Republican Vice President Mrs Inonge Wina has announced that she has no intentions of seeking election to the office of the presidency in Zambia. Featuring on recorded BBC Focus on Africa recorded television program in London this morning, Mrs. Wina charged that she has no presidential ambitions. Vice President Wina categorically told the TV presenter […]
Politicians in the country have been advised not only to turn to the Church during times of crisis, but engage the church constantly in national matters. Sovereignty Impact Ministries General Overseer Reverend Steven Mwalesa tells Q-News that the tendency where the Church is only consulted when there is a crisis should come to an end. […]
Chief Madzimawe of the Ngoni speaking people in Chipata District of Eastern province has differed with the provincial administration over the removal of Billboards carrying Open Defecation Free (ODF) messages. Last week Eastern province deputy permanent secretary Patrick Mwanawasa instructed that all UNICEF billboards carrying open defecation free messages be pulled down claiming they are […]
Police in Choma have arrested two suspects in connection with the murder of a 59 year-old white farmer, Clive Wixely who was shot dead and robbed of K149, 000 last month in Choma District. Southern Province Police Commissioner, Bonny Kapeso has identified those arrested as Winford Hachibone, 40, of Kakoyo village in Chief Macha’s chiefdom […]
Barbara Bush, the former US first lady and literacy campaigner, has died at the age of 92. She was the matriarchal figure of a political dynasty that included two presidents – her husband George HW Bush and son George W Bush. Mrs Bush, who was first lady from 1989 to 1993, had been in failing […]
Lusaka Deputy Mayor Chilando Chitangala has defended the demolition exercise conducted by the council at Kamwala market in which traders lost their merchandise. Ms Chitangala says there was nothing unusual about the demolition exercise at Kamwala market despite the council not giving the affected traders 48-hours demolition notice. She says the council will continue with […]
Patriotic Front Secretary General Davies Mwila has had to remind people questioning his credentials of the ruling party hierarchy that places him third in terms of ranking. Mwila was responding to people questioning his having summoned acting Lusaka Mayor Chilando Chitangala over the demolition over structures for traders in Lusaka’s Kamwala area. The PF Chief […]
Dear Editor, I am now beginning to believe what people have said about HH. He is a very destructive person who wants his way regardless of the situation. If he can fence off his own people, while in opposition where he needs support most,what would be the fate of the rest of the people who […]
MY silence over what has transpired in the MMD since I was legitimately elected as president through a convention must never be mistaken for weakness, MMD president Felix Mutati has warned. Mr Mutati has maintained that he will not abandon the MMD because he was given the mandate as a leader by the people who […]
Kenyan boxer Brian Agina has gone missing at the end of the Commonwealth Games in Australia. Kenya’s High Commissioner to Australia Isaiah Kabira is quoted in the Kenyan Daily Nation newspaper as saying they were hoping the boxer would be found before they “press the panic button”. The newspaper adds that officials reported his disappearance […]