Government says it is waiting for the maize moisture content to come down to the right percentage before announcing this year’s maize floor price. Agriculture and Livestock Deputy Minister Greyford Monde has told Qfm News that government is likely to announce the maize floor price before the end of July. He has since appealed to farmers throughout the country to ...

The opposition All People’s Congress (APC) says huge deficits incurred in the six months of Zambia’s 2015 financial year boils down to lack of fiscal discipline under the Patriotic Front (PF) government. APC president Nason Msoni says his party has taken note for a long time that the PF government has proved to be lacking fiscal discipline emanating from lack ...

As many celebrate their birthdays this June, 2015, especially today 12, being the remembrance day of Nigeria’s most freest election in 1993 which saw late Moshood Abiola emerging as the winner, many do not recall that today is also the birthday of one of Nigeria’s most renowned prophet, Temitope Joshua. The General overseer of the Synagogue Church of All Nation, ...

Brazilian star Neymar has been provisionally suspended for one match and could face a harsher final punishment, officials said on Thursday after the striker received a red card during a fracas in Brazil’s Copa America loss to Colombia. South American federation CONMEBOL’s disciplinary committee “provisionally suspended Neymar for one game after his behavior in the aftermath of Brazil’s 1-0 defeat ...

Lionel Messi will play his 100th match for Argentina on Saturday against Jamaica in the Copa America but it will be a century marked by too many tears and no titles. “I’m very happy to reach this record. Hopefully I can celebrate another victory and once and for all lift a cup,” the Barcelona striker said in an interview published ...

The Zambia Centre for Interparty Dialogue (ZCID) has assured all member political parties that there is nothing to worry about the proposed political parties Act. ZCID Executive Director Horrance Chilando explains that the Act is based on the request made by political parties themselves to government and is also covered under Artuicle 87(4)(a) of the Draft Constitution. Mr Chilando says ...

The Chewa Heritage Foundation has expressed shock that Government has apologized to Paramount Chief Mpezeni of the Ngoni for doing the correct thing by cancelling a meeting he was supposed to address in Chipangali. Foundation national Chairman James Chirwa says government did a commendable thing by cancelling the meeting in Chipangali. Mr Chirwa says Chipangali, the area where the aborted ...

Refugees living in Zambia have appealed to government to consider removing the burden of investor permits from bonafide refugees because they are not investors. Refugee Community in Zambia Chairman General Emile Hatungimana says a greater majority of the refugees in Zambia are self employed and have created jobs and are more than eager to create more if allowed to do ...

The Jesuit Centre for Theological Reflection (JCTR) has urged Parliament to guarantee the country from sovereign insolvency by not heeding to the dictates of the Executive on further debt contraction. The JCTR says the country will pay a high price in terms of further social and economic polarization which include diminished investor confidence and higher future taxes, if Parliament approves ...

First round leaderboard -5 H Stenson (Swe), D Johnson (US); -4 P Reed (US); -3 M Kuchar (US), B Martin (US) Selected others: -2 M Warren (Sco), J Day (Aus); -1 P Mickelson (US), MA Jimenez (Spa), C Montgomerie (Sco); Level S Garcia (Spa); +2 R McIlroy (NI), J Rose (Eng), P Casey (Eng), I Poulter (Eng); +3 L Donald ...