By KENNEDY MUPESENI – ZAMBIA has benefited a total of $1.5 billion development funds from the African Development Bank (AfDB) in the last 50 years. Among the projects funded by the bank includes the Tazama...

By JAMES KUNDA – THE migration of MTN Zambia’s mobile money platform was successful and normal service has been restored. The migration start started on Friday October 17, 2014 at midnight and end on Sunday...

By JAMES KUNDA – ZAMBIAN Breweries (ZB) has recorded a 16 per cent drop in lager volumes impacted by excise-related price increases effected at the beginning of this year. ZB owner, SABMiller plc says the...

By JAMES KUNDA – THE Zambia Bureau of Standards (ZABS) has opened new offices in the provincial capitals of Southern, Eastern and Northern Provinces. The move is aimed at enhancing and localising market surveillances, routine...

By KENNEDY MUPESENI – PICK n Pay Zambia’s total investment is expected to reach more than U$50 million and create a total of 2,000 jobs by the end of 2015. Pick n Pay general manager...

By HELEN ZULU – THE National Pension Scheme Authority (NAPSA) has introduced Pension Life Certificates which will see all those on the current NAPSA Pension Payroll being required to submit annually to NAPSA. This was...

By JUDITH NAMUTOWE – THE Zambia Consumer Association (ZACA) has said the K600 million allocated to Zesco for power generation programmes will further stimulate economic growth in the country. ZACA executive secretary Samuel Simutunda was...

By HELEN ZULU – GOVERNMENT has committed about US$11.5 million to the management of community owned wildlife resource project in Bangweulu in Luapula Province. Tourism and Arts minister Jean Kapata said government with the assistance...

By HELEN ZULU – HARVESTPLUS is targeting to provide orange maize for 100,000 farmers in the country by 2015. HarvestPlus country manager for Zambia Eliab Simpungwe said the company had so far provided orange maize...

By JAMES KUNDA? – A JOINT technical committee has been set up to clampdown on the sale?of substandard mobile phones in the country. The committee comprising the Zambia Bureau of Standards (ZABS), the?Zambia Information Communication...