain credit by false pretences. Katongo Chiteba Mulenga, 28, a Business Woman of 218/16 Kaunda Square Stage 2 in Lusaka has been arrested for theft, forgery, uttering of false documents, impersonation, and obtaining credit by false pretences contrary to the ...

State House says it is too early for anyone to question whether or not government’s promise to create 100, 000 jobs this year will be attainable. The President’s Special Assistant for Press and Public Relations Amos Chanda has wondered why this promise by government can questioned a month into the 2017 financial year. Mr. Chanda has told Qfm News in ...

The Zambian government has been advised to consider pushing for a ban on left hand driven vehicles in the Southern Africa region. Former Transport Minister William Harrington is urging government to do so in view of the number of traffic accidents the Country is recording as a result of having such vehicles. Mr. Harrington says he has personally observed that ...

Opposition Alliance for Democracy and Development (ADD) has charged that Zambia will never have a proper democracy if its media remains compromised. ADD president Charles Milupi says his party does not also think meaningful development in the Country can take place with a compromised media. Mr. Milupi notes that the public media in the Country is one such media the ...

The ruling Patriotic Front is against subjecting the review of the amended Republican Constitution to public opinion. PF Deputy Spokesperson Frank Bwalya says taking back to the people the process of cleaning up the Constitution will be costly. Mr. Bwalya states that the ruling PF believes that the review of the country’s supreme law should be left to Parliament alone. ...

Government has clarified that the Health Social Insurance Scheme it plans to introduce this year will include private health institutions. Health Minister Chilufya Chitalu says all health institutions in the country be it public or private will be registered under this scheme. Dr. Chilufya says people will only have to make a small monetary contribution towards the scheme. In an ...

Presence of God Ministries overseer Apostle Christopher Kunda has attributed the increase in gender based violence (GBV) cases resulting in murder cases to the absence of the word of God in relationships, marriages and homes. Apostle Kunda says many people are getting into marriages and relationships without God, resulting in such relationships not having peace. He says people should allow ...

Government has drawn up a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) that will facilitate the production of power from waste by Chinese firms in Lusaka. Lusaka Province Minister Japhen Mwakalombe has disclosed the draft MoU has since been submitted to the office of the Attorney General for further scrutiny. Mr. Mwakalombe has told Qfm News that once the MoU is signed, the ...

The Zambia Information and Communications Technology (ZICTA) is in the process of revising pieces of legislation in the ICTs sector to incorporate provisions that address lacunas within the ICT Act of 2009 and the Electronic and Communication Transaction Act of 2009. ZICTA public relations officer Hanford Chaaba says the authority has observed that people have taken advantage of ICTs to ...

Opposition Forum for Democracy and Development (FDD) has dismissed as unfounded the excuse the PF government is using to delay the holding of a fresh referendum on the Bill of Rights. FDD Spokesperson Antonio Mwanza says President Edger Lungu should not use lack of funds as the basis for delaying the referendum. Mr. Mwanza says the FDD does not believe ...