By JUDITH NAMUTOWE – AN energy expert has challenged Zesco to take a bold step to bring solar power plants into the grid as part of the immediate solution to the power deficit Zambia is...

By HELEN ZULU – ABOUT four million jobs will be lost if the tobacco industry is pushed out of business as proposed by the World Health Organisation (WHO), the International Tobacco Growers’ Association (ITGA) has...

By KENNEDY MUPESENI – KITWE’s Nkana Mall developer has bemoaned the delay by the Zambia Revenue Authority (ZRA) in clearing construction materials which has pushed completion schedule to November this year. The mall is being...

A RADIO station in Lusaka must have tagged at the emotions of many Zambians, especially job seekers, when it recently discussed the troublesome subject of nepotism. Nepotism, according to the Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary, 7th...

AT about 400 BC the celebrated Chinese military strategist Sun Tzu wrote that ‘In war, the way to avoid what is strong is to strike what is weak.’ Business continues to borrow a lot of...

By CHATULA KANGALI KAPIRI Glass Manufacturing (KGM) Limited, which was closed in 1998 after being privitised in 1995, will soon resume operations following the shareholder’s decision to raise working capital. The shareholder was currently raising...

By STANSLOUS NGOSA – PRUDENTIAL Plc, one of the world’s oldest insurers has started operating in Zambia. The establishment of the business undertaking follows the acquisition of Professional Life Assurance by Prudential last month and...

By HELEN ZULU – THE Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) has expressed concern with the low level of intra-regional trade in the region which is currently below 10 per cent. COMESA secretary...

By KENNEDY MUPESENI – BOARD Meb Investment Limited, a sole distributor of wood processing machinery manufactured and distributed by Wood Mizer Group in Zambia, has called for a restriction in the export of raw timber...

THE Zambian textile and garment sub sector has the capacity to contribute immeasurably to the economic development of the country if well harnessed. Being labour intensive, it has the potential to greatly contribute to employment...