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The University Zambia Lecturers and researcher union (UNZALARU) has reiterated its call for the overhaul of the university. UNZALARU general secretary, kelvin Mambwe states that the challenges at Zambia’s top university are not due to lack of finance, but due to mismanagement of the institution. Dr. Mambwe says the current university management has not done much in uplifting the name ...

Golden party of Zambia (GPZ) has urged the new dawn administration to urgently depoliticize the constituency development fund (CDF) and ensure it serves all the people of Zambia. GPZ president Jackson Silavwe tells q-news that media reports coming from Solwezi district and other parts of the country that the bursary scheme under cdf is favoring upnd officials and supporters are ...

Late fourth republican president rupiah Banda’s son Andrew has dispelled assertions that the government did not bother to evacuate the late president outside the country for medical treatment. Mr. Banda says the late president on his own accord requested to be brought back home from the hospital in Dubai. He has since appealed to members of the general public not ...

Typhoid has broken out in Mbala district of Northern Province with 250 cases recorded so far. Announcing the development during a media briefing, health minister Sylvia Masebo says the first case was recorded in a one year old boy who presented with symptoms of chills, diarrhea, fever prompting health personnel to conduct further investigations. Ms Masebo says a total of ...

Department for national parks and wildlife officers in Kalabo district in western province are searching for the body of a 29-year old woman who was snatched by a crocodile yesterday during a fishing venture. National parks and wildlife operations ranger safely Mulala confirmed the development in an interview with zanis and identified the victim as Nosiku Muyabai of Kangongo village ...

Zesco limited says it is shifting from using copper electricity service cables to aluminum cables due to increased acts of vandalism and theft on its infrastructure. Speaking during an anti-vandalism community sensitization meeting in Mufulira yesterday, Zesco head of security, Hamulundo Kapika said the delay in reconnecting clients whose service cables have been stolen is because the company wants to ...

The Public Service Management Division (PSMD) has urged trade unions across the country to emulate the civil servants and allied workers union of Zambia by coming up with initiatives that seek to empower their members with access to decent housing. PSMD director, Felix Mushabati has noted that housing is a necessity not only at the time of retirement, but also ...

Finance and national planning minister Situmbeko Musokotwane says it’s anticipated that the official creditor committee consisting of Zambia’s bilateral creditors will be formed within the next few weeks paving the way for the commencement of the debt restructuring discussions. in a ministerial statement to parliament on international monetary fund (IMF) discussions and progress on debt restructuring, Dr Musokotwane says the ...

The Ministry of health has advertised the recruitment of 11,276 health workers, with the period for receiving applications being seven days from today. And four directors in the human resource department at the ministry of health have been sent on forced leave in connection with irregularities in the number of health workers in health facilities across the country and the ...

Permanent secretary in the ministry of local government and rural development mambo Hamaundu has appealed to Zambians to take responsibility if they want to stay in a clean environment. Mr. Hamaundu tells Qtv news in an interview that there is a lot of litter that is being dumped especially in the c-b-d. He says in as much as the council ...