Finance Minister Felix Mutati has unveiled a K64.5 billion 2017 national budget representing 27.7 percent of GDP. Presenting the proposed budget in Parliament today, Mr Mutati says K42.94 billion will be financed through domestic revenues,K2.23 billion through grants from cooperating partners and K19.33 billion through debt financing from domestic and external sources. He has proposed to allocate a total of ...

The Economics Association of Zambia (EAZ) says it expects 2017 national budget to be presented in Parliament today to speak to country’s agenda of economic recovery. EAZ president Chrispin Mphuka says his association wants to see measures in the national budget that will return the country to economic to stability. Dr. Mphuka has told QFM in an interview that this ...

Billy Bob Thornton is opening up about his three-year marriage to Angelina Jolie as the 41-year-old actress is in the midst of a divorce from Brad Pitt. The 61-year-old actor married Jolie, who is 20 years his junior, in 2000 after the two met on set of the 1999 movie, “Pushing Tin.” They separated in June 2002 and divorced the ...

Protests have been held for a second night in several US cities after the election of Donald Trump as president – but with smaller crowds. They were mainly young people saying a Trump presidency would create deep divisions along racial and gender lines. However police in Portland said they were dealing with vandalism and aggressive behaviour. In response, Mr Trump ...

Senegal coach, Aliou Cisse, has described his side’s 2018 Fifa World Cup qualifier Group D Day Two clash away to South Africa a “prestigious match” in African football. The former Teranga Lions captain told the media that the two teams should help give a good image of African football when they face off in Polokwane, about 300 km from Johannesburg ...

Influential singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen best known for his song “hallelujah” has died at the age of 82, a statement released on his Facebook page said Thursday. “It is with profound sorrow we report that legendary poet, songwriter and artist, Leonard Cohen has passed away,” the statement read. “We have lost one of music’s most revered and prolific visionaries.” According to ...

The Indomitable Lions of Cameroon will want to get back to winning ways when they host Zambia in their 2018 Fifa World Cup Qualifier on Saturday afternoon at Limbé Omnisport Stadium. Kick-off is at 5pm. Hosting a bruised Chipolopolo will not be an easy assignment for Hugo Broos’s side, but they will now bank on their home crowd to get ...

The opposition United Party for National Development says it sympathizes with the Zambian people over difficulties they are facing. UPND Secretary General Steven Katuka says the high cost of living in the country simply shows that the Patriotic Front has no capacity to govern. He says Zambians have realized that they made a wrong choice by retaining the Patriotic Front ...

Presidential Affairs Minister Freedom Sikazwe says it’s unfair to ask President Edgar Lungu to disclose the reasons for dismissing Chishimba Kambwili as Information Minister. Mr. Sikazwe says this is considering that it is the President’s prerogative to hire and fire. In an interview with QTV, Mr. Sikazwe says those challenging President Lungu  should to make public his reasons for dismissing ...