By KENNEDY MUPESENI – THE Government should remove taxes on mobile devices like smartphones and tablets in 2016 to increase the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) penetration rate in the country. A stakeholder, Mutale Mubanga...

By CHARITY MOONGA – THE United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and the Swedish-based development cooperation organisation ‘We Effect’, have agreed to work together with to strengthen small-scale forest and farm producers in eight...

By JUDITH NAMUTOWE – WOODGATE Holdings Limited has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Wegh Group, an Italian company which will see the two establish a railway sleeper factory in Zambia. The factory is earmarked...

By KENNNEDY MUPESENI – ZAMBIA National Farmers’ Union (ZNFU) wants Government to impose 25 per cent Export Tax on stock feeds to encourage value addition in the agriculture. In their proposal to the Ministry of...

By JUDITH NAMUTOWE – THE construction of the Zambia Tanzania Kenya (ZTK) power interconnector is underway in the various sections of the identified sites for the power lines in the three countries. In a recent...

By JUDITH NAMUTOWE – ZAMTEL at the weekend launched a promotion dubbed Nonka Nonka, that will see one of their mobile subscribers win a brand new tipper truck valued at K600,000. The promotion includes daily...

HAVE you lately tasted nshima made from Superior Miling’s mealile roller meal? If not, please try it and you will completely abandon the breakfast mealie meals. Those who have sampled a meal made from mealile...

By KENNEDY MUPESENI – A FRENCH pharmaceutical giant plans to establish a US$15 million pharmaceutical manufacturing plant and will start distributing products while setting up the plant in the country. Pharma Development president Mario Giron...

By JUDITH NAMUTOWE – LIQUIFIED petroleum gas (LPG) exporters in South Africa and East Africa have started rationing the commodity because of the growing demand in the region. Oxyzam Limited chief executive officer Karthi Keyan...

By CHATULA KANGALI – MOST African countries that today are considered low-income will transition to middle-income within 15 years, and almost all of them will become middle-income countries by 2050. This is according to the...