A FEW years ago, the Government directed the Road Development Agency (RDA) to ensure that at least 20 per cent of all subcontracted road works are given to firms with majority Zambian ownership interest. Under...

THE continued fall of the Zambian currency, Kwacha is as a result of several external factors that govern the world economy. Understanding the dynamics behind such occurances will clear the blame and in a way...

ANYTHING coming from the Office of the President and the Government can be politicised with gross distortions deliberately meant to damage the image of these two institutions. When President Edgar Lungu visited Siavonga residents in...

WE take our hats off to Barclays Bank and the Junior Achievement Zambia over their decision to hold a training workshop for Zambia national team soccer players on the importance of investing their money well...

DURING the campaigns for the January 20, 2015 presidential election, then Patriotic Front (PF) candidate, Edgar Lungu, promised to set up milling plants closer to where maize and other crops are produced. President Lungu said...

IT is an undeniable fact that Zambia has a serious housing deficit and the less privileged in society are the most affected. As a result of this housing deficit, more than half of the urban...

THE purchasing of solar panels and gensets for hospitals and clinics countrywide is a clear sign that the Government is not resting on its laurels concerning load-shedding in the country. These are indicators that the...

PRESIDENT Edgar Lungu’s recent announcement of a further increase in the maize floor price from the K70 set by the Food Reserve Agency (FRA) to K75 deserves kudos. FRA recently announced it would start buying...

WHAT better news can there be at a time like now than that Barclays Bank Zambia Plc has financed Maamba Collieries Limited (MCL)’s 300 megawatts coal fired power plant at a cost of US$828 million....

THERE is urgent need for the Minister of Chiefs and Traditional Affairs to heed President Edgar Lungu’s timely directive to help resolve the dispute that has engulfed the Lundas and Luvales of North-Western Province, which...