The Police command has moved swiftly to suspend the four traffic Police officers of Lusaka’s Matero Police station who were caught mounting an illegal roadblock and extorting money from motorists by Lusaka province Minister Bowman Lusambo. The suspension of the four officers namely Sergeant Laban Bwalya,Sergeant Charity Zuze constables Moses Chiinga and Mukeya Chibesa is with immediate effect. Inspector General ...

Political historian Bizeck Jube Phiri has noted the need to find a lasting solution to the issue of the Barotseland Agreement of 1964. Professor Phiri is urging both government and the Barotse Royal Establishment to engage each other and establish what the people on the ground really want. In an interview with QTV News, Professor Phiri notes that reverting Western ...

United Prosperous and Peaceful Zambia (UPPZ) president Charles Chanda says government should stop creating artificial by-elections, but instead use the money to develop the nation. Speaking to Q-news in an interview, Mr. Chanda says artificial by-elections are a drain on the treasury. Mr Chanda laments that instead of using the money for developmental programmes such as drilling boreholes for people ...

The Civil Society for Poverty Reduction (CSPR) has observed that the increase in domestic debt from K12.7 billion in n2017 to K13.9 billion has contributed to the reduction in liquidity in the economy. CSPR Executive Director Patrick Nshindano says the increase in domestic debt is mainly driven by arrears owed to contractors more especially in the road construction sector. Mr ...

Civil rights activist Brebner Changala has warned that Zambia risks reverting to a one party state if defections from the opposition to the ruling party continue. Mr. Changala says this is especially that it’s the country’s biggest opposition party the UPND that is suffering these defections. In an interview with QTV News, Mr. Changala suspects that the UPND is being ...

People’s Alliance for Change (PAC) president Andyford Banda has described government’s decision to impose a 30 ngwee per day tariff on internet phone calls as cheap and misdirected. Mr Banda has told Qfm news that government should state the real reason why it has decided to come up with such a tax instead of using the reason of saving jobs ...

Serie A can never be reduced to a one-man show and it simply cannot be all about Cristiano Ronaldo. Nevertheless, it is hard to understate the impact his arrival at Juventus has had on the league before a ball has even been kicked. The 33-year-old five-time Ballon d’Or winner is not only one of the two best players of the ...

Tributes are pouring in from the worlds of entertainment and politics for Aretha Franklin, the US singer known as the Queen of Soul, who has died at 76. Franklin performed at inauguration events for three US presidents and was a powerful advocate for the civil rights movement. “For more than 50 years, she stirred our souls,” Bill and Hillary Clinton ...

US defence officials have postponed a planned Veterans Day weekend military parade through the streets of Washington DC until at least 2019. The parade was originally conceived to commemorate the centenary of the end of World War 1 and to honour veterans. But a Pentagon official said it has now been delayed at least one year. Provisional figures released earlier ...