THIS week I will anchor the column on President Edgar Lungu’s speech when he opened the fifth session of the 11th National Assembly because of the salient points he raised. The speech rested on an...

By SYLVIA MWEETWA – THE fight against early marriages in Central Province received a boost when the First Lady Esther Lungu visited the area recently. Ms Lungu who was on tour of Itezhi-tezhi, Mumbwa and...

By HUMPHREY NKONDE – President Edgar Lungu emphasised the revitalisation of the Zambia Air Services Training Institute (ZASTI) when he addressed the National Assembly on September 18, 2015. His Government’s resolve to make ZASTI more...

By JULIUS PHIRI – EARLY this year maize production was forecast to decrease to 2,618,221 tonnes from 3,350,671 tonnes, a reduction of 21.86 per cent. The national average yield rate for maize dropped from 2.36...

IN the words of President Edgar Lungu when he opened Parliament last week, Zambia remains committed to the attainment of the Vision 2030 of becoming a prosperous middle-income nation. To understand this concept, one needs...

First Quantum Minerals does not merely watch challenges in communities flow along like water in a river, but opens its hands to offer positive solutions through its robust Corporate Social Responsibility Programme which recently ventured...

First Quantum Minerals does not merely watch challenges in communities flow along like water in a river, but opens its hands to offer positive solutions through its robust Corporate Social Responsibility Programme which recently ventured...

By NORMA SIAME – FROM selling roasted cassava and brewing moonshine, Mansa-based business executive Barbara Chilufya has dragged herself from being a charity case poster-child to a highly respected business person. Widely known as Bana...

By CHRISTINE MWAABA – IMAGINE the feeling of being mistaken for a security officer when in fact you are reporting for teaching practice at a high school. This is what Ray Banda had to go...

By JOWIT SALUSEKI – AFRICA’s agricultural image is normally associated with small-scale, hand hoe, rain-fed, poor seed varieties and inaccessibility to markets. Small-scale farmers on the continent continue to face many hardships despite the huge...