By CLAVER MUTINTA – BARCLAYS Bank has invested more than K25 million in Information and Communications Technology (ICT) to reach out to more customers who are financially excluded. Managing Director Mizinga Melu said the investment...

By KENNEDY MUPESENI – THE Zambia Revenue Authority (ZRA) is aggressively pursuing local Information Communication Technology (ICT) solutions to reduce its K100 million annual ICT expenditure on foreign firms. The tax man has since inked...

By REBECCA MUSHOTA – ZAMBIA’S High Commissioner to the United Kingdom (UK) Muyeba Chikonde has called on the Zambian business community in the diaspora to unite and establish a diaspora bond to raise capital for...

By JAMES KUNDA – JUSTICE Minister Given Lubinda has challenged United Party for National Development (UPND) president Hakainde Hichilema to withdraw a statement depicting the duo holding a planned meeting and agreeing that Government subscribes...

ELLEN TEMBO in Kafue Gorge – WORKS at the USD2.1 million Kafue Gorge lower hydropower plant project works have covered 80 per cent and the whole project is expected to be completed soon, Zesco managing...

The financial troubles at Times Printpak, better known by its flagship product, the Times of Zambia, are among the most well-known of the longest surviving SOEs in this country. The company has been in a...

By STEPHANIE KUNDA – ZAMBIAN health authorities will soon impose restriction on the sale of cough syrups containing the highly-addictive substance known as a codeine, following in the footsteps of several other African countries. The...

By STEPHANIE KUNDA  – THE Industrial Development Corporation (IDC) has announced that staff at Times Printpak Zambia Limited will be paid after resources are made available for IDC at the end of June. IDC public...

By DOROTHY CHISI – THE National Biosafety Authority (NBA) has approved another HIV vaccine clinical trial for the prevention of HIV-1 infection in women. NBA chief executive officer Luckson Tonga said the phase-two trial, which...

By JAMES KUNDA – The United Party for National Development (UPND) was the stand-out absentee as the long awaited political dialogue process commenced under the auspices of the Zambia Centre for Interparty Dialogue (ZCID), with...