By KENNEDY MUPESENI – GALILEO Resources has announced drilling results for its final eight drill holes as part of a 26 hole diamond drilling programme at the Star Zinc project in Lusaka in which the...

By CLAVER MUTINTA – BARCLAYS Bank has invested more than K25 million in Information and Communications Technology (ICT) to reach out to more customers who are financially excluded. Managing Director Mizinga Melu said the investment...

By KENNEDY MUPESENI – THE Zambia Revenue Authority (ZRA) is aggressively pursuing local Information Communication Technology (ICT) solutions to reduce its K100 million annual ICT expenditure on foreign firms. The tax man has since inked...

By REBECCA MUSHOTA – ZAMBIA’S High Commissioner to the United Kingdom (UK) Muyeba Chikonde has called on the Zambian business community in the diaspora to unite and establish a diaspora bond to raise capital for...

By KENNEDY MUPESENI  – LIQUID Telecom and China Telecom Global Limited (CTG) have partnered to step up network collaboration between Africa and Asia. CTG is a subsidiary of China Telecom Corporation Limited, one of the...

By MUSONDA MANGILASHI – and ESTHER NG’ANDUPAST Mines and Minerals Development Minister Christopher Yaluma has urged the Zambia Chamber of Mines (ZCM) to be vigilant in engaging Government on how the mining industry can be...

By JAMES KUNDA – LOCAL private sector business activity rose for the first time in April this year, as the negative impacts of the recent cholera outbreak subsided, the latest Stanbic Bank Zambia Purchasing Managers’...

By JAMES MUYANWA in Abidjan, IVORY COAST – COMMODITY producers in Africa will remain on the receiving end in terms of commodity prices for as long as the continental market continues to be undeveloped. Africa...

By JAMES MUYANWA in Abidjan, IVORY COAST – AFRICA’s experiences of the last decade call for more African investors to invest in the petroleum subsector instead of leaving it to the multinational companies from developed...

By JAMES KUNDA – DANGOTE cement Plc has reported that sales of 32.5 and 42.5-grade cement at its Zambian subsidiary in Ndola grew by five per cent last year. According to the firm’s annual report...