By Immanuel Chitwa – THE US$25 million British American Tobacco (BAT) cigarette manufacturing company will start test runs of machinery at its plant located at the Lusaka South Multi-Facility Economic Zone (LS-MFEZ) next week in...

By CHILA NAMAIKO – MEMBERS of Parliament (MPs) have called on Government to recapitalise the Zambia National Savings and Credit Bank (NATSAVE) to enable more small-scale farmers in remote constituencies have access to empowerment funds....

By CHATULA KANGALI – THE Ikeleng’e district administration has called on corporate entities and individuals to consider investing in pineapple processing in the area, saying too much of the fruit is going to waste. District...

By HELEN ZULU – UNITY Finance has launched an Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (USSD) mobile application service which will enable its clients save time and effort in gaining accessing to its services. The new facility...

By JAMES MUYANWA – ZAMBIA is set for this year’s International Monetary Fund (IMF)/World Bank Annual October Meetings, which started yesterday in Washington DC. Finance Permanent Secretary Mukuli Chikuba said the annual meeting will seek...

By HELEN ZULU – ZAMBIA, Tanzania and Kenya will next month hold a financiers conference in Livingstone to raise financing for the remaining sections of the Zambia-Tanzania- Kenya (ZTK) power interconnector project. The project aims...

By HELEN ZULU – INDO Zambia Bank (IZB) is targeting to issue out over 12,000 VISA-enabled Debit Cards to the beneficiary farmers in Nyimba District to facilitate their acquisition of inputs from agro dealers through...

By CHATULA KANGALI – THE Zambian market is too small to have a metals exchange platform because of limited pool of metals in the country, the government has said. Stakeholders have been calling for the...

By JULIUS PHIRI – A LUNDAZI business executive has said the connection of Lundazi and Chama districts to the national electricity grid is a great milestone for the businesses. Evans Ngoma said yesterday that currently...

By CHATULA KANGALI – THE Zambia Farmers Union (ZNFU) has urged Government to  make operational farm blocs which are currently on brownfield stage in the country. ZNFU president Jervis Zimba said there were a number...