By JAMES KUNDA – The Government will maintain the current floor price of K70 per 50 kilogramme bag of maize to help stabilise mealie-meal retail prices. Agriculture deputy minister Greyford Monde said if Government increased...

By JUDITH NAMUTOWE – THE Africa Development Bank (AfDB) has approved a four-year US$125 million Africa Small and Medium Enterprises (SME) programme. This is combined with a US$3.98 million technical assistance package granted by the...

By JAMES KUNDA – AIRTEL Networks Zambia has reimbursed all the 28,000 customers whose talk time was erroneously deducted during a network system upgrade recently, managing director Charity Lumpa has disclosed. Ms Lumpa said yesterday...

By JAMES KUNDA – THE Private Sector Development Association (PSDA) has said there is need for Government to audit the use of both Eurobonds that Zambia has issued on the international market, if the country...

By MAIMBOLWA MULIKELELA – THE United Bank for Africa (UBA) has projected to double its clientele to 12,000 from 6,000 this year as a result of the various electronic banking platform embarked on. UBA Zambia...

By JAMES KUNDA- THE African Development Bank (AfDB) has cautioned Government against over spending on Farmer Input Support Programme (FISP) and maize purchases to minimise Budget overruns. AfDB said Government should  monitor spending on FISP...

By JAMES KUNDA- THE Lumwana Mine in Solwezi has invested US$400,000 into a four-year community agriculture programme expected to benefit 1,000 small-scale farmers in North-Western Province. Community Relations superintendent Harrington Kanema said in Ndola that...

By JUDITH NAMUTOWE- SOLWEZI Municipal Council (SMC) has received more than K30 million from mining companies for various developmental activities in the district. Solwezi Town Clerk Ronald Daka said the council received about K30.9 million...

By MAIMBOLWA MULIKELELA
 – ZAMBIA Railways Limited (ZRL) and Tanzania Zambia Railway Authority
(TAZARA) have entered into an agreement to run a joint passenger route
from Kitwe to Nakonde via Kapiri Mposhi. ZRL chief executive officer Muyenga...

By JUDITH NAMUTOWE
 – THE Zambia Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative (ZEITI) should
be timely releasing annual reports instead of the current three-year
lag. North-western Province Permanent Secretary Amos Malupenga said the
ZEITI should consider updating its annual reports...