By DR FRANCIS MANGENI – A WORLD Bank report titled,‘Defragmenting Africa’ describes Africa’s borders as thick. This thickness is attributed to the ‘mountains’ of documents that exporters and importers brave in trading in Africa. Similarly,...

AS I break off for my annual vacation, I have decided to have a glance at the national economic performance recorded this far in comparison with the annual macro-economic targets for 2014. Just to pep...

By JUDITH NAMUTOWE – THE Tourism Council of Zambia (TCZ) has said the yellow certificate fever demand by South African authorities for people coming from Zambia has impacted negatively on tourism arrival in the country....

By JAMES KUNDA – THE Zambia National Farmers Union (ZNFU) has said maize and its products should be zero rated for Value Added Tax (VAT) purposes to make the production of the staple food competitive...

By REBECCCA MUSHOTA – ECOBANK Zambia has opened a branch in Ndola under its ambitious expansion programme. Ecobank managing director Jolone Okorodudu said the opening of the branch in Ndola was in line with the...

By JUDITH NAMUTOWE – THE Dairy Association of Zambia (DAZ) has appealed to the Government to consider zero-rating milk products for value added tax in 2015 National Budget. DAZ executive manager Jeremiah Kasalo said in...

By MAIMBOLWA MULIKELELA – A LOCAL shopping centre manager has challenged the training institutions to introduce a Diploma programme that will train shopping centre managers in Zambia. Arcades Shopping Centre manager Patrick Nsama said since...

THERE have been incessant calls for the Bank of Zambia (BoZ) to help reduce the lending interest rates being charged by the commercial banks and other financial lending institutions in the country. The BoZ should...

By BUSINESS REPORTER – MORE than 1000 companies may be de-registered by the Patents and Companies Registration Agency (PACRA) if they fail to comply with the law on submission of annual returns in the next...

By MAIMBOLWA MULIKELELA and HELLEN ZULU- THE Citizens Economic Empowerment Commission (CEEC) has disbursed K40.379 million to 801 projects as at June 30, 2014, against the approved K98.148 million for 1,526 projects. CEEC head of...