By MAIMBOLWA MULIKELELA- FIRST Quantum Minerals Limited (FQM) has launched an offering of US$1,600 million senior notes to refinance the company’s existing debt securities due in 2019 and 2020. Senior notes are debt securities or...

By CHATULA KANGALI and NDUBI MVULA in Lagos, Nigeria  – THE $12 billion Dangote Oil Refinery which will be the largest in the world slated for Lagos will be in full operation in 2019 and...

By JUDITH NAMUTOWE – THE Zambia Bureau of Standards (ZABS) has seized 19 bales of used underwear worth more than K30, 000 in Lusaka. This is in its continued effort to promote the health and...

By KENNEDY MUPESENI – THE stability in the copper prices has brightened the country’s mining sector outlook with world’s mining conglomerates such as Rio Tinto and Anglo American intensifying mineral explorations. Mines and Mineral Development...

By MAIMBOLWA MULIKELELA and CAROLYN MUTEMWA – REGULATORS, other Government agencies and law enforcement authorities should be proactive and ensure they uphold consumers’ rights, the government has said. In this digital era the consumers’ interests...

By STUART LISULO in Pretoria, SOUTH AFRICA – DAIMLER Trucks and Buses, a division of Mercedes-Benz South Africa, says it remains optimistic Zambia’s economy will rebound in view of the positive indicators currently obtaining on...

By KENNEDY MUPESENI – THE single digit inflation  the country has attained  will lead to increased liquidity in the banking sector, Investrust Bank Zambia Plc chief operating officer Isaiah Chindumba  has said. Mr Chindumba said...

By CHATULA KANGALI AND NDUBI MVULA in LAGOS, NIGERIA – DANGOTE Cement Plc has embarked on a sensitisation campaign on the proper utilisation of cement in the construction industry. This follows some concerns from the...

By MAIMBOLWA MULIKELELA – ZAMBIA says that the Chinese investments in infrastructure projects have played a key role in local economic development. Commerce, Trade and Industry Minister Margaret Mwanakatwe said the Government recognised China as...

By KENNEDY MUPESENI – ZAMBIA’s hosting of the Under 20 African Cup of Nation (AFCON) tournament has had no immediate bearing on the country’s exchange rate, financial analyst Maambo Hamaundu has observed. Mr Hamaundu said...