ENERGY Minister Peter Kapala has announced that ZESCO will implement a load management regime of up to six hours daily starting on December 15, this year. Kapala says a load shedding schedule will be published...

DEVELOPMENT Bank of Zambia (DBZ) board chairperson Noel Nkoma says the bank is targeting to secure not less than $50 million for lending next year. In an interview, Nkoma, however, said the bank was currently...

FINANCE and National Planning Minister Dr Situmbeko Musokotwane says government and citizens are depending on the private sector to create meaningful jobs that will reduce poverty levels. Speaking at a sensitisation workshop on leveraging private...

THE Ndola High Court has sentenced a 26-year-old man to 10 years imprisonment with hard labour for attempting to steal a Zesco cable after puncturing it. In a statement, Zesco Limited Corporate Affairs stated that...

POLICE in Lusaka have shot dead a 32-year-old man commonly known as Fresher, believed to have been behind a spate of aggravated robberies involving vehicles and attacks on Yango drivers. In a statement, Wednesday, Deputy...

ENERGY Regulation Board chairperson Reynolds Bowa says no one in Chipata can be faulted for the recent fuel contamination because the commodity was already contaminated when it was delivered. Earlier this month, Bowa said ERB...

THE Zambia Information and Communications Technology Authority (ZICTA) says the country’s fourth mobile network operator Beeline Telecom, is expected to commence operations on January 31, 2023. The authority says Beeline has the financial capability to...

THE Securities (Amendment) Bill passed through the Second Reading stage on Thursday, after Finance and National Planning Minister Dr Situmbeko Musokotwane refused to withdraw it. The parliamentary committee for planning and budgeting rejected the Securities...

THE parliamentary committee for planning and budgeting has rejected the Securities Amendment Bill on grounds that it contains provisions that maybe detrimental to the proper functioning of capital markets by expanding the Commission’s powers while...

ECONOMIST Dr Grieve Chelwa says President Hakainde Hichilema is a better manager of the economy compared to his predecessor. And Dr Chelwa says citizens hold President Hichilema to a higher moral standard, hence it’s only...