By JAMES MUYANWA – ECOBANK Zambia, a member of a Pan-African bank, has this year become the 12th biggest bank in the country in terms of assets and other benchmarks. The bank, which was opened...

By MAIMBOLWA MULIKELELA – NEELKANTH Cable Zambia Limited, a new cable manufacturing company, will be commissioned in January 2016 at a cost of around US$17 million. Neelkanth Group representative, Gopal Kedia said the firm had...

By CHATULA KANGALI – Government has said the process of setting up four temporary diesel plants for electricity generation to mitigate the current deficit the country is facing has reached procurement stage. Energy and Water...

By CHATULA KANGALI – TWO British firms have expressed interest to set up two 300-megawatt coal-powered plants on the Copperbelt and Southern Province. One thermal power plant would be located in Ndola, while the other...

IN two days’ time we are crossing into a new year. In the midst of a hype of activities going on, I wish to end the 2015 episode on this platform by encouraging readers to...

AS we conclude this year, I have decided to use an abridged version of an article which we featured on January 14, this year. This was less than a week before the Presidential elections. I...

LAST week, we looked at how businesses can grow by making use of the stock exchange market. Today, we will look at how the stock exchange operates and how individuals and institutional investors can carry...

A MANAGER at one of the internet cafés in the central business district of Lusaka, complained to me that business sales in the month of December, has drastically gone down and that the business owner...

By KENNEDY MUPESENI – THE Governments of Zambia and Angola have commenced the development of a One-Stop-Shop border facility on either side of the Rivungo Canal in Shang’ombo District of Western Province. Construction of the...

By JUDITH NAMUTOWE  – THE Zambia National Association for Saw millers (ZNAS) has threatened to repossess over 100 plots that have been lying idle in the Lufwanyama District cluster. ZNAS president William Bwalya said the...