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The Electoral Commission of Zambia (ECZ) has called upon the media fraternity to play a critical role and create an enabling platform for participating candidates and political parties in the upcoming by-elections slated for 20th January, 2022. ECZ director electoral operations Royd katongo who is also the acting chief electoral officer says this comes in the wake of the suspension ...

Two traditional leaders have stressed the need for farmers to seriously embrace crop diversification during this farming season. They have also urged farmers in their chiefdoms and across the country to seriously consider planting trees during this year’s planting season in an effort to address climate change and deforestation. Chief Chanje of the Chewa people in Chipata District is encouraging ...

Energy Regulation Board (ERB) Acting Director General Fred Hang’andu says the board is currently examining the liquefied petroleum gas plant in Lusaka’s Shantumbu area which is using rubber and plastic to make clean energy gas. According to central African Renewable Energy Corporation Limited Director Mulenga Mulenga, the mini-plant is able to produce 700 liters of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) which ...

An agriculture expert has urged government to urgently pay farmers who supplied maize to the food reserve agency (FRA) and not wait for 3rd January, 2022 as announced by Agriculture Minister Mtolo Phiri recently. Speaking in a telephone interview with q-news, Dr. Phiri notes that farmers who sold their grain to FRA during the 2020/2021 marketing season were supposed to ...

Government says it wants a win-win situation in the mining sector to grow the country’s economy. Mines Minister, Paul Kabuswe, says the government’s desire is to see investors happy while local communities and government benefit from the mining proceeds. ZANIS reports that Mr Kabuswe was speaking when he held a meeting with the management at SUN-HE Manufacturing Limited, a mining ...

A Lusaka based car dealer company Shah motors says COVID19 pandemic has impacted negatively on the wheels of the economy particularly on those in the informal sector such as car business, and has encouraged people to take the COVID19 vaccination seriously so as to avert the roaming fourth wave of the pandemic which may further deter the economic recovery plan ...

UPND deputy national youth spokesperson Phinias Pumulo says the arrest of the former minister of defence Davis Chama and his co-accused is not politically motivated as the opposition PF is claiming. Mr. Pumulo says those suggesting that the arrests of PF members who are found wanting by the law is political are merely seeking sympathy from the Zambian people. He ...

Social scientist Innocent Kolala has stressed the need for Cabinet Ministers who have dissolved boards under their ministries to quickly appoint new boards. Mr. Kolala tells Q-news the long absence of a board in an institution might lead management doing things without direction as it becomes difficult to implement certain policies and programs without the board. He notes with concern ...

Labor and Social Security Minister, Brenda Tambatamba has  with immediate effect dissolved the boards of the national pension scheme authority(NAPSA), National Health And Insurance Management Authority (NHIMA)  and the workers compensation fund control board. In press releases made available to q news Mrs. Tambatamba said she has dissolved the NAPSA board in pursuant to section 3 of the national pension ...

Chama North Member of Parliament Yotam Mtayachalo has noted the need to depoliticize Zesco to allow the company to purely run as a business entity. And the law maker has urged the power utility firm to implement radical measures in order to address some of the financial challenges they are currently facing. Mr. Mtayachalo has rubbished assertions by the dawn ...