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The opposition National Restoration Party (NAREP) says the solutions to the challenges that the country is currently facing lies in empowering young people through education. NAREP President Elias Chipimo during the launch of the NAREP scholarship to India program says education is the most important intervention in one’s life and thus the need for the country to endeavor to educate ...

The ruling PF has challenged its members interested to aspire for the party’s 2021 presidential candidacy to brace themselves for a tough battle. PF Deputy Spokesperson Frank Bwalya says bidding for the 2021 presidential candidacy in his party will be a question of competing for a place. Mr. Bwalya says anyone interested in this candidacy should however keep in mind ...

Police in Lusaka have arrested popular Traditional Healer Dr Kalonga Kanono for allegedly shooting his sister Josephine Chilufya aged 53. Dr Kalonga Kanono aged 39 and whose full names are Chilufya Chileya of Kanyama Site and Service yesterday at about 23:00hrs shot his sister of Chibolya compound using a pistol. Police Spokesperson Esther Katongo has disclosed this development to QFM ...

The Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) says it received a total of 1, 349 reports of suspected corruption last year. This show a decrease of 296 reports from 1, 645 received in 2015 when compared to 2016. ACC Public Relations Manager Timothy Moono says out of the reports received in 2016, a total of 884 were non corruption related cases while ...

Zambia is this year scheduled to host a Joint Permanent Commission (JPC) of Co-operation with the government of Ethiopia in a bid to strengthen bilateral relations between the two countries. Foreign Affairs Minister Harry Kalaba says the JPC which is scheduled to take place in Lusaka on 28th March will improve trade and economic activities between people of the two countries. Mr ...

UPND Member Dante Saunders says Zambia’s constitution need to be perfected. Mr. Saunders says this is because the current constitution gives the president too much power and controls all the institutions of government. He says this makes it difficult for the nation to progress and fight corruption. He says from the start, he warned that the amended constitution was full ...

Former Church of God General Overseer Bishop John Mambo has maintained that the Church in Zambia should seek the forgiveness of God because the church is compromised. Bishop Mambo says the church has put priority on material things and forgetting their role of preaching the Kingdom of God. He says politics has penetrated the church to an extent that they ...

Minister of Tourism and Arts Charles Banda is tomorrow expected in Madrid, Spain for various high-level meetings with the UNWTO Secretariat and the Spanish government. The Minister will be accompanied by the Permanent Secretary Stephen Mwansa, the Director of Tourism in charge of the Department of Tourism Reuben Zulu, Zambia Tourism Agency Chief Executive Officer Felix Chaila, Hotel and Tourism ...

Electoral Expert MacDonald Chipenzi has observed that the delay to dispose of 2016 election petitions by the Constitutional Court is an injustice to the petitioners. Mr. Chipenzi wonders why Members of Parliament whose seats were nullified are still serving in various government oppositions. He has since called for efficiency and better way of handling election petitions. Mr. Chipenzi says there ...

People’s Alliance for Change (PAC) President Andyford Banda has challenged President Edgar Lungu why the people of Zambia should return him in office in 2021. Mr. Banda says the debate should not be on centered on whether the Head of State qualifies to stand in 2021 or not but that should he be given another third chance to govern the ...