Zesco United battle to end their two-match losing streak when they host an improving Nchanga Rangers at Levy Mwanawasa Stadium in Ndola on Wednesday. The defending Super Division champions have lost their last two games and in the process dropped out of the top two since Nkwazi ended their unbeaten league run this season on June 3. Wednesday’s rescheduled Week ...

The Zambia Association of Manufacturers (ZAM) has observed that the country is spending more than it should on infrastructure projects because of the contracts are awarded to Chinese companies. ZAM President Bright Chunga explains that when the projects are given to Chinese companies, it means most of the materials are bought from China as the Chinese contractors insist on importing ...

Opposition Rainbow party president Wynter Kabimba has charged that the ruling Patriotic Front cannot fight corruption because the party is comprised of alleged corrupt elements. Mr. Kabimba has told QFM News that the PF has contributed to the alleged high levels of corruption in government. Mr. Kabimba says there is need for the country to have clean and honest people ...

The Evangelical Fellowship of Zambia (EFZ) has admonished politicians that have continued to peddle tribal politics. EFZ Executive Director Pukuta Mwanza laments that this is retrogressive to efforts being made in fighting the vice. Reverend Mwanza notes that this especially that people look to politicians to help eliminate negative vices such as tribalism. He tells QFM News that the Church ...

Paris will bid to host the Olympic Games in 2024, 100 years after the French capital last staged the event. The city has applied unsuccessfully on three previous occasions – losing out to London in 2012 after failed attempts for the 2008 and 1992 Games. “We believe that this bid and our goal to host the 2024 Games will excite, ...

James Horner, the Hollywood composer who wrote the Oscar-winning score for Titanic, has died in a California plane crash aged 61. A trained pilot, he is reported to have been alone aboard a small private plane which crashed north of Santa Barbara on Monday morning. The musician worked on three James Cameron films, as well as A Beautiful Mind, Braveheart, ...

Pakistan’s prime minister has called for emergency measures as the death toll from a heatwave in southern Sindh province reached nearly 700. The National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) said it had received orders from Nawaz Sharif to take immediate action. The army is also being deployed to help set up heat stroke centres, with temperatures reaching 45C (113F). Officials have ...

The Patriotic Front in Kitwe district has appealed to all the opposition Members of Parliament to support the constitution amendment bill when once table in Parliament. PF Kitwe District Information and Publicity Secretary Christopher Kang’ombe says this is considering the fact that non-contentious issues need to be included immediately in the republican constitution without any further delay. Mr. Kang’ombe says ...

Quick intervention by Police and the District Commissioner in Mbala last week saved a 15 year old Grade 8 girl of Kaseshya village in Chief Zombe’s area from being married off. Both Police and Acting District Commissioner, Felix Mungaila have confirmed the development to ZANIS. Mr. Mungaila said police acted on a tip off from a concerned member of the ...

Patriotic Front Media and Publicity Committee Vice Chairperson Sunday Chanda says UPND President Hakainde Hichilema is not being sincere in his evaluation of President Edgar Lungu’s six months in office. Mr. Chanda says while Mr. Hichilema claims things are becoming worse under the PF regime and that the six months of President Lungu has been a disaster, he must remember ...