By BEN PHIRI- Zambia’s macro-economic performance over the last decade has not skipped the attention of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) which has rated the country as one of Africa’s fastest growing economies. The last...

UNLESS you go in person and gaze on the lake into the horizon, it is difficult to envisage how the water meets the sky. But this is the meaning of Bangweulu ‘the place where the...

IN AN economy where market forces are sensitive and swiftly responsive to any major economic statement and positive occurrence, the prices of mealie-meal could have this week started coming down. The same way factors like...

In my previous articles, I have been religiously stressing the importance of marketing in almost every discipline. I have been pointing out that there is no programme, project, activity, business or organisation that can be...

Today, I profile a 33-year-old young entrepreneur with a bulldozing spirit which has propelled him to become a business executive with a purpose of determination which has made him to succeed against all odds. Mike...

By MAIMBOLWA MULIKELELA- GOOD Time Steel Company Zambia Limited will invest about US$70 million in setting up a modern smelting plant this year to double its production capacity to 100,000 tonnes per annum. Company deputy...

IT is pleasing to hear reports that the Government will soon launch the 2014/2015 Farmer Input Support Programme (FISP) distribution exercise. This is as it should be to end the perennial late delivery of fertiliser...

By JUDITH NAMUTOWE- THE Africa Development Bank (AfDB) is undertaking a feasibility study on the expansion of port facilities at Mpulungu Harbour in Zambia and Bujumbura in Burundi. And AfDB will finance the linking of...

By MAIMBOLWA MULIKELELA – THE Kwacha was under pressure most of last week trading on the back foot against the dollar, weighed down by strong interbank and corporate demand to see it touch an intraday...

By JUDITH NAMUTOWE – FIRST Quantum Minerals (FQM), the owner of Kansanshi copper mine in Solwezi, recorded a 43 per cent rise in copper production during the first quarter ended March 31 2014. The increase...