Ministry of Youth, Sport and Arts Permanent Secretary, Kangwa Chileshe has dismissed claims by some musicians who performed at the just ended Youth Indaba that they have not paid their monies. Mr. Kangwa has told QTV news that government pays after services have been provided and that the ministry is within the stipulated 30-day threshold. He says has since engaged ...

Energy Expert Boniface Zulu says the decision by the Government to resort to the importation of finished petroleum products through the TAZAMA pipeline is a step in the right direction, but will not be sustainable in the long run because of the anticipated high demand for the commodity. Recently, Energy Minister Peter Kapala announced that government has resolved to be ...

Opposition Green Party president, Peter Sinkamba has urged the UPND administration to desist from vindictiveness and playing to the gallery in the fight against corruption.  In a statement obtained by Q-news, Mr Sinkamba says there is need for the UPND administration to be mindful, so that damages are minimized in the event that the State loses the cases. Mr Sinkamba ...

Stakeholders have disapproved government’s resolve to subject the Access to Information (ATI) Bill to further scrutiny following a stakeholder consultative and validation meeting that was held last month. The Media Institute for Southern Africa (MISA) Zambia says in as much as it values consultative processes, it is of the view that the ATI Bill has already undergone enough scrutiny over ...

The Ministry of Home Affairs and Internal Security through the department of National Registration, Passport and Citizenship in Muchinga province has the launched the Integrated national Registration Information system (INRIS). Muchinga Province Minister, Henry Sikazwe who graced the launch said implementation of the integrated national registration system is timely. Mr Sikazwe said the current manual based system lack mechanisms to ...

All People’s Congress president Nason Msoni has cried foul that some UPND Alliance partners are being sidelined by the ruling UPND. Mr Msoni, whose party is a member of the UPND Alliance, says  it is obvious that they have been living a lie in the Alliance for far too long as Seven months in government is long enough to demonstrate ...

Minister of Mines and Minerals Development, Paul Kabuswe says government has discovered a number of anomalies that had characterized the Zambian mining cadastre system following an audit.  Mr. Kabuswe says the development comes after the Process Audit that was commissioned to deal with the concerns that were raised by the public about the cadastre department, particularly the issuance of mining ...

Government says the country’s progress so far, is insufficient to realize the aspirations contained in the vision 2030 of becoming a prosperous middle-income nation.   Speaking at the National Development Coordinating Committee meeting on the validation of the eighth national development plan in Lusaka today, Acting Secretary to the Cabinet Patrick Kangwa says strides have been made towards achieving the socio-economic ...

A mental health advocate Susan Chapala has attributed the rise in teenage mental health cases, which are now resulting in children committing suicide to lack of an enabling environment for children to open up to their parents and guardians on issues affecting them. Ms. Chapala says young people are finding it difficult to open up on certain issues because of ...

Ministry of information and media director and spokesperson Thabo Kawana has charged that the current opposition political parties in the country are petty and lack ability to offer proper checks and balances to government. Mr. Kawana feels that the new dawn government deserves better from the opposition in terms of them offering proper and meaning checks and balances. He has ...