By DELPHINE ZULU – FINANCE Bank Zambia (FBZ) has lost a US$3 million loan facility it gave to the defunct Zambian Airways on grounds that it flouted banking regulations. Finance Bank sued the Development Bank...

By PERPETUAL SICHIKWENKWE – PRESIDENT Edgar Lungu has said poverty should not be a limiting factor to attaining education as the Government strives to ensure children explore and achieve their dreams. Meanwhile, First Lady Esther...

By DELPHINE ZULU – CHIEF Justice Irene Mambilima has said she is optimistic that the re-launch of mediation will enhance the reduction on the backlog of cases in the High and Industrial Relations courts because...

By JULIUS PHIRI – POLICE in Chipata have arrested three people in connection with a spate of robberies which have rocked the border town lately. Two of those arrested are ex-convicts. Eastern Province Commissioner of...

By JAMES KUNDA – NDOLA Energy will this month expand its 50 Mega Watts (MW) power plant as the country finds further means to mitigate load-shedding. Last month, Zambia and the Democratic Republic of Congo...

By MOFFAT CHAZINGWA – A MAN of Chambishi on the Copperbelt has been hacked to death by unknown assailants. Copperbelt Commissioner of Police Joyce Kasosa confirmed the murder, which happened at the weekend. Ms Kasosa...

By SYLVESTER MWALE – THE Zambia Environment Management Agency (ZEMA) has said Konkola Copper Mines (KCM) has not returned the highly arsenic copper concentrates which has been rejected for processing in Zambia. ZEMA acting director...

By SYLVESTER  MWALE – THE Zambia Revenue Authority (ZRA) and the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) have agreed to develop a mineral value chain monitoring framework to enhance revenue collection from the...

By MILDRED KATONGO – THE Government will deploy labour officers to Zambezi Portland Cement as it seeks to halt job cuts at the Ndola-based cement. Forty-seven workers have been laid off while a further 63...

By MOFFAT CHAZINGWA and  MUNAMBEZA MUWANEI – FOTRY-SEVEN employees at Zambezi Portland in Ndola have been laid off while a further 63 are earmarked for retrenchment. The redundancies are due to reduction in business volume...