By KENNEDY MUPESENI – THE Auditor General’s office is currently working with the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) to train officers to effectively audit mining companies in the country, Auditor General Anna Chifungula has said....

By JUDITH NAMUTOWE – WORKS on the Kampundu cluster project for saw-millers in Lufwanyama District on the Copperbelt have stalled due to lack of power supply. Zambia National Association for Saw-millers (ZNAS) has opened up...

By KENNEDY MUPESENI – FUTURE-Search Zambia has since inception in 1995 trained more than 70,000 retired and serving employees in entrepreneurial skills countrywide. The organisation was instituted by the Zambian Government to train those leaving...

By MAIMBOLWA MULIKELELA – PROFLIGHT Zambia and mobile money transfer company Zoona Money have signed a payment agreement which will facilitate for travellers using the airline to make ticket payments through Zoona’s 500 outlets spread...

By KENNEDY MUPESENI – SCIROCCO Enterprises Limited the owners of Oriental Quarries and Amaka Cement plan to invest US$160 million in establishing a cement manufacturing plant in Lusaka. The plant would have the capacity to...

THE rule on the road is that whoever causes an accident is liable for all resultant damages or injuries and is usually charged for either the offense of causing an accident by careless or dangerous...

HAVING entered the second month of this new-year, I would like to revisit the 2015 National Budget which took effect some 35 days ago. To effectively do that, I will focus on the treasury brief...

By MAIMBOLWA MULIKELELA – OVER the last decade, Zambia has enjoyed substantial economic growth but much of this growth has not benefited the rural poor, especially smallholder farmers who are mostly women and depend on...

By MAIMBOLWA MULIKELELA – THE Zambia Development Agency (ZDA) and the Zambia Information and Communication Technology (ZICTA) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to attract increased investment in Information Communication Technology (ICT). The MoU...

By MAIMBOLWA MULIKELELA – ZAMBIA’S annual inflation for January 2015 stands at 7.7 from the 7.9 per cent recorded in December 2014, the Central Statistical Office (CSO) has said. This means on average prices increased...