International Labor Organization (ILO) has stressed the need for higher learning institutions in Zambia to integrate entrepreneurship and skills development in all the courses that are offered to students. ILO Country Director for Malawi, Mozambique and Zambia George Okutho tells Q News that it is sad to see graduates roaming the streets for years and some turning into beggars and ...

Community Action Against Corruption [CAAC] has requested that the investigative wings should take keen interest in the matter in which Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Relations Stanley Kakubo allegedly engaged in corrupt practices. CAAC Chief Executive Officer Brighton Tembo tells Q News that this will help the nation to know the truth about the allegation as it will enable the ...

Nshamba Muzungu Lusaka Water Supply and Sanitation Company Public Relations Officer Nshamba Muzungu has urged the National Water Supply and Sanitation Council [NWASCO] to consider revising the water tariffs owing to the high cost of doing business. Mr. Muzungu says the business environment hampered by different macroeconomic indicators such as inflation rate, the exchange rate, and cost of electricity, fuel ...

Libya’s National Oil Corporation says that a wave of protests affecting the energy sector are likely to get worse. At least four separate groups have stopped production at oil fields and energy facilities across the country. The protesters want Libya’s Tripoli-based Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibah to hand power to a rival government led by Fathi Bashagha which was formed ...

Mambo Hamaundu Government has warned that it will not tolerate political interference in the disbursement of the Constituency Development Fund [CDF]. And Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development Permanent Secretary Maambo Hamaundu has warned against embezzlement of the Constituency Development Fund by committee members tasked to handle the funds. Speaking in a telephone interview with Q News, Mr. Hamaundu ...

Energy expert, Johnstone Chikwanda has advised government to appoint a technical implementation task force to actualize the bilateral agreement which government went to follow up in Angola. Mr. Chikwanda who is also energy forum of Zambia chairperson notes that the issue of negotiating a fuel procurement transaction directly with a leading oil producing country has been pending for over 20 ...