PRESIDENT Edgar Lungu’s recent announcement of a further increase in the maize floor price from the K70 set by the Food Reserve Agency (FRA) to K75 deserves kudos. FRA recently announced it would start buying...

WHAT better news can there be at a time like now than that Barclays Bank Zambia Plc has financed Maamba Collieries Limited (MCL)’s 300 megawatts coal fired power plant at a cost of US$828 million....

THERE is urgent need for the Minister of Chiefs and Traditional Affairs to heed President Edgar Lungu’s timely directive to help resolve the dispute that has engulfed the Lundas and Luvales of North-Western Province, which...

WE agree with President Edgar Lungu that presidential trips undertaken abroad are of great benefit to the country since they provide an opportunity to market Zambia at a global level. President Lungu said because of...

WE hail President Edgar Lungu’s directive to the newly-appointed Defence Minister Richwell Siamunene to ignore baseless criticism and concentrate on transforming the operations of the defence forces. This is in view of numerous armchair critics...

GOVERNMENT should be applauded for taking a bold step to cancel prospective mining licence to VEN Mining of Katoka Mema Mine and subsequently handing it over to the community of Kasempa in North-Western Province. Government’s...

A NATION that does not value its women is likely to lag behind in development, United States of America President Barack Obama recently observed when he visited Kenya. Indeed governments, civil society and corporate institutions...

THE trend obtaining currently of contractors failing to execute works on schedule is beginning to give an impression that things are deteriorating in the country. Not so because of poor Government policies, but because of...

IT is gratifying to learn that the Zambia Environmental Management Agency (ZEMA) is working with the Forestry Department in a bid to control charcoal burning before the forests gets depleted. This is a timely intervention....

EVERYTIME there are rumours of job losses or shutdowns in the mining sector, an atmosphere of despair is created. This is because the mining sector contributes massively to employment creation and the economy of the...