Economist Esther Banda has urged government not to listen to negative voices that are asserting that the Zambian youths are not ready to form cooperatives for empowerment purposes. Ms. Banda says the high youth unemployment levels in the country have taught young people to be innovative and they have shown the zeal to get empowered through the formation of cooperatives ...

Child rights advocate Masuzyo Simfukwe has called for harmonization of marriage laws to curb child marriages in the country. Ms. Simfukwe notes that there are a number of loopholes in the existing laws as the marriage act itself is not very clear as it speaks of any marriage be it of a widow or widower or anyone who is 21 ...

Senior chief Kaputa of Kaputa district in northern province has described the late 4th president rupiah Banda as someone who related with anyone in society regardless of their status. Speaking in a telephone interview with q news chief Kaputa notes that he will remember Mr. Banda for the maturity he portrayed in the way he interacted with anyone he came ...

United Prosperous and Peaceful Zambia UPPZ president Charles Chanda has commended president Hakainde Hichilema for demonstrating commitment to unite the country. Mr. Chanda has told QTV news that he is happy to see how the president interacted with his predecessor president Edgar Lungu during fourth president rupiah Banda’s funeral despite the ill-treatment he suffered while in opposition. He says the ...

Political leaders from different political parties today joined thousands of mourners in paying their last respects to fourth republican president rupiah Banda during a funeral church service at the cathedral of the holy cross in a rare demonstration of unity. leadership movement, president dr. Richard Silumbe says the country has a lost a statesman who united the nation during the ...

Former fourth republican president Rupiah Bwezani Banda has been put to rest at the presidential burial site in Lusaka following seven days of national mourning. Invited Zambians from all walks of life trouped to the embassy park to witness the restricted burial ceremony which was preceded by a church service at the cathedral of the holy cross. President Hakainde Hichilema ...

The Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA) Zambia has learnt with shock and sadness the death of veteran journalist Swithin Hangala who was proprietor and managing director of Zambezi fm in Livingstone. in a statement, MISA Zambia chairperson reverend Dr Barnabas Simatende says MISA is saddened that his demise comes at a time when the media industry in Zambia needs ...

The media network on child rights and development (MNCRD) has welcomed president Hakainde Hichilema’s recent warning that parents who consent to child marriage face prosecution together with those who marry underage children. MNCRD executive director Henry Kabwe has told QTV news that the zambia police service should take note of the statement by the president in his state of the ...

The cotton board of Zambia has entered into a partnership with the African chamber of trade and commerce (ACC) through the international forum for transformation of African cotton, textiles & accessories (FICOTA) project aimed at boosting the cotton sector in Zambia. board chief executive officer, Sunduzwayo Banda has told q-news in a statement that the partnership was entered into in ...

Opposition patriotic front (PF) media director Antonio Mwanza has called on presidential spokesperson Anthony Bwalya to desist from engaging in partisan politics by virtue of him being a civil servant on government payroll. Mr. Mwanza says it is not the job of the presidential spokesperson to be promoting propaganda and reacting to everything and everyone. In a statement availed to ...