By MAIMBOLWA MULIKELELA – ZAMBIA’s annual inflation rate has closed the year at 16.4 per cent, missing the projected target range of between six and eight per cent as indicated in the 2021 National Budget.The...

By MAIMBOLWA MULIKELELA – ZAMBIA’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) estimates for the third quarter of this year indicates that the economy grew by 3.5 per cent. This represents a 6.5 percentage point increase from minus...

By CHATULA KANGALI –THE copper prices witnessed this year helped to cushion Zambia’s economy from the negative effects of COVID-19 pandemic and the debt default, PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) has observed, PwC chief executive officer and senior...

By MAIMBOLWA MULIKELELA – THE increased uptake of electronic channels for bill payments and money transfers has enhanced prospect of fraud being more attractive, providing an unprecedented opportunity for intending fraudsters. Read more...

By CHATULA KANGALI – THE Policy Monitoring and Research Centre (PMRC) has called for increased private sector participation in the livestock sector to unlock its potential.PMRC executive director Bernadette Zulu said a viable private sector...

By STEPHANIE KUNDA – THE Government has commissioned the former Simon Mwansa Kapwepwe International Airport in Ndola as a Zambia Airforce (ZAF) airbase with a pledge to support the force in promoting security in the...

The year 2021 has been an eventful one full of both challenges and opportunities.The challenges started in November, 2020, when Zambia became the first African country to default on its debt obligations largely due to...

By FRANCINA CHOMBA – INSPECTOR General of Police Lemmy Kajoba has appealed to the electorate in the Kabwata Constituency and two ward by-elections to exercise their democratic rights to elect their leaders on January 20,...

By KASONDE KASONDE – PUBLIC Accounts Committee (PAC) yesterday heard that the controversial K839 million fertiliser deal which the Ministry of Agriculture cut with a foreign company in 2016 came as an instruction from State...

By STEVEN ZANDE – THERE was shocking irregularities in COVID-19 fund use, with the Ministry of Health being allegedly culpable of product substitution resulting in supply of three million Chinese face masks instead of the...