By HELEN ZULU – NWK Agri-Services will this year construct an agro retail centre in Mpongwe District to take agricultural inputs and services closer to farmers on the Copperbelt. Company agriculture manager Edwin Banda said...

ANY weekly columnist will tell you that there are just some weeks when one is swamped with all sorts of ideas to base the next article on. The ideas could for some weeks be so...

THERE are essentially two things that are guaranteed in one’s life, taxes and death. While talking about taxes is something that fits and is widely used in everyday conversations, the subject of death is discussed...

TODAY, we revisit the issue of separating business from personal matter from another angle. As I always say, mixing personal matters with business stands out as a major problem that most Small and Medium Enterprises...

EVERY corporate manager creates sustainable corporate strategies whose objective is to make the company grow, survive, prosper, and in so doing, avert corporate failure. Medical and conventional wisdom holds that, just as the antidote for...

By KENNEDY MUPESENI – Mufulira Municipal Council (MMC) has revamped the defunct local abattoir at a cost of K920,000, to significantly reduce the cost of doing business for butchery dealers. The facility would be operated...

By MAIMBOLWA MULIKELELA – ZCCM Investment Holdings (ZCCM-IH) Plc recorded an operating loss of K2,179 million in 2015, compared to K871 million profits realised the previous year in 2014. This is according to financial results...

By HELEN ZULU – THE Zambia Bureau of Standards (ZABS) in collaboration with Zambia Revenue Authority (ZRA), has embarked on a single window online clearance system of imports to speed up the inspection process. ZABS...

By JUDITH NAMUTOWE in Addis Ababa – THE Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) has launched an Economic Report on Africa (ERA) which dwells on green industrialisation,  to enable sustainable and inclusive development on the continent....

By JUDITH NAMUTOWE in Addis Ababa – THE African Union (AU) has said that diversification of African economies was the main solution to resolving challenges facing most countries as a result of falling commodity prices....